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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. The game established the conventions of the racing game genre and its success inspired numerous imitators.
Pole Position was released in two configurations: a standard upright cabinet and an environmental/cockpit cabinet. Both versions feature a steering wheel and a gear shifter for low and high gears, but the environmental/cockpit cabinet featured both an accelerator and a brake pedal, while the standard upright one only featured an accelerator pedal.
Brian Walker reviewed Pole Position for Games International magazine, and gave it 4 stars out of 5, and stated that "As the track differs each time the replay value of the game is high. There is considerable scope for strategy and for frustrating the plans of others. All in all, a fine game." [1] Pole Position was nominated for the 1988 Spiel ...
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Final Lap [a] is a 1987 racing simulation video game developed and published by Namco. [1] Atari Games published the game in the United States in 1988. It was the first game to run on Namco's then-new System 2 hardware and is a direct successor to Namco's Pole Position (1982) and Pole Position II (1983).
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TX-1 is an arcade racing simulation game developed by Tatsumi and released in 1983. [3] It was licensed to Namco, [4] who in turn licensed it to Atari, Inc. for release in the United States, [4] thus the game is considered a successor to Pole Position and Pole Position II. [4]
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.