Pole Position
A port of the arcade game to the Atari 2600 that reduces the graphical fidelity and removes the speech, fitting the game into only 8 Kilobytes.
Pole Position is an arcade developed by Namco, released 31 December 1983 on Atari 2600.
What Pole Position is
Pole Position is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1983. It was published by Atari. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Formula 1 series
Pole Position is the third of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. It arrived a year after Pole Position. The next entry was Formula 1 Simulator in 1984.
What it launched against
Pole Position launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac and Zoo Keeper.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, Zoo Keeper.
Official trailer
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