Eliminator Boat Duel

Eliminator Boat Duel is a powerboat racing video game developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Sculptured Software and Radioactive Software. It was published by Electro Brain in 1991.

Eliminator Boat Duel
North American cover art
Developer(s)Sculptured Software
Radioactive Software
Publisher(s)Electro Brain
Composer(s)Paul Webb
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, two-player

Gameplay

Drivers earn thousands of dollars by competing in powerboat races, setting track records, rescuing stranded people, and collecting cash bonuses. With these winnings they can repair or upgrade various components of the boat to improve racing performance and remain competitive in the increasingly difficult races.

Eliminator Boat Duel offers three difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, and Expert. Completing a race at a lower difficulty level advances the player to the next higher one. At each difficulty level, the player's boat can be damaged from impact with animals, the opponent's watercraft, and various stationary objects. A false start is penalized with a $2,000 fine.

For most of a race, players control their craft from a bird's-eye view, and the screen scrolls in multiple directions; but in one segment of the race, the graphical perspective changes to a third-person tracking mode.

In a single-player game, the player competes first with either Seasick Sidney (in Easy mode), with Aquarius Rex (in Normal mode), or with Surfer Bob (in Expert mode). The sequence of later opponents is Vicious Vicky, Weird Willy, Mangler Mike, Veronica Alabaster, and Disaster Don (the reigning World Champion). To win, the player must defeat each opponent one-against-one on three unique race courses. In all, Eliminator Boat Duel has 24 unique race courses.

Cartridge and packaging

The top edge label on the cartridge misspells the game's name as "Elimonator Boat Duel".[2]

Reception
Reception
Review scores
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Nintendo Power
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: I'm kind of confused that you don't seem to have used sparks or anything and seem to just require manually moving mana around.
gollark: TNT *duping*? Hax.
gollark: Mana pools store 1 million mana (yes it is numbered, and MWAHAHAHA I have now spoiled the entire "no numbers" thing for you), and 1 mana is 10 RF.
gollark: Really? I thought it was exactly 10MRF.

See also

Notes
  1. Eliminator Boat Duel at MobyGames
  2. Photo of cartridge edge, Nintendo Age, Retrieved 2014-09-20

References
  • Eliminator Boat Duel at AllGame. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  • Nintendo Power. Nintendo of America (27). September 1991. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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