Just listening to this review bring my childhood in full circle, use rock the shit outta this in the arcade and the Genesis.

This was one of the first arcade games I ever played, and its still a favorite.

Great game! i remember playin it at Celebration Station . I always loved that classic Atari font they used on this game and all the other arcade games they released around the same time as Roadblasters

Aw man, I remember this one, had forgotten all about it! But dat music. Was a hell of a quarter monster, but still really fun.

One of my favorite games at the arcade and my favorite game on the Nintendo.

I played the stand-up cabinet version as a kid at a local convenience store. I loved this game so much!

One of my favourite ever arcade games and one of the few that I actually excelled at, When I played Roadblasters, I was like Matthew Broderick playing Galaga in War Games, the crowds used to gather round in awe, and I could play it with my eyes shut and both hands tied behind my back. Thats how I remember it anyhow, still, never did get that t-shirt. I also remember it being one of the few games I could play for about 45 mins on my 3 credits. Top of my list for a cabinet if I ever get one!

My favorite arcade game of all time! Thanks for reviewing this!

Got my roadblasters arcade 2 years ago and it was a steal, 350 dollars! Had to buy it, many memories of blowing my money on this arcade when I was a kid.

Roadblasters. I was 5 years old when I played this game for the first time. It was the first arcade game I ever played, and I loved that theme song for years too. When I got Midway Arcade Treasures, this was the first game I went to. :-D

Nice vid with awesome voice-over work! I would have to say as memorable and great as the music is the stereo sound which is super clear always stood out for me. The Road Blasters theme music from the toy commercial and the attract mode, excellent! It may have been 28 years coming but I scored my upright this week and I'm a happy man! Road Blasters rules!!

This is one of my all-time favorites. I like the futuristic setting and background designs. It has a cool soundtrack, too. Nice video!

This game had sweet ass music in the arcade.

I fell in love with this game at Big Cheese Pizza in Emporia, Kansas. Best family roadtrip ever!

Loved this game a ton back in the day, a classic.

Midway were the kings of badass psycho games, all guns and whistles, ask questions later. Really fun little game this, and there are slight echoes of their future release Stun runner here too. It always feels like you're cornering on a greasy oil slick though.

Spend a small fortune on this when it came out, bought the cab used in 1993. Still a great game!

Used to play this all the time in the arcade. Watching the video, I'd forgotten just how fast the car goes!

I played this every year on vacation at VA Beach at Flipper McCoys, the ultimate arcade in the state of VA at the time.

I love this on the Lynx.

One of my favourite games from my childhood,I think it is one of the very first games I´ve ever played

This was one of my favoritest arcade games when I was was a kid

Many happy hours spent on this game. Although I was spoiled as my local arcade had the sit down version with the 'big screen'. Which was actually a smaller crt screen with a huge magnifying glass in front of it....

man i use to play that game all the time in the arcade. such a fun game.

I used to love this game. I had it on console and wow would I have been happy to play the arcade version.

I like the theme intro of roadblasters

this and stun runner were probably the most impressive atari cabinets. awesome game

I already know every word to the intro sequence and say it right along side Mark.

I remember playing this game as a child at Chucky Cheese in the late 80s & being blown away when I first saw it...and then asking my Dad if cars had reserve tanks...lol

This is the only arcade game I ever mastered. I likely spent all of my part time job money in high school to master it. I was eventually able to completely all 50 levels and get the high score nearly every time. Great game.

I was so enamored by this cabinet when I was six that my first piece of creative writing in primary school was a fictional story I wrote about this game. 1980's arcade game fan fiction ftw

I remember this arcade machine in the local Chuck E. Cheese back in the 90s, but it was a sit down machine and it was isolated in a corner away from the other arcade machines in the place.

I remember playing this arcade at Katsucon years ago! This was really fun and addicting.

Always enjoyed this one, along with Chase HQ and another one I think was called Narc. Boy do I feel old!

I honestly truly hope Mark gets that tshirt. Itd make a good decoration for the space arcade

RoadBlasters is a fantastic game, I own an arcade of it myself. Good graphics (for its time) awesomely fluent controls, kickass music, and you can SHOOT the cars unlike pole position.

I remember telling my parents I wanted to go bowling... just to only play this machine... and then begging my parents for money to play it.

I completed Road Blasters in the arcades in the early 90s I vaguely remember there being a phone number to call to get the t-shirt but it was a US no. (I am from the UK) and I didn't have a pen or paper handy to write it down! I also assumed the offer had expired, and most likely only open to US residents, but who knows?

I always liked roadblasters ever since I played it in the arcades back in the early 1990's, great game & a classic imo. The arcade version was released as part of a compilation in the game called midways arcade treasures (volume 1). Still the stand up arcade version is the best one, especially with that great stearing wheel.

Oh looks so sweet!!

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude! I played this SO much when I was kid!

Great video!

This was one of my favorites games...crazy thing is when you get up in the levels they start putting trees right in the middle of the road. (and they're immune to everything but like the cruise missile if I remember right.)

The Atari Lynx version was surprisingly close back in the day, a great arcade conversion on a handheld. Oddly enough the Vita version of Spy Hunter actually reminds me of an updated version of this.

Used to play this in the arcade around 1989, when I was 11......always played Turbo Outrun too...where you sat and drove in the moving car

Funny you reviewed this game, i recently picked up the c64 version of the game. Gone pull it out and play tonight.

I wonder how many CGR fans have a free ATARI Road Blasters t-shirt that they still wear....great vid!

Lots of quarters pumped into this one back in the day.

I loved this game!

This was (and still is) my ish!!!!! I play this occasionally on the NES and the Midway Arcade Treasures Collection on the OG XBOX and it's a very fun game.

I played this alot as a child on the genesis good times.

I just found this Game in an Antique Store! They thought it did not Work so i decided to Plug it in Anyways... And it worked perfect! Still had the 1st Printing of the ATARI System 1 Manual and Road Blasters 1st Printing Manual and still has its Side Art.... It was a working game at the price of a broken game..."Lets just say i got a killer deal and the price range was around the cost of a 3DS!!! :)

I used to play this game all the time at a bowling alley by my highschool

Reminds me a lot of MegaRace!!!! I just got the new ZOOM re-master from the guys making the reboot!!! Please review that next!!!!

Atari made amazing cabinets and peripherals back in the day. Remember star wars arcade cabinet ? Such a shame they are no more...

Yea it is!!!! I would kill to play it man!

Yes, absolutely!

I loved this game.

I had this on the Atari Lynx it was so fkn awesome

One of the greatest games ever made

I love this guy

+Lord Karnage This arcade game was also featured in the movie _Wreck-It Ralph._

Great port on Atari Lynx as well.

Sunk tons of quarters into this machine in the 80's -3

I love this game and the Genesis/MD port of it isn't too bad neither.

Got halfway to that t-shirt!

Am I the only one who wants to go to the Space Arcade _just_ to play all the arcade games?

Looks pretty fun. Personally though if I ever get an arcade cabnit (in 20 years I can definitely see it happening) I want Bosconian. Although I would be OK with Hydro Thunder or 18 Wheeler too. I wonder if Mark fixes his arcade machines himself or hire someone to do it.

It's like the climactic chase scene in Road Warrior, but without the fuel truck and dominatrix gang

Awesome

Would you ever consider having a contest where the prize was to visit the Intergalactic Space Arcade? Perhaps a ride in your interstellar travelling El Camino?

Played the hell outta this on the Atari LYNX.

I remember playing the NES port of this game as a kid.

i always twisted my wheel at the end beleiving i was doing the half spin myself even though the car spins that way by default

Have this Genny cart. Love it! 8^)

I used to play it on my Sega Genesis.

loved this game back in the day, I remeber getting the CPC version for xmas and being disappointed.

Would LOVE to see an arcade port & HD remix of Roadblasters on current-gen or next-gen consoles!! BTW, is that a broken pixel I see on the monitor?

an 80's classic

I actually saw a cabinet of this at a flea market. It didn't look like it was working, though.

Mark is really fucking good at this one.

When I clicked on this video, I was extremely angry at someone and was hoping that the video would be mildly amusing enough to calm me down. Turns out, your username happens to be one of my all-time favorite SpongeBob quotes. Thank you, random stranger. Thank you for being random.

Damn it I want that t-shirt

Should do a review of S.T.U.N Runner.

the car reminds me of the back to the future delorean

Crystal Palace is a real place in London. Slightly amusing.

Roadblasters and STUN Runner were my two favorite quarter munchers. Mark needs a STUN Runner machine. anyone got one to send to the show.....Mohamad maybe?

Was waiting for you to set off the nuke.

I wonder what the "maintenance" of an arcade cabinet entails. Cleaning the dust out of the cooling fan?

Be careful, I remember the trees start becoming obstacles in the middle of the roads around stage 40.

2:52, don't turn around Mark, I think there's a demon there.

mark should do some kind of promotion like SPEND YOUR BIRTHDAY AT THE INTERGALACTIC SPACE ARCADE. can you imagine?

If you ever get it, do Road Blaster (A.K.A Road Avenger), next. :P

Holy shit nice El Camino

No greasy Truckstop is complete without a Roadblasters cab.

Roadblasters is a great game, but you only get one chance at level 50... you can continue infinitely up to that point, but your first game over in level 50 is it, you start over from the beginning. They didn't want to make it easy to get those t-shirts! Fantastic game though.

Lynx version rocks. Does Mark have an atari lynx?

I want to visit the Intergalactic Space Arcade! Sadly, I'm not an astronaut. :-(

Have one of these uprights, friend has the cockpit. He starts on level 11 and has a score of 1.2mil on my cab - el bastardo!

No comment that the controller is the same thing on the Star Wars arcade game, but with the foward and back tilt locked in place?