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Definition: Pole Position |
Pole PositionNoun1. The most favorable position at the start of a race. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Pole Position |
| English words defined with "pole position": Libration of the moon ♦ Parallel sphere. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pole position": angular variation in synchronous generators, ANTENNA INSTALLER, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ♦ belt tender, butt sawyer ♦ clearance between open contacts, conveyor monitor, CONVEYOR TENDER, CUT-OFF SAWYER, LOG ♦ deck sawyer, DREDGE OPERATOR, dredge pumper ♦ LINE INSTALLER, STREET RAILWAY, line installer, trolley ♦ navigational triangle ♦ pondsaw operator ♦ receiver, bulk system ♦ safety light, SIGN ERECTOR I, sign hanger ♦ timber trimmer, true north. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Pole Position, the player had to complete a lap in a certain amount of time, in order to qualify for a Formula One race at the Fuji Racetrack. After qualifying, then the player had to face other cars in a championship race.
Pole Position was the leading game in arcades worldwide due to its breathtakingly realistic graphics at the time. It pioneered the popular "rear-view racer format" found in many games today, and many imitators of the format appeared after its release, most notably Sega's Out Run in 1986, which took driving games to the next level of realism.
For release in the United States, Namco approached Bally/Midway with a choice of two games in 1982. Bally/Midway chose Mappy while Atari was forced to go with Pole Position. It was the most popular game of 1983.
Pole Position II was released in 1983, and added to the original Fuji track with three additional courses: Seaside, Test and Suzuka.
While many considered the three-screened racer TX-1, released in 1984 by Atari and designed by Tatsumi to be a sequel to Pole Position, the true sequel arrived in 1987 with the release of "Final Lap," which can be considered as Pole Position 3.
Recently, Pole Position made a comeback on the Playstation system, alongside Pac-Man and other Namco games, in a cd named Namco Museum.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pole Position."
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Movie/TV Titles | Erecter Sex 4: Pole Position (1970) Pole Position II (1983) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: opposition. | |
-3 letters: postilion. | |
-4 letters: inositol, lippiest, looniest, loopiest, loppiest, nippiest, oilstone, opposite, pinitols, pisolite, polities, position, postpone, potlines, toplines. | |
-5 letters: elision, entoils, epsilon, inosite, iolites, isoline, isotone, isotope, leptons, liniest, lionise, lippens, loonies, lotions, nipples, oiliest, oolites, options, ostiole, piniest, pinites, pinitol, pinoles, pintles, pintoes, piolets, pipiest, pistole, plenist, plosion, pointes, poloist, pontils, poplins. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-s-t" | |
+3 letters: apolipoproteins. | |
+4 letters: postdepositional. | |
+5 letters: proportionalities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6C 65 50 6F 73 69 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o l e   P o s i t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006C 0065 0050 006F 0073 0069 0074 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081787125081857586758180 |
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