Power Drome

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Complete in box: the disc, the manual and the original case, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

No missiles, no mines, no shields: Powerdrome strips the futuristic racer down to speed, nerve and racing line. Argonaut's 2004 game is a remake of Michael Powell's 1988 Powerdrome, a cult home-computer racer that put jet-powered bikes called blades on closed circuits years before F-Zero and Wipeout turned anti-gravity racing into a genre, and Powell himself was involved in the new version.

Without weapons to bail you out, everything comes down to driving cleanly. A boost meter fills while you keep your blade running flat out without clipping walls or rivals, and once full it banks as one of three stored specials you can spend on a burst of acceleration or on repairing damage. Grind through corners and you will be patching your blade instead of boosting it, so the fastest laps are the tidy ones. Courses run from a neon-lit city to swampy sludge pools and a beachfront water course, raced against a strange field of mechanized rival pilots.

Championship mode unlocks extra tracks, racers and features as you climb, alongside single races, time trials and split-screen head-to-heads. Reviews split sharply at the time, with some critics praising its speed and purity and others finding it too punishing, and that divide is a big part of its appeal now: this is a racer that asks you to learn it.

Mud Duck Productions published it in North America, and it was among the final games from Argonaut, the studio behind the Super FX chip and co-developer of Star Fox, before it closed later in 2004. That makes it an overlooked corner of the PS2 racing library and a sharp pick for Wipeout and F-Zero players curious about the genre's earliest roots.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2004
Publisher
Mud Duck Productions
Developer
Argonaut Games
Players
Single player
About the game

Powerdrome is a futuristic racing game by Michael Powell. Players race jet-engined, anti-gravity bikes called 'blades' around closed tracks; in a manner followed by games such as F-Zero and Wipeout.

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