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Traverse USA

Name: Traverse USA
Developer: Irem

Year: 1983
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Irem
Game Specific: Traverse USA Pinout
Settings: Traverse USA Dipswitch Settings

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

Joystick: 2-way (left, right)
Buttons: 2 [LowHigh]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Traverse USA Description

Drive a motorcycle across America. The waypoints are major cities.

Traverse USA was produced by Irem in 1983.

Irem released 87 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Irem during the time period Traverse USA was produced include Tropical Angel, Zippy Race, Lode Runner, Spartan X, Battle-Road, Moon Patrol, Panther, Demoneye-X, Red Alert, and Andromeda.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Miscellaneous

This is the same game as Zippy Race.

This is also the same game as MotoRace USA, which was licensed to Williams for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Traverse USA Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are approximately 20 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 9 of these machines are owned by our active Traverse USA collectors. And of these, 9 are only 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 11 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]

Trivia

A DIP switch on this machine can change the title to either Traverse USA or Zippy Race.

Manuals

Traverse USA German Manual 5 Pages, 1.1 MB File.
Pinout and DIP switch settings 1 Pages, 174 kB File.

Video Clips

Traverse USA shortplay by Ivan Paduano

TRAVERSE USA ARCADE ORIGINAL GAME BOARD

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Traverse USA - Title screen image
Photo contributed by: Steven Dixon(jammajup)

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