Continental Circuit

Continental Circuit - Japanese Title

Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1989
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique
Game Specific: Continental Circuit Pinout
Settings: Continental Circuit Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Sword Controller
Shifter: 2-position (low, high)
Pedals: 1

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Continental Circuit Side Art Image

Continental Circuit Description

Drive a race car throughout different countries.

Taito, the Continental Circuit maker, released 395 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Continental Circuit was produced include Battle Shark, Dynamite League, Rambo III, Plotting, Asuka Asuka, Rainbow Islands Extra Version, Chase H.Q., Top Landing, New Zealand Story, The, and Kurikinton.

Cabinet Information

This game comes in both upright or sit-down models. Some sit-down models may feature shutter-type 3-D glasses hanging above the player's head. To enable this unique feature, make sure you set the DIP switch setting is set to "3-D mode."

Game Introduction

A driving game with a High/Low shift and one pedal no break.

Game Play

This is basically your beat-the-clock type of racing. However, if you get hit by a passing car or track barriers, your car will begin to smoke, meaning you'll have to stop at a nearby pitstop to have your car extinguished. Otherwise, the smoke will develop into fire, which will cause your car to explode, wasting precious time when you start up again. Your car will also explode if you get hit again, after getting hit once.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Continental Circuit Census

There are 6,335 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 4,955 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 80,549 machines (4,474 unique titles).

Common - There are 24 known instances of this machine owned by Continental Circuit collectors who are members. Of these, 18 of them are original dedicated machines, and 6 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 VAPS members with Continental Circuit machines for sale. There are 2 VAPS members with extra Continental Circuit circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one VAPS member currently looking for Continental Circuit.

This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Trivia

The game's title screen reads Continental Circus. This is yet another classic example of a mistranslation from Japanese to English. According to Taito's Japanese game history page, the katakana pronunciation for this title is actually "Continental Circus", but since this racing game has absolutely nothing to do with a circus, the word "Circuit" makes much more sense. All the artwork on the US games were corrected to say "Circuit", yet the original Taito PCBs are labeled "Circus".

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Continental Circuit Flyer #5654