RoadBlasters
Sign in to saveRoadBlasters is a 1987 vehicular combat video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. The player navigates an armed sports car through 50 different rally races, getting to the finish line before running out of fuel. Ports were released for a variety of home systems by Tengen and U.S. Gold.
Game data
- Released
- 1987-01-01
- User rating
- 3.38 / 5
- Genres
- Racing
- Platforms
- NES, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST, Atari Lynx, Genesis
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Key dates
- Published
- January 1990
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- U.S. Gold
- Developer
- Atari Games
- Platform
- arcade video game machine
- Game mode
- single-player video game
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RoadBlasters is a 1987 vehicular combat video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. The player navigates an armed sports car through 50 different rally races, getting to the finish line before running out of fuel. Ports were released for a variety of home systems by Tengen and U.S. Gold.
==Gameplay== thumb|left|Arcade version screenshot The objective is to complete all 50 rallies without running out of fuel. The player's car is equipped with a cannon that can be used to destroy enemy vehicles and roadside gun turrets for extra points. A scoring multiplier is set to 1 at the start of each rally. Each time the player successfully strikes a target, the multiplier increases by one, up to a maximum multiplier of 10. After missing a target, the multiplier drops by 1.