Turbo Arcade Game Sega 1981 gameplay

Here is a look at the arcade game called Turbo. This one's seldom seen in arcades these days. It's a favorite of mine from way back in my youth. It's all but forgotten, but still a great retro game nonetheless. I remember enjoying this one at a hotel in Florida that had it's own arcade. At 12 years old, having a pool and an arcade right next to each other was the greatest thing ever. There are some rather loud sound effects in this game. Please turn your speakers down a bit when you begin to watch this vid, and then adjust accordingly. Enjoy the vid.

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• Turbo
• Arcade
• Game
• Sega
• 1981
• gameplay
• Retro
• gaming
• Coleco
• Vision
• old
• Classic
• Vintage
• game
• driving
• racing
• 1980s

[NotABot55]

Ah, for the days when cars blew up like movie-grade Pintos in video games... with all the excessive licensing nowadays, you can't even so much as scratch the paint with your keys!

Yet the car you hit moves on as nothing happened... sadly, that part hasn't changed much....

[mikeferr107]

@NotABot55 - Well said!

[joesmoe71]

I've got one of those damn things if I can ever get it working! :) Just got done fixing the cab up cosmetically, now I've got to figure out the electronics.

[mikeferr107]

@joesmoe71 - That's awesome that you have one. I hope you do get it working.

[AreYouLuckyWoW]

Picking up one of these machines this weekend. Everything works but the art needs some TLC.

[Atomicskull]

@kevin12567 It's actually because Turbo Buck Rogers and Subroc 3D all used voltage controlled oscillators and image roms containing the sprite data for scaling. The speed at which the sprite was read out of ROM as the raster field was scanned onto the CRT controlled how large the object would be drawn. The slower it was read out of ROM, the larger the object appeared on screen. This was a weird way of scaling but digitally resizing images wasn't possible then.

[digiprez77]

This was one of my favorite games. Turbo has some of the most point-sensitive steering of any driving game ever, great speed, and some nice road effects for the time. Would love to have one of these machines.

[joesmoe71]

@mikeferr107 Eventually, one way or another, fortunately parts aren't too rare for this game.

[NathanIVV]

This probably was one of my favorite arcade games to play. The local pool hall had one and you sat down in the cabinet. it may not look and sound like much (especially by today's standards)...but it was so intense when you were in the "zone" and would not have any wrecks and you're just passing people left and right. It was so damn cool driving on the bridge during the sunset and then speeding through the city....awesome.