You have no idea how much I am diggin what you're saying. Kids will miss out on cartoons on all networks on Saturday morning. CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX. I can't help but feel that my soon to be children have had something taken from them and they're not even here yet.
I'm pretty sure it was a matter of the execs telling the writers, "We bought a license based on an arcade racing game called Pole Position. You basically drive a car around a track until time runs out. See if you can extend that premise to 30 minutes, try to shoe horn it into the generic 80s cartoon formula, and design the car so that we can sell it as toys with crap loads of accessories sold separately."
Dam I forgot about this.... probably didn't last more than one season. What a shame my children will never know what it was like to get up at 6AM on a Saturday morning and watch 5 straight hours of cartoons..... truly sad.
Back then making adaptions of video games were easy.
"So what is pole position about?"
"Well it has cars...and you race them..."
"So whatever I write for this series it basically just has to have cars in it...that race?"
"...I suppose so..."
SpikeRosered 8 months ago
Only their uncle knows!
PoweredButchZ 8 months ago
It's sad.. you get up on Saturdays, turn on NBC and you see paid programming. Is that what we are reduced to?
GregthaBunny 2 years ago
You have no idea how much I am diggin what you're saying. Kids will miss out on cartoons on all networks on Saturday morning. CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX. I can't help but feel that my soon to be children have had something taken from them and they're not even here yet.
RuffRyda25 2 years ago
Saturday morning cartoons MUPHUKAS!!!!!!!! This was my SHIT!!!!!!!
RuffRyda25 2 years ago
Oh my goodness I loved this cartoon.
SincereAgape 2 years ago
It was based off an arcade game.
I'm pretty sure it was a matter of the execs telling the writers, "We bought a license based on an arcade racing game called Pole Position. You basically drive a car around a track until time runs out. See if you can extend that premise to 30 minutes, try to shoe horn it into the generic 80s cartoon formula, and design the car so that we can sell it as toys with crap loads of accessories sold separately."
newguy90 2 years ago
Dam I forgot about this.... probably didn't last more than one season. What a shame my children will never know what it was like to get up at 6AM on a Saturday morning and watch 5 straight hours of cartoons..... truly sad.
GregthaBunny 2 years ago
"Okay, we got a show about kids driving vehicles doing stunts. What do we call it?"
"Uh... Pole Position?"
"BRILLIANT."
VidGamer123 2 years ago
I remember trying to make replicas of these cars out of legos as a kid. I had minimal success at the least.
rang3r34 3 years ago