Atari Pole Position: Factory Assembly Line Footage

The development and release of Pole Position is probably worthy of an in depth deep dive for another time, so look out for that in a future post. In the meantime, I’ve come across some more extended footage of the game being constructed on Atari’s assembly lines that I wanted to share. If memory serves me correct, we have seen some of this before, but only a relatively short clip. What I have now is much more extensive and shows a lot more of the build process of these cabinets. Atari Pole Position marquee Pole Position was a significant arcade release, and arguably is one of the most influential games of its time. Developed originally by Namco of Japan, it sought to digitise its coin-operated electro-mechanical driving games released in the 1970s. The game was inspired by Namco’s F-1, released in 1976. You can check out some footage of that game here. Namco’s Electro-mechanical F-1 game, licenced by Atari in North America Pole Position took three years to develop, mostly due to the…