is a video game released in arcades by Tehkan and Sun Electronics in 1981. The game was licensed to Centuri for distribution in the United States. It was ported to the

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console. An enhanced version was released in Japan as ''Route-16 Turbo'' for the Famicom in 1985, and in 2001 as part of the

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game ''Sunsoft Memorial Vol. 2''.

Gameplay

The player controls a car and must explore a maze divided into sixteen rooms. The player must collect all the money bags while avoiding colliding with opponents' cars or running out of fuel. Every time the player goes out of a room, a map is shown, indicating the position of every car and all the money bags. There are also flags that can be driven over to invert the roles, so the player can crash the opposite cars and stop them for a few seconds, while getting bonus points.

Legacy

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. ''Route-16 Turbo'' added multiple difficulty levels and improved graphics and music. Due to a programming bug, the Famicom version will never recognise that round 9 is completed, preventing players from going further without emulation. It is unknown whether it is present on the PlayStation version.

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