Brickyard

Arcade Video game published 49 years ago:

Brickyard (c) 1976 RamTek.

A four-player game where players move their cursors across the screen to create walls to try and surround their opponents and force them to crash.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 559.062 Khz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry.

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick

- TRIVIA -

Released in February 1977.

Originally known as "Barricade", the game was a clone of Gremlin's popular "Blockade". After Gremlin took Ramtek to court, they agreed to rename the game Brickyard, which was a lot less similar to "Blockade".

- SERIES -

1. Brickyard (1976)
2. Barricade II

- CONTRIBUTE -

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