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Hot Rod

Description

A hot rod racing game from Sega. Upgrade your car with the money awarded from completing races quickly.

Hot Rod was produced by Sega in 1988.

Sega released 593 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Hot Rod was produced include: Super League, Bullet, Wonder Boy - Monster Land, Thunder Blade, Super Hang-On, Altered Beast, Gain Ground, Galaxy Force, Galaxy Force II, and Global Defense

Specs

Name	Hot Rod
Developer	Sega (United States)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8148
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Medium Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Sega System 24
# Simultaneous Players	4
# Maximum Players	4
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Steering: Wheel Pedals: 1
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - 3 Player Table/Island - 4 Player

Video Clips

Hot Rod shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

Engine upgrades included front and rear engines, there were three option levels of each. The rear engines being the fastest. There were many shortcuts available on this game. If you saw a break in the curb, chances were it would be a shortcut. Sand drifts and snow caused problems as well.
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/In it's four-player configuration, all players have to remain on the same screen. If you progress to the head of the pack, you are nearly blind to what is waiting behind the next bend. You burn gas to play and receive more gas from placing in second or first and/or picking up gas power-ups. Gas is lost through driving, hitting hazards or being warped back into the pack if you fall far behind. Further you are awarded cash based on place that is used to upgrade your car. Once a player gets on a roll the modifications become pretty intense and can lead to sustained winning streaks. Upgrades include wings that improve general turning, tires for traction, front, rear engines for speed and bumpers to reduce the gas reductions from hazard impacts. Rear engines are the most powerful and expensive. Tires if not appropriate for various track surfaces can hurt more than help. New players that join with stock hot rods in the later levels have little chance of success.

Hot Rod KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.60 (3 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.87

Overall Like	4.33
Fun (Social)	4.67
Fun (Solo)	2.67
Collector Desire	3.33

Technical Rating: 3.33

Gameplay	3.67
Graphics	3.67
Originality	3.33
Sound/Music	2.67

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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Cabinet Information

There are two types of cabinets for this arcade classic. There is the three player upright style, or there is the table top four player version.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Hot Rod Census

There are 15,293 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,679 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,059 machines (7,002 unique titles).

Common - There are 35 known instances of this machine owned by Hot Rod collectors who are active members. Of these, 26 of them are original dedicated machines. 9 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 Hot Rod machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Hot Rod.

This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 10 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

Schematics - Hot Rod Manual — **Schematics**
(16 pages, 1.83 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (c5f34c53b6093a60533276a8c0b1c862)

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