Arcade Video game published 42 years ago:

Road Fighter (c) 1984 Konami.

Road Fighter is an exhilarating, high-speed scrolling racing game.

A unique characteristic of Road Fighter is the fact that bumping into an enemy car does not count as a miss. The counter-steering technique required to 'straighten' your car after bumping into an enemy provided a new level of racing game fun to fans.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID: GX461

Main CPU: Motorola M6809 (@ 2.048 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz) Sound Chips: DAC, SN76496 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), Sanyo VLM5030 (@ 3.58 Mhz)

Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 2 [Low, High]

- TRIVIA -

Road Fighter was released in December 1984 and is the first car racing game from Konami.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Do not miss the bonus car: As you proceed in the game, the difficulty level increases. You will make more misses and will lose fuel quickly. If you spot a bonus car, make sure to run into it, even if it requires you to slow down in the process.

* Get used to counter-steering: Driving without bumping into the enemy is extremely difficult. If you do bump into them, learn to stay calm and counter-steer!

* Secret bonuses: They are all hard to obtain, but they are worth the try! Keep on driving for a certain amount of time without bumping into the enemy -- Konamiman, a train, or an airplane will appear and give you bonus points.

* Run into bonus cars without missing any -- more bonus points.

* Make it to the goal without bumping into any enemy -- 10,000 bonus points.

- PORTS -

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Road Fighter (set 1). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Road Fighter (set 1) is filed in our catalog as a 1984 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Driving.

Credit line lists Konami as developer.