Speed Buggy Buggy Boy - Videogame by Tatsumi

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Speed Buggy Buggy Boy

Name: Speed Buggy Buggy Boy
Manufacturer: Tatsumi
Year: 1986
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: unique
Game Specific: Speed Buggy Buggy Boy Pinout

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Speed Buggy Buggy Boy Description

Speed Buggy Buggy Boy was produced by Tatsumi in 1986.

Tatsumi released 9 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Tatsumi during the time period Speed Buggy Buggy Boy was produced include Buggy Boy, Gray Out, Apache 3, Cycle Warriors, Super Delta Force, and TX-1 V8.

A colorful triple-screen buggy racing game with five different racetracks: Circuit Off-Road, North Monte Carlo, East Safari, West Paris Dakar and South Southern Cross. Drive through different terrains avoiding other vehicles and picking up bonus items. Gates provide bonus points.

Speed Buggy Buggy Boy - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.22 (4 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.25

     Overall 'Like': 4.33
     Fun (Social): 3.25
     Fun (Solo): 4.33
     Collector Desire: 3.00

Technical Impressions Score: 3.19

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 3.00
     Sound/Music: 4.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

The key to scoring in Speed Buggy is driving over the colored flags in the order they appear at the top of your info screen. The flags you get light up and the one you need flash at the top of the screen. By going back and forth and finding the flags in order, it will flash all flags when they all have been run over. Then every flag you run over while flashing is a wild color flag and counts as the next color in line and you can run over enuff flags to make them flash again. You get more points doing all this on 2 wheels. The timer expires if you don't make it around for each lap. Finish early and get bonus time for the next lap. Bonus time at the end of a race is big points and number of flags times perfect lap bonus.

Game Play

Player must drive around dunes and through gates while avoiding other buggies. The race is timed and there are checkpoints.

Miscellaneous

This game was licensed from Tatsumi which also licensed TX-1 to Atari. The boards may be very similar. Speed Buggy also came in a deluxe sit-down 3-monitor version just like TX-1.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Speed Buggy Buggy Boy Census

There are 12,158 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,544 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 160,082 machines (6,700 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 30 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 14 of these machines are owned by our active Speed Buggy Buggy Boy collectors. And of these, 14 are original dedicated machines

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Speed Buggy Buggy Boy machines for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Speed Buggy Buggy Boy circuit board set.

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

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