Brickyard

50 Years old Arcade Video game Ramtek Corp. [Sunnyvale, CA, USA]

Brickyard © 1976 RamTek.

A four-player game where players move their cursors across the screen to create walls to try and surround their opponents and force them to crash.

TECHNICAL

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 559.062 Khz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry.

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick

TRIVIA

Released in February 1977.

Originally known as Barricade, the game was a clone of Gremlin's popular Blockade. After Gremlin took Ramtek to court, they agreed to rename the game Brickyard, which was a lot less similar to Blockade.

SERIES

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1. Brickyard (1976)
2. Barricade II

SOURCES

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ROM dump (MAME).
All in Color For a Quarter - Keith Smith