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Atari Year: 1982 Class: Wide Release Genre: Racing Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 1 Gameplay: Single Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) |
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Pole Position DescriptionRace your Indy car around the Fuji course before the timer runs out. The first run is the qualifying lap and your starting position is determined by your completion time. Avoid road hazards and other cars as you drive, earning extra time for each completed lap.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe sitdown version of the game uses separate accelerator and brake pedals while the upright only uses a single pedal.Game IntroductionPrepare to qualify! A sophisticated game for its day, with scaleable foreground objects and speech. Keep an eye out for the billboards! Also famous for burning the power input edge connectors and finger contacts on the PCB. Several custom integrated circuits.MiscellaneousPole Position was created by Namco Inc. who also manufactured the game for the entire world except for the United States. Aside from the words which are in Japanese found on and in the Namco version, the graphics on the side of the cabinet are basically the same as well as the billboards that are seen throughout the game. Compared to the Atari release, the only differences are the Atari Racing decal on the simulated dashboard and the little blimp that can be seen at the beginning of a race that is marked Atari with the message Prepare To Qualify. In the Namco version, the blimp has no markings on it.CAPS/VAPS Arcade CensusThere are 6,451 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,703 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 60,890 machines (3,615 unique titles).Very Common - There are 186 known instances of this machine owned by Pole Position collectors. Of these, 168 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 16 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. This game ranks a 83 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. Wanted - There are 7 VAPS members currently looking for Pole Position. There is one VAPS member looking for a Pole Position circuit board set. This game ranks a 21 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records. For Sale - There are 15 VAPS members with Pole Position machines for sale. There are 15 VAPS members with extra Pole Position circuit boards for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.
TechnicalThe game uses two Z8002 microprocessors, one Z80 microprocessor and a Namco 6channel stereo PSG for sounds.TriviaThis game was one of the choices presented to BallyMidway from Namco for sublicensing. BallyMidway chose IMappyI while Atari was left with IPole PositionI. IPole PositionI went on to become the biggest game of 1983 number four on httpwww.atarihistory.com30secrets.html .Legacy
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