''The Battle-Road'' is a vertically scrolling vehicular combat game released in arcades by Irem in

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. The player controls a car armed with two types of guns (frontal and side) and drives on a road full of other dangerous vehicles such as

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s, motorcycles, trucks and helicopters. It has branching paths resulting in 32 possible routes.

Reception

In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''The Battle-Road'' on their November 15, 1984 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

References

1984 video games Arcade video games Arcade-only video games Irem games Top-down racing video games Vehicular combat games Video games developed in Japan {{arcade-stub