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Pole Position is a 1982 racing video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released by Atari, Inc. in North America. It was developed as a successor of Namco's earlier arcade racing electro-mechanical games, like F-1 (1976), whose designer Sho Osugi worked on Pole Position.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pole Position | Composers | Nobuyuki Ohnogi Yuriko Keino | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Designers | Kazunori Sawano Sho Osugi Shinichiro Okamoto | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Developer | Namco | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Genre | Racing | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Mode | Single-player | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Platform | Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Vectrex, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, TI-99/4A, BBC Micro, Intellivision, MS-DOS, mobile phone | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Programmer | Koichi Tashiro | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Publishers | JP/EU: Namco | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Publishers | NA/FRA: Atari, Inc. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | ArcadeJP: September 16, 1982NA: November 30, 1982EU: Late 1982 2600August 1983 5200September 1983 Atari 8-bitOctober 1983 VectrexNovember 1983 VIC-20EU: 1983NA: Early 1984 ZX Sp… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | JP: September 16, 1982 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | NA: November 30, 1982 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | EU: Late 1982 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | August 1983 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | September 1983 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | October 1983 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | November 1983 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | EU: 1983 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | NA: Early 1984 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | UK: April 1984 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | NA: May 1984 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | UK: March 1985 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | UK: November 1984 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | March 1988 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Release | 1988 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | Series | Pole Position | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pole Position | is a | 1982 racing video game developed and published by Namco for arcades | 0.90 | text |
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