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Road Blasters

Description

Futuristic 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.

Road Blasters was produced by Atari Games in 1987.

Atari Games released 89 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Atari Games was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Road Blasters was produced include: 720 Degrees, Championship Sprint, Gauntlet II, Super Sprint, Rolling Thunder, Xybots, A.P.B., RBI Baseball, Blasteroids, and Atari R.B.I. Baseball

Specs

Name	Road Blasters
Developer	Atari Games (United States)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9332
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Atari System I
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Steering: X Yoke with two buttons - FireSpecial Pedals: 1 - Gas
Sound	Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - 302 lbs Environmental/Cockpit
Control Panel	Road Blasters Control Panel Image
Side Art	Road Blasters Side Art Image
PCB	Road Blasters PCB Image

Video Clips

Atari RoadBlasters Arcade Game in action, Rally 1-4

Road Blasters shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

Similar to (but not compatible with) STUN Runner. Power-ups include UZ cannon, cruise missile, electro-shield, and nitro injector.

Road Blasters KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.81 (10 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.61

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	2.40
Fun (Solo)	3.90
Collector Desire	3.89

Technical Rating: 3.98

Gameplay	4.30
Graphics	4.00
Originality	3.80
Sound/Music	3.80

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Shoot cars using a single shot instead of holding down the fire button to increase the bonus multiplier.PCrash 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.

Images

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Cabinet Information

The upright game is housed in an Atari System 1 cabinet. Its side art has Atari written down both sides. The large sitdown version has a plastic lens over the monitor which enlarges the screen to make it seem like a 25inch CRT.

Conversion

With 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.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Road Blasters Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 348 known instances of this machine owned by Road Blasters collectors who are active members. Of these, 285 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 52 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 19 active VAPS members with a Road Blasters machines for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with a Road Blasters circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 20 active VAPS members currently looking for Road Blasters.

This game ranks a 72 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 30 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Manuals

Schematic Package - Road Blasters Manual — **Schematic Package**
(24 pages, 3.6 MB File)

Operators Manual - Road Blasters Manual — **Operators Manual**
(80 pages, 11.9 MB File)

Assembly and Maintenance Procedures - Road Blasters Manual — **Assembly and Maintenance Procedures**
(4 pages, 359 kB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (7e801ed89b058a49d06e6be4f8954ac)
3D Model (External): cockpit (b3f846be7c8697f915000ab5e56184f5)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Road Blasters is playable at 2 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
Level One Bar + Arcade	130 Hutchinson Ave, Columbus	Ohio	United States	Unknown	0
Upstate Pinball & Arcade Museum	109A West Trade St, Simpsonville	South Carolina	United States	Arcade	2

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