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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.
The analysis highlights Legacy, Reception and Development as prominent areas in the source structure around Pole Position.
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The extracted context around Pole Position shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Pole Position → Arcade, Arcade Archives, Bill Loguce, Commodore International, Commodore Japan, Electronic Games, Ever, Flux, Fuji Speedway, Hamster Corporation, IGN's, In, Japan, July, Matt Barton, Microsoft Return, Most Influential Racing Games, Namco, Namco Museum, Nintendo Switch Another extracted example is Pole Position → Based, Canon, Development, F-1, Fuji Speedway, Galaxian, He, Kazunori Sawano, Marlboro, Masaya Nakamura, Music, Namco, Namco's, Nobuyuki Ohnogi, Okamoto, Osugi, Pac-Man, Pepsi, Sawano, Shinichiro Okamoto. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 148 structured relationships around Pole Position. Examples in this analysis include Pole Position → Composers → Nobuyuki Ohnogi Yuriko Keino and Pole Position → Designers → Kazunori Sawano Sho Osugi Shinichiro Okamoto. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| 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 |
The concept neighborhoods around Pole Position bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Position, Racing and Games. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Pole Position, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Pole Position with Reception. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Pole Position to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Legacy, Reception & Development, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Pole Position · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout