What a difference 30 years makes...

God it's cruel, this. But while we realise that Pole Position was a helluva game way back when, now all we can do is look at it with faintly-disguised discomfort, like a toddler who's tasted sugar and is now unable to enjoy anything without it. And our sugar is Formula One Championship Edition. Er... well, sort of like that.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.