Pole Position
Studios
Developer — Namco
Publishers — Atari, INTV Corporation, Thunder Mountain, GCE
Details
Platforms — DOS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari 5200, Intellivision, BBC Microcomputer System, Vectrex, Commodore VIC-20, Texas Instruments TI-99
Genres — Racing, Sport, Arcade, Action
Modes — Single player
Perspective — Third person
Pole Position ranks #4,916 overall and #210 among racing games — top 20% of all ranked titles. Of the 91 games released in 1982, only six outrank it. Hovers within reach of its all-time peak of #4,913, reached 5 weeks ago.
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