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Are You Ready for the Most Exciting Era of Racing Games in 40 Years? Sep 30th 2013, 11:50, by Luke Reilly 40 years. That's how long we've been playing racing games. That's seven US presidents, or one-and-a-bit Cameroonian ones. We've been trying to coerce blobs of pixels and/or polygons around the guts of our consoles and computers for four decades. 1973. That's the year we realised we could use the power of computer processing to race things against other things. The first things were space ships because of course they were. Space Race was only the second arcade game published by Atari (the first was Pong). It was released in July, 1973 and featured a pair of space ships racing through a cloud of dandruff flecks masquerading as meteors. Shaped like what you'd get if you gave a four-year-old a pointed stick and two-and-a-half seconds to draw a rocket, Space Race's jagged interstellar shuttles nonetheless kickstarted a love affair with piloting virtual vehicles through some form of 2D- or 3D-space faster than the jerk next to you. Continue reading… Media files: F1-2013-610x305.jpg (image/jpeg)

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