This game is now under new management
4 years ago
United States

Hi I'm Andy and I recently acquired this leaderboard. Looking forward to cleaning up this game to make it better than ever!

I verified all pending runs the previous moderator never got to.

Quick reminder for everyone when submitting times: Don't forget to add a "0" after your milliseconds. If your lap time was 57"50, for example, please input that as 57s and 500ms. If you inputted the milliseconds as 50ms, your time would show up as 57s and 050ms. If you forget, though, don't worry! I will be checking it anyway :]

I urge you to check out Daniel Yamnitz on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAZpKDAvDVo6SKrFHwsa4Dg

He is one of the top players of this game, and perhaps the best recorded player ever.

Let me know if you have any questions about the game, or if you have more information about game differences, because I am still learning myself.

-Andy

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United States

This leaderboard is meant to be for fun and for casual players. The official Pole Position leaderboard is available on Twin Galaxies website.

We don't have to just limit ourselves to the qualifying lap category. We can add as many silly categories as you can think of! Here are some suggestions.

  • Fastest crash
  • Crash into every sign
  • Low gear only
  • Full race instead of only the qualifying lap

If you have an idea for a silly category you want to run, or want to run one of these listed above, you can either message me and ask about it, or just submit one and put in the run description what you want the run to be. If I like the idea, I will add it!

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United States

@danielr The ZXSpectrum version is now under a separate board from the Arcade version, as is the Atari 2600 version. I made this change to prevent unfair comparisons of different versions of the game. Please submit runs to as many categories as you would like!

@danielr Thanks for showing me this video. I'm open to learning as much about this game as possible.

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Portugal

Very happy to see a proper change and moderation on this game :D It's also great to see new and creative leaderboards for this game, it's a fantastic way to give it replayability and life.

I also wanted to add that I'm making an internship project for the evolution of racing and sim racing games, and this is included as one of the first games featuring Formula 1, so I'll be happy to contribute footage for it, as we'll probably will do some runs on the exposition to come.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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United States

@NightEagle13000 Thanks for the feedback. Please submit as many runs as you would like. If you come up with any ideas for more categories, you can submit those as well.

United States

I am glad you think so. I thought it was unfair to compare different versions of the game against each other.

In the future, we can also add a Atari 5200, Commodore 64, or Intellivision board if anyone ever submits those.

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