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Road Blasters |
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Manufacturer:
Atari Year: 1987 Class: Wide Release Genre: Racing Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 1 Gameplay: Single Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp) |
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DescriptionFuturistic driving game where you have to shoot opponents and collect fuel globes. Collect power-up weapons by catching them from above. Shortly after its release, you could win a free Atari T-shirt by completing all 50 levels. Digitized speech, effects and music throughout.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe upright game is housed in an Atari System 1 cabinet. Its side art has Atari written down both sides. The large sit-down version has a plastic lens over the monitor which enlarges the screen to make it seem like a 25-inch CRT.Cheats, Tricks and BugsShoot cars using a single shot instead of holding down the fire button to increase the bonus multiplier.Crash into roadside cannons instead of shooting them for 8000+ points. This will greatly increase reserve fuel, which is awarded at the end of a rally based on score. ConversionWith a simple change of the daughter board and the control panel, this game can be converted to other System 1 games in the upright cabinet.Game PlaySimilar to (but not compatible with) STUN Runner. Power-ups include UZ cannon, cruise missile, electro-shield, and nitro injector.Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 86 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 72 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 12 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 53 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. Wanted - There are 2 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Road Blasters Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Atari. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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