The game was very successful and it spawned an official sequel, Pole Position II, and an unofficial one, Final Lap. After qualifying, the player had to face other cars in a championship race. In Pole Position, the player has to complete a lap in a certain amount of time in order to qualify for a race at the Fuji racetrack.

The first successful Formula One video game in arcade history was Pole Position (1982), by Namco.

However, it was an electro-mechanical game, rather than an arcade video game. The roots of Formula One games can be traced back to the 1970s, with arcade racing games such as Speed Race and Gran Trak 10 which depicted F1-like cars going on a race track.į-1 (1976) by Namco has been cited as the first true Formula One arcade game. History Early roots and arcade games (1970s–1990s) Early Formula One games were typically arcade racing games, before Formula One Grand Prix (1991) popularized Formula One racing simulations on home computers. Ever since Pole Position in 1982, Formula One (F1) has always played a part of the racing genre in video games.

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