Overview
Road Runner is an action game released for arcades in 1985 that is based on the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts from the Looney Tunes brand of animated shows. As with the cartoon, the goal is for the Road Runner to evade Wile E. Coyote: a particularly determined canine who regularly employs gadgets to make up for Road Runner's superior speed.
Gameplay boils down to eating birdseed while running towards the exit to the west, all the while avoiding Wile E. who will use gadgets like rollerskates or rockets to quickly close the distance. Different gadgets will change Wile E.'s behavior, so the player has to stay alert while also hurrying to the end. Road Runner also has to eat regularly and will run out of steam if the player misses five piles of birdseed in total, allowing Wile E. to easily catch him.
Atari Games's publisher alias Tengen would later port the game to NES in 1989. Australian studio Beam Software handled development.
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