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Steeplechase - Atari

Steeplechase

Released in:

1975

Developed by Atari subsidiary Kee Games, it simulates a steeplechase-style horse race. It was distributed in Japan by Namco in 1976. The game is housed in a custom extra wide cabinet that six individually colored and lit buttons used to make a player’s horse jump. The monitor is a 23” black and white CRT monitor with 6 color overlays to make each of the 6 horizontally stacked lanes match their colored button counterparts. Sounds include a bugle, galloping hoof beats, and crowd cheers. Up to six players can play against each other, each choosing a horse while the computer controls the seventh horse on the bottom. Each player’s horse begins galloping, and the players must jump over obstacles in their lanes by pressing their colored buttons. The horse that successfully jumps all obstacles smoothly becomes the fastest horse and wins.
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