LoginRegisterContact

Rocket Racer

Unreleased Arcade Video game published 41 years ago by Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp.

Not listed in MAME yet

Rocket Racer © 1983 Rock-ola.

A color vector game.

Goodies for Rocket Racer
Click to enlarge
(members only)
TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.
1

TRIVIA

This game is an unreleased prototype.

From the designer/programmer: "You had mines that hurt your ship and slowed it down but if you could stay flying within the 4-D tunnel…it accelerated you faster and faster so you tried to use these as electromagnetic accelerator lanes. Fly through one and you went faster. Hit a mine flying from one to another…and you got slowed down. To give you a 3-D effect I made things shake subliminally one frame per on 30th of a second. the closer things shook more and the thing further away didn't shake. But this only happened while you were moving. It was something you couldn't see, but you could absolutely sense it. Really cool effect… the 2076 didn't have enough horsepower to do what I wanted so I designed a Z-80 processor board to do all the gameplay logic and make the 2076 just a drawing graphics machine so it could draw and draw and not waste time calculating anything. that made for a pretty incredible system. I had wire wrapped my first prototype and the other 5 were done by one of the techs that worked on some of the [Rock-ola] juke box stuff."

Goodies for Rocket Racer
Click to see more
(members only)
STAFF

Designed and programmed by: John Jaugilas