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Death Race
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Name: Death Race Developer: Exidy Year: 1976 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)
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Death Race DescriptionDrive a car over animated stick gremlins and score points. Gremlins that have been run over will scream and a cross will appear where they died. Two players compete against each other at the same time.Death Race was produced by Exidy in 1976. Exidy released 57 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974. Other machines made by Exidy during the time period Death Race was produced include Old Time Basketball, Circus, Attack (Exidy), Robot Bowl, Car Polo, Alley Rally, Destruction Derby, Hockey Tennis, TV Pinball, and Death Race 98. Death Race - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.74 (4 votes)
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. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe cabinet is black with white graphics of a muscle car racing through a cemetary with a big vulture in a tree looking on. The marquee and monitor bezel are quite colorful. A limited number had white sides with the artwork in black (instead of the reverse).Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game PlayDrive around the field chasing down as many people as possible and run them over, turning them into instant tombstones, before the timer expires. Play with a friend to see who can make more tombstones quicker. After you run someone over, the game designers were nice enough to include a reverse gear to finish the victim off. There was a safe area where the cars cannot enter. The people you must chase look like car racers because they appear to be wearing helmets.MiscellaneousThis game is also known as Death Race 2000.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Death Race CensusThere are 12,127 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,620 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,847 unique titles).Common - There are approximately 43 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 20 of these machines are owned by our active Death Race collectors. And of these, 18 are original dedicated machines, and 2 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Death Race machine for sale. Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for Death Race. This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThis game board is actually one of few that does not use a CPU.TriviaThis game is based on and inspired by the movie Death Race 2000. There were only 500 or so made. When it came out it was banned due to its violent content. In the mid-80's there were only believed to be three or four left in existance, but now more are popping up all the time.This is its note from Mametargets: The infamous banned-and-panned game of running over anyone and anything that crosses your path. Hard to believe that little collections of black and white pixels inspired such fervent alarm back then -- but of course something tells me that in 2025 people will take time out from their virtuality program "American Cannibal Wrestling: Marrow Crackdown," listen to a sound-bite history clip about the 25th anniversary of Congressional hearings in the year 2000 about violent video games, and wonder what all the fuss was about. Oh, and for the last time, "Death Race" is the title of the game, NOT "Death Race 2000." The latter was the title of a really bad Sly Stallone/David Carradine movie released the previous year with the same general premise; probably Exidy was hoping for name recognition among the "Kewl Kar Killr" teenage boys who were that film's core audience. Manuals
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Death Race Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Exidy for machines and parts. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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