The Battle-Road
The Battle-Road is a vertically scrolling vehicular combat game released in arcades by Irem in 1984. The player controls a car armed with two types of guns (frontal and side) and drives on a road full of other dangerous vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, trucks and helicopters. It has branching paths resulting in 32 possible routes.[3]
| The Battle-Road | |
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| Developer(s) | Irem |
| Publisher(s) | Irem |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Vehicular combat |
| Mode(s) | Single player, 2 players alternating |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Irem M-62 |
| CPU | 1 × Z80 @ 3.072 MHz[2] |
| Sound | 2 × AY-3-8910 @ 895 KHz 2 × MSM5205 @ 385 KHz |
| Display | Raster, 256 x 256, 544 colors |
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed The Battle-Road on their November 15, 1984 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade unit of the year.[4]
References
- The Battle-Road at GameFAQs
- "The Battle-Road". Arcade History.
- Battle-Road, The at the Killer List of Videogames
- "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 248. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 November 1984. p. 25.
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