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Pole Position

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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Genre
Racing
Composers
Nobuyuki Ohnogi Yuriko Keino
Designers
Kazunori Sawano Sho Osugi Shinichiro Okamoto
Developer
Namco
Mode
Single-player
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

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Pole Position

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples148
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Pole Position

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related to Legacy · 31
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
related to Development · 25
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
related to Sales · 23
Pole Position → AMOA, Amusement, August, December, Game Machine, In, In Europe, In Japan, Internationally, It, March, May, Music Operators Association, North America, November, October, On, RePlay, Several, United States
related to Release · 19
Pole Position → After, AMOA, Amusement, Atari, Both, Chicago's, Europe, Inc, It, Japan, Music Operators Association, Namco, Namco's, North America, North American, November, Osugi, September, The
related to Critical reception · 18
Pole Position → AMOA, Arcade Award, Coin-Op Game, Computer, Computer Games, Electronic Games, Formula One, InfoWorld, It, North American, Pole Position's, Sega's Turbo, They, Turbo, Turbo Deluxe, Upon, Video Games, Year
Release · 16
Pole Position → 1988, 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…, August 1983, EU: 1983, EU: Late 1982, JP: September 16, 1982, March 1988, NA: Early 1984, NA: May 1984, NA: November 30, 1982, November 1983, October 1983, September 1983, UK: April 1984, UK: March 1985, UK: November 1984
Publishers · 2
Pole Position → JP/EU: Namco, NA/FRA: Atari, Inc.
related to External links · 2
Pole Position → Killer List, Videogames
Composers · 1
Pole Position → Nobuyuki Ohnogi Yuriko Keino
Designers · 1
Pole Position → Kazunori Sawano Sho Osugi Shinichiro Okamoto

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game pole position arcade games racing 1983 video time one atari driving race highest-grossing namco track north 1982 player also

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Pole PositionComposersNobuyuki Ohnogi Yuriko Keino1.00infobox
Pole PositionDesignersKazunori Sawano Sho Osugi Shinichiro Okamoto1.00infobox
Pole PositionDeveloperNamco1.00infobox
Pole PositionGenreRacing1.00infobox
Pole PositionModeSingle-player1.00infobox
Pole PositionPlatformAtari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Vectrex, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, TI-99/4A, BBC Micro, Intellivision, MS-DOS, mobile phone1.00infobox
Pole PositionProgrammerKoichi Tashiro1.00infobox
Pole PositionPublishersJP/EU: Namco1.00infobox
Pole PositionPublishersNA/FRA: Atari, Inc.1.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseArcadeJP: 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…1.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseJP: September 16, 19821.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseNA: November 30, 19821.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseEU: Late 19821.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseAugust 19831.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseSeptember 19831.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseOctober 19831.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseNovember 19831.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseEU: 19831.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseNA: Early 19841.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseUK: April 19841.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseNA: May 19841.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseUK: March 19851.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseUK: November 19841.00infobox
Pole PositionReleaseMarch 19881.00infobox
Pole PositionRelease19881.00infobox
Pole PositionSeriesPole Position1.00infobox
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