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Pole Position is considered one of the most important titles from the golden age of arcade video games. It was an evolution of Namco's earlier arcade racing electro-mechanical games, notably F-1 (1976), whose designer Sho Osugi worked on Pole Position. The game was a major commercial success in arcades.
Pole Position II [a] is the sequel to racing simulation game Pole Position, released by Namco for arcades in 1983. As with its predecessor, Namco licensed this game to Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution. Atari Corporation released a port as the pack-in game for its Atari 7800 ProSystem console launch in 1986.
Articles relating to the Pole Position and Final Lap video game series by Namco and their adaptations. The original Pole Position spawned ports, sequels, and a Saturday morning cartoon, although the cartoon has little in common with the game.
Get ready to go back to the 1980s and experience the OG video racing game.
50th Anniversary replaces Galaxian and Pole Position with Pac-Man and Rally-X. This is the first edition of Namco Museum with actual arcade game emulation using the original game ROM images (although voice sounds in Rolling Thunder, sounds for both Pole Position games and Xevious are stored in .wav files). Also, the GameCube version allows the ...
Pole Position: Namco Pole Position: July 1982: Yes Yes No First Namco game to feature 16-bit graphics Super Pac-Man: Namco Super Pac-Man: August 11, 1982: Yes Yes No Official sequel to Pac-Man. Xevious: Namco Galaga December 10, 1982 [11] Yes Yes Yes One of Namco's earliest vertical scrolling shoot 'em up titles. NES version subtitled The ...
Namco prospered during the golden age of arcade video games in the early 1980s, releasing popular titles such as Galaga, Xevious, and Pole Position. Namco entered the home market in 1984 with conversions of its arcade games for the MSX and the Nintendo Family Computer, later expanding to competing platforms, such as the Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx ...
The inclusion of Namco Bandai's Xbox Live Arcade library was also met with praise, and critics said this helped make the collection worth the purchase. [14] [15] [2] Among the Museum games, critics found Dragon Spirit, Pole Position, and Metro-Cross to be some of the standouts.