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Badlands

Description

A post nuclear war, top-down auto racing game with guns. There are four laps per race and eight different tracks.

Badlands was produced by Atari Games in 1989.

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 Badlands was produced include: Tetris, Vindicators, Assault, Toobin', Cyberball, Hard Drivin', Cyberball 2072, Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, S.T.U.N. Runner, and KLAX

Specs

Name	Badlands
Developer	Atari Games (United States)
Year	1989
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6993
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Steering: Wheel Buttons: 1 - Fire Pedals: 1
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Badlands Control Panel Image
PCB	Badlands PCB Image

Video Clips

BADLANDS ATARI ARCADE GAME 1990

Game Introduction

From the operators manual:It has been 50 years since the nuclear disaster. The sport of sprint racing is now a ruthless battle between armed cars. These races take place on tracks built in the ruins of the dangerous nuclear zone known only as the BADLANDS. This is sprint racing gone BAD! It's all-out war on the track as players blast away at the drones (and each other) to finish first! Players shoot playfield targets for extra points and bonus missiles!

Unlike the sequels Championship Sprint and Super Sprint, this game uses a standard resolution monitor instead of a medium resolution monitor. This means the cars are somewhat larger and because of this scale issue, the tracks seem to be smaller in real-world terms.

Game Play

Finish first! Upgrade your cars by collecting the wrenches which appear periodically on the track. The following upgrades are available: missiles, tires, turbo, speed, and shields.

Badlands KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.16 (5 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.99

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	4.25
Fun (Solo)	3.75
Collector Desire	4.33

Technical Rating: 2.95

Gameplay	3.60
Graphics	3.75
Originality	2.75
Sound/Music	3.00

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.

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Trivia

This game "recycles" sounds from Championship Sprint and Super Sprint when wrenches are collected, for coin-ups and possibly others.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Badlands 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 62 known instances of this machine owned by Badlands collectors who are active members. Of these, 28 of them are original dedicated machines. 12 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 22 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Badlands machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Badlands circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 10 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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

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