{"id":5696,"date":"2025-04-15T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agcretrogaming.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:25:09","slug":"tv-commercial-retro-gamer-pole-position-for-atari-2600-usa-1982-game-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agcretrogaming.com\/?p=5696","title":{"rendered":"TV Commercial Retro Gamer &#8211; Pole Position for Atari 2600 &#8211; USA 1982 | Game Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Vk96vSxNm0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pole Position is an arcade racing video game that was released by Namco in 1982 and licensed to Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution, running on the Namco Pole Position arcade system board. It was the most popular coin-operated arcade game of 1983, and is considered one of the most important titles from the video arcade\u2019s golden age. Pole Position was released in two configurations: a standard upright cabinet, and an environmental\/cockpit cabinet. Both versions feature 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atari, Inc. released Pole Position for the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 2600, and Atari 5200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1983 got the Arcade Awards of Coin-op Game of the Year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1984 got the Arkie Award of Computer Game of the Year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1984 got the Softline 4th position of Most Popular Program: Atari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sequel is Pole Position II released in 1983 and Final Lap (Called unofficial as Pole Position III) in 1987, Final Lap 2 in 1990, Final Lap 3 in 1992 and Final Lap R in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped 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