The player portrays the Road Runner who must outmaneuver and outsmart Wile E. Coyote while eating seed along the way in order to stay alive. It also has full-stereo music scores from Road Runner and other Looney Tunes.
Road Runner was produced by Atari Games in 1985.
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 Runner was produced include: E.T., Last Starfighter The, Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet, Peter Pack Rat, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Gauntlet (PlayChoice), and Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back
Name | Road Runner |
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Developer | Atari Games (United States) |
Year | 1985 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 9338 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Platform |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | Atari System I |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 2 |
Game Play | Alternating |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
Controls |
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Sound | Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp) |
Cabinet Styles |
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Control Panel | Road Runner Control Panel Image |
Move the Road Runner through a cartoon world eating bird seed. Lead Wile E. Coyote to his demise for extra points.
Overall Like |
4.00 |
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Fun (Social) | 1.00 |
Fun (Solo) | 3.50 |
Collector Desire | 3.50 |
Gameplay | 3.50 |
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Graphics | 4.50 |
Originality | 3.50 |
Sound/Music | 1.00 |
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The game comes in the same cabinet as the rest of the Atari System 1 games.
Uses Atari System I, cartridge PCB, control panel and marquee.
There are 15,272 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,670 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,971 machines (7,000 unique titles).
Very Common - There are 88 known instances of this machine owned by Road Runner collectors who are active members. Of these, 54 of them are original dedicated machines. 4 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 29 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Road Runner machine for sale.
Wanted - There are 9 active VAPS members currently looking for Road Runner. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Road Runner circuit board set.
This game ranks a 23 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 15 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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Our members have reported that Road Runner is playable at 1 locations:
Name | Location | State | Country | Details | Check-ins |
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Arkadia Retrocade | 1478 N College Ave, Fayetteville | Arkansas | United States | Arcade | 1 |
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