! [[VideoGame/PolePosition The arcade games]]
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original arcade version featuring real life ProductPlacement has never seen a digital rerelease. Modern incarnations of the game replaced them with Namco's own properties.
* PortOverdosed: In addition to its many ports to contemporary consoles and computers, ''Pole Position'' has been included with just about every arcade compilation Namco has ever released.
! [[WesternAnimation/PolePosition The (unrelated) cartoon]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to co-story editor Michael Reaves, the original concept for the cartoon was to have the Darrett siblings travelling around the world, looking for clues to their parents' past as spies.