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River Patrol

Name: River Patrol
Manufacturer: 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

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River Patrol Description

River Patrol was produced by Kersten in 1981.

Kersten released only 1 different machine in our database under this trade name.Navigate your tug boat up stream while avoiding various obstacles. Rescue the drowning victims.

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 10,589 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 8,511 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 141,153 machines (6,238 unique titles).

Scarce - There are 5 known instances of this machine owned by River Patrol collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines, and 3 of them 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.

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]

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