Joyful Road 1983 SNK
1983
Joyful Road (c) 1983 SNK.
A weird driving game with a car that has long arms that reach out to grab a variety of edible items that appear along roadside.
The object is to drive safely down the road. Pick up enough fuel to stay alive while avoiding other vehicles that go by, grab as many bonus objects as possible including apples, cherries, bananas, acorns, live fish and money, and park your car in the garage. Driving while trying to pick up the goodies is difficult and you can crash very easily on the narrow roads. The pace of the game is frustrating because the hands move slowly while the car itself moves really fast, especially in the later rounds. If one of your hands hits a tree or any other foreign object in its quest for food, the car winces in pain for a few moments until it can use its hands again.
You can get a bonus for putting used-up food into garbage cans. Grabbing fish which leap out of surrounding rivers is a safe bet, but most other bonuses are placed, so you can crash if you try to grab them. The best strategy is only to go for the fuel, since the car is a big gas guzzler and you can also get a bonus for leftover fuel at the end of the drive.
>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Game ID : A2001
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.75 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 3.75 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 2
Control : Double 8-way joysticks
>>> TRIVIA
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This game is known in US as 'Munch Mobile'.
>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Others :
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (1983)
>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.