Pole Position
The very first racing game with the rear perspective camera and track based on real life.
Pole Position is an arcade developed by Namco, released 16 September 1982 on Atari 5200, Intellivision, Vectrex and Arcade. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Pole Position is
Pole Position is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1982. It was published by Atari. It is available on Atari 5200, Intellivision, Vectrex, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20, DOS, Texas Instruments TI-99 and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
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 second of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. It arrived 3 years after Monaco GP. The next entry was Pole Position in 1983. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Grand Prix 3 at 100.
How it was received
Pole Position holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pole Position yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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Quick answers
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