Star Tech Journal

Issue: 1988-June - Vol 10 Issue 4

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June 1988
Atari System. One
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STAR*TECHJoumal
Murphy's Law #104
Road Blaster
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St. Paul, Minnesota
BEST SYSTEM ONE KIT
The best part of this whole system thing, is that
the Road Blaster kit is the best kit I have
purchased in the last nine months. Atari has
been selling this game in kit form for about one
year now. Just for the fun of it I checked with my
April Replay Player Choices, which I consider an
indicator. This poll covers arcades and street
locations from all over the country-- large and
small operators.
ROAD BLASTER VS SH/NOB/
My distributor did not agree with me when I told
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m that Road Blaster was the best kit I have
purchased in the last nine months. "How about
Sega Shinobi ?". was his remark. My answer to
that is. as always. that the cashbox is never
wrong. My Shinobi and RoadBlasterare running
even money. Shinobi is number one on the
software poll. and Road Blaster is number three.
Also, consider that there is almost a year differ-
ence in age.
POLLS
Taito Pyras was number one a short time ago,
now number six. Anything ahead of it is new. On
the dedicated poll. the only game older and
ahead of it, is Sega's Out Run, which includes the
sitdowns and uprights. If it were not for the Out
Run sitdowns, they would probably be even.
UPDATE STATUS
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I would guess that only about half of the people
with Atari System One games have updated to
Road Blasters. Buying the correct game will
make or break you -as we all know. A strong
driving game is as good a buy as we can make
today. especially at a kit price. An unbeatable
combination.
Plus the fact. that I do not think Atari will release
any more games for System One.
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