Full Throttle (1987 video game)

Full Throttle, also known as Top Speed (for USA and the rest of the world), is a one-player racing arcade game developed by Taito Corporation in 1987. It is very similar in style to the Out Run games in that it features a fast, red car hurtling through the U.S. countryside. The key difference in gameplay is the addition of a nitro boost button.[1]

This article is about the arcade racing game. For other uses, see Full Throttle.
Full Throttle / Top Speed
Developer(s)Taito
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Hiroyuki Sakou
Platform(s)Arcade, X68000
Release
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player
Arcade systemTaito Top Speed[3]

Trivia
  • The car featured is a red Mazda RX-7 for right-hand driving countries.
  • Director Hiroyuki Sakou went on to create Taito's Operation Thunderbolt a year later.
  • This game was the forerunner of the Taito Z system on which Taito's driving games were based from 1988–91.
  • Some of the billboards in Full Throttle/Top Speed are plugs for other Taito games such as Operation Wolf and Plump Pop
  • One of the billboards in Full Throttle/Top Speed features two detectives who are obvious references to Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs from Miami Vice. Taito released the similar Chase H.Q. the following year, which also featured Miami Vice-esque detectives.
  • This game has a copyright notice in the Japanese release. US and World Top Speed releases do not have this screen.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Full Throttle on their November 15, 1987 issue as being the second most-successful upright arcade unit of the year.[4]

References
  1. http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=full-throttle&page=detail&id=883
  2. http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=top-speed&page=detail&id=2943
  3. http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=655
  4. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 320. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 November 1987. p. 25.


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