River Patrol - Videogame by Kersten

	Museum of the Game® International Arcade Museum® - Killer List of Videogames®	Sign In Register

Home / Games & Machines / Game Lists / Videogame / R / River Patrol

River Patrol

Name: River Patrol
Developer: Kersten

Year: 1981
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: unique

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Buttons: 1 [Accelerate]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Click here to contribute another image.

River Patrol PCB Image

River Patrol Description

Navigate your tug boat up stream while avoiding various obstacles. Rescue the drowning victims.

River Patrol was produced by Kersten in 1981.

Kersten released only 1 different machine in our database under this trade name.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

The game consists of a bird's eye view of a tug boat steaming down a tropical jungle river. There are rocks to be avoided, as well as crocodiles and other deadly river denizens. You have to accelerate if you wish to move upstream. If you cut engines (stop press accelerate button) you will drift downstream. The river itself becomes more difficult to navigate as the game progresses. Tighter squeezes and sharper turns make quick wits absolutely essential. The biggest problem is pin-point navigation. It isn't easy to snake through a couple of rocks about six feet apart or make quick turns away from dangerous beasts without running ashore or into a crash-inducing obstacle.

The object is to rescue the drowning people who periodically appear in the river, flailing their arms madly in the air. Passing the ship over the floaters accumulates points, and, as the journey continues, the tug boat gathers more and more of the rescued.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op River Patrol Census

There are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,523 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,736 machines (6,804 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are approximately 11 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 1 of these machine are owned by our active River Patrol collectors. It is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

eBay Listings

Click to search eBay for River Patrol Videogame machines and related items.

Click to search eBay for Kersten for machines and parts.

Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.

Photo contributed by: Mack Gay

River Patrol - Title screen image

Click here to contribute another image.

Return to the index | Return to the Main Page