Road Blaster

Not to be confused with RoadBlasters.
Road Blaster
Japanese arcade flyer
Developer(s)
Data East
Publisher(s)
Data East
  • Wolf Team, Renovation, Sega (Mega-CD)
    Ecseco Development (Saturn/PS1)
Director(s)Yoshihisa Kishimoto[10]
Kazuyasu Yokō (Sega CD)
Producer(s)Joe Asanuma, Masaaki Uno (Sega CD)
Programmer(s)Shintaro Kumagai
Takatoshi Kato
Junichi Nabe
Hironobu Mohre & Masa Yoshihara (sound)
Shinji Hirachi & Chikaaki Tokuhiro (Sega CD)
Artist(s)Hideki Takayama
Yoshinobu Inano
Nobuo Kanuma, Kiyoka Tajima, Masayuki Matsushima, Tadashi Hamada (Sega CD)
Composer(s)Michael K. Nakamura
Motoi Sakuraba (Sega CD)
Platform(s)
Release
August 1985
  • Arcade
    • WW: August 1985[1]
    MSX
    Sega CD
    LaserActive
    • JP: January 25, 1995
    • NA: 1995
    Saturn & PlayStation
    X68000 & Windows
    iOS
    January 15, 2011[9]
Genre(s)Interactive movie, Vehicular combat
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Road Blaster (ロードブラスター) is an interactive movie video game developed by Data East featuring animation by Toei Animation, originally released exclusively in Japan as a laserdisc-based arcade game in 1985. The player assumes the role of a vigilante who must avenge the death of his wife by pursuing the biker gang responsible for her death in a modified sports car. The game would later be ported to a variety of home formats such as the MSX and Sharp X1 (VHD format), Sega CD (under the title of Road Blaster FX), LaserActive (in Mega-LD format), PlayStation and Sega Saturn (in a compilation with Thunder Storm). The Sega CD and Mega-LD versions were released outside of Japan under titles of Road Avenger and Road Prosecutor respectively.

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