Pole Position II (Arcade)

Pole Position II
Developer: Namco Publishers: Namco (JP), Atari, Inc. (US) Platform: Arcade (Pole Position hardware) Released in JP: December 1983 Released in US: November 1983 This game has regional differences.

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Pole Position II is the sequel to Pole Position. Differences include a choice of 4 tracks, cars being in a different color and some graphical changes. Apart from that, it is similar to the first game and so is much of this article.

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Namco	Atari

The Namco logo was removed and replaced with just text.

Graphics

Fun fact: The game uses palette trickery to allow two designs to be stored in the same graphic.

Namco	Atari

The blimp flying the banner at the start of the race was changed from a Namco one to a plain one.

Namco	Atari

The Dunlop Bridge was replaced by a generic bridge.

Billboards

All the signs on the side of the road were changed in some way. The Namco version uses product placement from various outside companies and mostly kept the same ones as the original game. The Atari version replaces all this with its own product placement.

Namco	Atari
S.E.V. Marchal	Pole Position II
Marlboro	Dentyne
Agip	Tang
Pepsi	Namco
Champion	7 Eleven
Martini & Rossi	No alcohol
Blinky from Pac-Man	No replacement sign
Honda Racing	No replacement sign
Canon	Atari

The "But Clyde!" banner is taken from the "Picnic in Pacland" episode of the Pac-Man animated series.

Gameplay

The Namco version is measured by TIME, while in the Atari version it is measured by UNIT.