Pole Position VIC-20

Ahh another awesome conversion on the VIC20, here we can see my incredible driving skillzorz LOL. It's an amazing conversion though :o)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Pole
• Position
• VIC20

[tsuihark]

@farerse Yeah, why didn't they use the VIC-20's 3D accellerator for the graphics?

[harleykman]

In some ways this is better than the Atari VCS/ 2600 game console,

and yet in others it's really very poor. Like the weird colors. The Atari game console had a palette of 128 and those extra colors really improve the appearance.

[farerse]

@ReelSmartGameplay im not sure what u replied to!

[ReelSmartGameplay]

@farerse :lol..on a 42"tv that would be suicide.good laugh though.

[MrRJBowman]

The VIC-20 was never really pushed to its full potential because the C64 so successfully replaced it. The VCS, on the other hand, was pushed to new limits by hundreds of programmers for the better part of a decade. Search for "VIC-20 demoscene" if you want to see what the machine was really capable of doing.

[thedarkdragon735]

@tsuihark congradulations, now i gotta search for farerse's comment...>:(

[EgoShredder]

@MadCommodore

One of my friends had a VIC 20 which he tried to keep a secret but failed; he was constantly having the pi** taken out of him for owning that micro. He said he wished his parents had bought him a better micro, and a ZX Spectrum in particular. I think they did in the end but it was a Spectrum 16K! Poor lad, he really suffered during the home micro era! I personally had a ZX Spectrum 48K, then a +. After that a Amstrad CPC464 and finally a Atari STE.

[inphanta]

The explosion noise is CRUSTY as hell!

[MadCommodore]

@harleykman What the VCS did have was the most talented programmers in the world. That was the best thing....stuff like Solaris should be impossible on the VCS hardware.

[MadCommodore]

@harleykman

VCS had large pallet and couldn't use it in 'sprites' or anywhere on the screen background graphics just like the Atari 400/800 (the opposite to the C64, king of compromise...enough colours...all on screen anywhere per char block). VCS had monochromatic sprites, horizontal raster type colour splits and bugger all else really. VIC 20 had limited colours but had character memory map for bitmap AND colour placement as per C64 but a low resolution like the VCS.

[MadCommodore]

@farerse well the Colecovision has a steering wheel, and that was the Rolls Royce of the console world at the time ;o)

Not even the arcade version of Pole Position had force feedback on the wheel, more like a plate on a chopstick as far as realism goes!

And for a machine costing a few bucks more than the ZX81 it has a far superior racing game!

[farerse]

@MadCommodore lol does this game have support for force feedback wheel?? that would rox !