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Pole Position II [a] is the sequel to racing simulation game Pole Position, released by Namco for arcades in 1983. As with its predecessor, Namco licensed this game to Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution. Atari Corporation released a port as the pack-in game for its Atari 7800 ProSystem console launch in 1986.
Arcade Archives [a] is a series of emulated arcade games from the late 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo Switch, published by Hamster Corporation.
Pole Position II: Namco Pole Position: December 1983: Yes Yes No Sequel to Pole Position. Gaplus: Namco Phozon: April 1984: Yes Yes No Released in the United States as Galaga 3. The Tower of Druaga: Namco Super Pac-Man: June 1984: Yes No No First Namco game to have an ending instead of continuing indefinitely, looping, or ending in a kill ...
Includes Pac-Man, Rally-X, New Rally-X, Bosconian, Galaga, Pole Position and Toy Pop; Features a 3D virtual museum that the player can walk around and interact with; One of the first PlayStation video game compilations, alongside Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits; Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1: November 1995 1995 1995 Notes:
Pole Position was released in two configurations: a standard upright cabinet and an environmental/cockpit cabinet. Both versions include a steering wheel and a gear shifter for low and high gears, but the environmental/cockpit cabinet featured both an accelerator and a brake pedal, while the standard upright one only featured an accelerator pedal.
50th Anniversary replaces Galaxian and Pole Position with Pac-Man and Rally-X. This is the first edition of Namco Museum with actual arcade game emulation using the original game ROM images (although voice sounds in Rolling Thunder, sounds for both Pole Position games and Xevious are stored in .wav files). Also, the GameCube version allows the ...
The year's highest-grossing arcade video games were Pole Position in the United States, for the second year in a row, and Track & Field in the United Kingdom. The year's best-selling home system was Nintendo's Family Computer (Famicom), which was only sold in Japan at the time.
Video game genres were still being established, but included space-themed shooter games such as Defender and Galaga, maze chase games that followed the design established by Pac-Man, driving and racing games which more frequently used 3D perspectives such as Turbo and Pole Position, character action games such as Pac-Man and Frogger, and the ...