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Road Runner

Description

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

Specs

Name	Road Runner
Developer	Atari Games (United States)
Year	1985
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9338
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 19-inch Electrohome G07
Conversion Class	Atari System I
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: 1 - Hop Joystick: Hall Effect
Sound	Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Road Runner Control Panel Image

Video Clips

Road Runner shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

Move the Road Runner through a cartoon world eating bird seed. Lead Wile E. Coyote to his demise for extra points.

Road Runner KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.57 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.63

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	1.00
Fun (Solo)	3.50
Collector Desire	3.50

Technical Rating: 3.50

Gameplay	3.50
Graphics	4.50
Originality	3.50
Sound/Music	1.00

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.

Images

Cabinet Information

The game comes in the same cabinet as the rest of the Atari System 1 games.

Conversion

Uses Atari System I, cartridge PCB, control panel and marquee.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Road Runner 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 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.

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

Flyers

Manuals

Operator's Manual - Road Runner Manual — **Operator's Manual**
(52 pages, 4 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (afc6b195a6454b0cd06e6be4f8954ac)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Road Runner is playable at 1 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
Arkadia Retrocade	1478 N College Ave, Fayetteville	Arkansas	United States	Arcade	1

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