Buggy Boy

Buggy Boy, also known as Speed Buggy, is an arcade off-road racing game developed by Tatsumi in 1985. The original, cockpit version of the arcade cabinet had a panoramic three-screen display, a feature previously employed in TX-1. An upright, single-screen cabinet was released in 1986 under the name Buggy Boy Junior.

Buggy Boy
Atari ST cover art
Developer(s)Tatsumi
Publisher(s)
Taito (international)
Composer(s)Mark Cooksey (C64)
Platform(s)Arcade, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST
Release1985
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player
CabinetUpright and cockpit

Gameplay
Arcade screenshot

The object of the game is to drive around one of five courses (Offroad, North, East, South or West) in the shortest time possible. Each course has five legs, each filled with obstacles such as boulders and brick walls. Points are awarded for driving through gates and collecting flags. Offroad is a closed-circuit course that takes five laps to complete while North, South, East, and West are each a strict point A to point B style course.

Buggy Boy Junior

The player could also hit logs and tree stumps in order to jump the buggy over obstacles, gaining extra points while airborne. Extra points are also rewarded for driving the buggy on two wheels.

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
Crash71%[1]
CVG33/40[2]
Sinclair User[3]
Your Sinclair7/10[4]
Zzap!6497%[5]
MicroHobby (ES)[6]
ACE906[7]
The Games Machine92[8]
Award
PublicationAward
Zzap!64Gold Medal

In Japan, Game Machine listed Buggy Boy on their September 1, 1985 issue as being the third most-successful upright arcade unit of the year.[9]

Zzap!64 awarded the Commodore 64 port of the game a gold medal and a 97% score, calling it "a cracking racing game that proves totally compulsive."[10]

Buggy Boy was included as one of the titles in the 2010 book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.[11]

References
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2012-02-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Zzap!64 100th Issue Pull-Out Special Page 5". Zzap64.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
  9. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 267. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 September 1985. p. 25.
  10. "Zzap!64". Zzap64.co.uk. December 1986. pp. 20–21.
  11. Mott, Tony (2 August 2010). 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. Quintessence Editions Ltd. ISBN 978-1-74173-076-0.


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