American Truck MSX 1985 Telenet Japan

This is a slightly strange game where you drive a giant 18-wheels truck racing recklessly in a highway and knocking out of the road innocent cars and ambulances. It's basically a clone of Konami's Road Fighter with the twist of having the player driving a massive truck. It is not bad, but it is not great like the very popular Road Fighter and F1 Spirit games.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• american
• truck
• top
• down
• racing
• 8-bit
• msx
• 1985
• telenet
• japan
• road
• fighter
• f1
• spirit

[BasG74]

Graphics were OK for MSX, scrolling and movement was good but the sound was very annoying and no music. Great artwork on the packaging.

[Teraforce88]

@Normal1S LOL.  This was actually the very first game Telenet Japan ever made!

[Normal1S]

This was Yuko's job before she achieved the power of Valis. . .

[eqwwac]

it's not a clone of [roadf] (Road Fighter), but it's a traditional truck game and not your fault.

[Teraforce88]

@ZILOGz80VIDEOS No. This game was developed & published by Telenet Japan, which is a now-defunct Japanese game developer/publisher. They were most popular in the early 16-bit era, and they were known for games such as the Valis series, Gaiares, Granada, and the Cosmic Fantasy series, just to name a few. American Truck was the first game they ever did.

Telenet Japan has nothing to do telnet. Notice the extra "e" in Telenet

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

wait so this game was played via telnet?