Side Trak

Description

You maneuver your train around the maze track trying to pick up all of the people and avoid a collision with other trains. You actually reroute the track when you switch lanes. The button is used to speed you up.

Side Trak was produced by Exidy in 1979.

Exidy released 57 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974. Exidy was based in United States.

Other machines made by Exidy during the time period Side Trak was produced include: Football, Score, Attack (Exidy), Car Polo, Circus, Kreepy Krawlers, Fire One!, Star Fire II, Rip Cord, and Crash

Specs

Name	Side Trak
Developer	Exidy (United States)
Year	1979
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9541
Class	Wide Release
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Black and White
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: 1 - Accelerate Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Side Trak Control Panel Image
PCB	Side Trak PCB Image

Side Trak KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.86 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.60

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	2.00
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 2.13

Gameplay	3.00
Graphics	2.00
Originality	2.00
Sound/Music	1.50

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.

Images

Cabinet Information

The side art shows a red train with yellow trim rushing out of a tunnel head straight at you. The monitor glass has a nice train and a mean train faceing you about to take off on a twisted looping maze of traks. The control panel is painted black with yellow lettering.

Miscellaneous

Very similar to Exidy's Crash.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Side Trak 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).

Scarce - There are 5 known instances of this machine owned by Side Trak collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Side Trak.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 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

Technical

There is a real bell inside the game that rings when you change tracks.

Manuals

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 71; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 71; Color photo

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