Futuristic driving game where you have to shoot opponents and collect fuel globes. Collect power-up weapons by catching them from above. Shortly after its release, you could win a free Atari T-shirt by completing all 50 levels. Digitized speech, effects and music throughout.
Road Blasters was produced by Atari Games in 1987.
Atari Games released 88 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Atari Games was based in United States.
Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Road Blasters was produced include: 720 Degrees, Championship Sprint, Gauntlet II, Super Sprint, Rolling Thunder, Xybots, A.P.B., RBI Baseball, Blasteroids, and Atari R.B.I. Baseball
Name | Road Blasters |
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Developer | Atari Games (United States) |
Year | 1987 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 9332 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Racing |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | Atari System I |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 1 |
Game Play | Single |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
Controls |
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Sound | Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp) |
Cabinet Styles |
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Control Panel | Road Blasters Control Panel Image |
Side Art | Road Blasters Side Art Image |
PCB | Road Blasters PCB Image |
Similar to (but not compatible with) STUN Runner. Power-ups include UZ cannon, cruise missile, electro-shield, and nitro injector.
Overall Like |
4.00 |
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Fun (Social) | 2.40 |
Fun (Solo) | 3.90 |
Collector Desire | 3.89 |
Gameplay | 4.30 |
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Graphics | 4.00 |
Originality | 3.80 |
Sound/Music | 3.80 |
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score.
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Shoot cars using a single shot instead of holding down the fire button to increase the bonus multiplier.PCrash into roadside cannons instead of shooting them for 8000 points. This will greatly increase reserve fuel, which is awarded at the end of a rally based on score.
The upright game is housed in an Atari System 1 cabinet. Its side art has Atari written down both sides. The large sitdown version has a plastic lens over the monitor which enlarges the screen to make it seem like a 25inch CRT.
With a simple change of the daughter board and the control panel, this game can be converted to other System 1 games in the upright cabinet.
There are 15,025 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,573 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 165,438 machines (6,956 unique titles).
Very Common - There are 346 known instances of this machine owned by Road Blasters collectors who are active members. Of these, 283 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 52 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There are 19 active VAPS members with a Road Blasters machines for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with a Road Blasters circuit boards for sale.
Wanted - Popular - There are 19 active VAPS members currently looking for Road Blasters.
This game ranks a 72 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 30 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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This game is available at the following public arcades, bars or museums:
Name | Location | State | Country | Details | Check-ins |
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Level One Bar + Arcade | 130 Hutchinson Ave, Columbus | Ohio | United States | 0 | |
Upstate Pinball & Arcade Museum | 109A West Trade St, Simpsonville | South Carolina | United States |
Arcade (Classic Videogame) Children: Allowed Focus: Classic Games Food: No Alcohol: No Payment Method: Admission Charge |
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Year | Count | Median $ | Average $ |
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2015 | 1 | 345.00 | 345.00 |
2016 | 1 | 575.00 | 575.00 |
2017 | 3 | 517.50 | 555.83 |
2018 | 6 | 324.50 | 383.50 |
All Years | 11 | 460.00 | 444.41 |