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Pole Position[ a] is a racing arcade video game released by Namco in 1982. It was licensed to Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution. 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 ...
Pole Position II was later one of the top five highest-grossing arcade games of 1985, [19] and the sixth highest-grossing arcade game of 1986. [20] Gene Lewin of Play Meter magazine reviewed the arcade game, scoring it 9 out of 10. [1] Computer and Video Games reviewed the Atari 7800 version, giving it an 84% score. [21]
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]
Namco Museum Vol. 1 [a] is a 1995 arcade video game compilation developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation. The collection includes seven arcade games developed by the company that were originally released in the 1980s, such as Pac-Man, Galaga and Pole Position. The compilation features a 3D open-world virtual museum that the player ...
Pole Position is the great-grandfather of the Gran Turismo series of games. In arcade cabinet form, it raked in a total of $9.5 million in quarters every week of 1983, from gamers racing a tiny ...
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.
The game was very successful and it spawned an official sequel, Pole Position II, and an unofficial one, Final Lap. After the success of Pole Position, many similar games appeared in arcades (and later ported to home computers) such as TX-1 (1983). During the late 1980s, successful arcade games included Super Sprint, which uses the top view ...
The golden age of arcade video games was the period of rapid growth, technological development, and cultural influence of arcade video games from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The release of Space Invaders in 1978 led to a wave of shoot-'em-up games such as Galaxian and the vector graphics -based Asteroids in 1979, made possible by new ...