Arcade Game: Pole Position (1982 Namco/Atari)
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A race/driving game using a color raster-scan video display. The game action takes place at Fuji Speedway in Japan. The country around the speedway consists of green meadows, hills, and snow-capped Mt. Fuji.
This was the world’s first 16-bit arcade game as well as video game powered by a 16-bit processor. Namco was the first company to accomplish this.
Pole Position was the first driving/racing game to be based on a real circuit
Note: The infinite time cheat was used since the time for the middle of the race is too short. The atari version is slightly different than the Namco originally which begins at 6:23.
17.08.2024
I have the Namco Museum for N64. as far as I know the only track is “Namco Circut” and I’ve been playing it since I was a kid. I only just found out in the past year you can shift gears. Is there any way to suck less at this game? those sharp turns always take me right into a sign no matter how hard I try to avoid it
Hand ME another Quarter!!!!!!!!!!! I was never worth a ________ with this game. loved it anyway!!
"how youwin ; using a coach" ©
i know that ziplock sound ; you don't
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huh ; what
For the love of god, change gears!
Rip headphone users.
Why didn't you change gears?
"mom I want quarters for the game " 😂
This on LSD is amazing. Spent 4 hours on N64 playing this
It's a shame i can't find a longplay video with the "normal" high score tune at the end, which is what I heard all the years I played it. The music you hear here is only for the number 1 score which you would never usually hear as the high score table would contain years' worth of previously achieved scores by the best players ever.
So much nicer than iRacing or Gran Turismo 7…..LOL.
Change into high gear man!!!! Shit!!! My bleeding eardrums
Classic arcade games are so much fun.
Jesus Christ, switch gears man.
“Coco ONLY likes Race Car games, PAC MAN & Baseball. She don’t play no Games. Well she pretends she don’t. She just watches us boys play. Coco says things before they happen in the Game. She knows we cheat finger tapping the button codes. She’s bored.”
Watching someone play this with the car in low gear is triggering my anxiety
SHIFT!!!!
Jajjjaaaajjaa va en primera todo el rato,espero q no lo haga con su coche😂😂😂😂
Those musical notes come from a 1982 Namco arcade game called Pole Position—loved that game😻
Those musical notes come from a 1982 Namco arcade game called Pole Position 😻
change gear dickhead
You can catch me at the mall playing this game anytime
I had this game in it's original format!
0:55
Here because the new Hyundai has a electric “combustible sound” which sounds like this 💀
Windmill cookies and playing pole position in the 80s
Grand theft auto is not the same as pole position.
PREPAIRTOQUALIFY
This was what made me love racing games.
I have no idea what system I played this on but it’s etched in my brain I played it so much
Did they fix the awful drifting sounds for future versions?
Many Quarters spent and Pizza Slices eaten at the wheel of this dynamic machinery
I always thought there was an engine revving as you drive sound….ohhhh! patience IS A virtue, lol
Im a young guy so my first experiences of this gem was on the gameboy advance but a couple years ago me and some friends went to an arcade bar that happened to have an original cabinet with the wheel and pedal and it absolutely changed my whole perspective on just how groundbreaking this game mustve been for its time. All time favorite arcade game with Galaga as a close second!
almost every quarter i had in middle school went to this game!! haha that water spot sound !
Good to see an old classic I used to spend money on back in the day… I was a little perplexed as to why they didn't switch it out of low gear though…
1:17: Life Lost #1
4:49: Life Lost #2
8:57: Life Lost #3
10:21: Life Lost #4
11:23: Life Lost #5
12:04: Name Entry
12:47: Game Over
0:56: Game Start
1:02: Get Ready!
11:56: Game Clear
Im having 1980 games flashbacks
Where can I find this game? I’ve purchased several all in ones but none of them has this game on it, the reason I bought the all in one in the first place.
This is the most nostalgia ill get from a arcade game.
this was probably straight fire back when it came out
This game looks like Roadblasters and these are the greatest graphics I’ve ever seen.
Not authentic vintage arcade. This a computer video game version. Keep searching.
I loved playing as a teen boy in 2018-2019 (I’m 21 now)
In Atari pole position I thought it sounds like boost DJ Wingo & Snot Rod from cars
Showbiz/Chuck E. Cheese in the late 80s early to mid 90s……
Memories 😊😊😊😊😊
My cousins use to have this at their house. I use to play it all the time when I slept over
How does the lap time stay below a minute??