The player also has a unique selection of normal cars and tuned cars. Although different from the 2-D Road Fighter, the scenery is similar to other racing games set in Japan such as Initial D Arcade Stage and Wangan Midnight, except the cars are not licensed. Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2 is the sequel to Road Fighter, released in arcades in 1995, and on the PlayStation in 1997. Main article: Konami GT Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2 Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2 Trucks goes on a straight way, but colliding with them will blow up the player's car. Blue cars vary in the way they change their lane. Red cars are a little less likely to appear, but they will change the lane they are travelling in once to get in the way of the player. Yellow cars will travel along a straight line and occur in large numbers. The NES version has a total of 6 types of cars, 1 yellow and red, three blue and one truck. If the player crashes into any other car or slips on occasionally appearing patches of oil, the car will spin out and may crash into the side railings, causing a loss of 5-6 fuel units. The player has a limited amount of fuel and can earn more by touching special multi-colored cars. Pressing the 'A' button raises the player's speed to around 196 Kmph while pressing the 'B' button skyrockets the speed to 400. In the arcade version, five stages were contained. The first and second levels contain 4 courses, ranging from grassy plains to an over water bridge to a seashore and finally a forest area. Road Fighter was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs on March 24, 2010. The arcade game was released for i-mode phones in Japan in 2005. The game was included on Konami Arcade Classics in 1999 and on Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits for the Nintendo DS. The game was later released for the MSX home computer system (1984), and Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan 1985 and Europe 1991, and followed the same format as the original. It was also released on the Xbox 360 as one of the launch titles for Game Room on March 24th 2010.UK cover of the NES version of Road Fighter. It would also get three sequels, Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2, Winding Heat, and Road Fighters 3D. Road Fighter was later ported to the MSX and the NES.
Racing for a while without bumping into other cars gives you bonus points (a train or an airplane or a super-hero will appear in the screen) and completing a stage without bumping into any car gives you 10000 bonus points. There are other ways to be granted bonus points. Those will grant bonus points and additional fuel. The car has two gears one low gear that tops at 192 kmph, and one high gear that tops at 400 kmph.Īlong the race there will be bonus cars. You have the opportunity to counter-steer and allow the car to continue to race without fuel loss. Bumping into traffic or opponents will not cause the player to instantly crash. If the car gets out of the road it will explode and additional fuel will be lost until you come back to the race. The goal is to reach the end of each stage without running out of fuel.
The player controls a red car in a race divided into six stages.