Driving & Racing Games · 30

Pole Position made qualifying laps, trackside billboards and a behind-the-car camera part of the early-1980s racing-game vocabulary. The player-facing version of the idea is simple: Early racing cabinets often used real wheels and pedals because the physical control itself was part of the attraction, not merely an input device. Racing games are excellent teachers of humility because the stopwatch has no interest in excuses.