''Roller Coaster Rumbler'' is a

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. It was designed by Subway Software (Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel and Joyce Worley) for British publisher

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, which published it in 1989. Versions appeared on

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and

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with quality varying greatly among them. In this first-person game, the player sits in the front seat of a

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armed with a mounted machine gun and fires at pop-up targets which are released during the course of the ride.

Reviews

''Roller Coaster Rumbler'' received mixed

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shortly upon release.

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, an English Atari ST-focused magazine rated it a 63%, stating it was "a cleaver demo", and called gameplay "bland" and "unchanging". Amiga-Spel, a Swedish Amiga-focused magazine, was more positive to the game, saying that "''Roller Coaster Rumbler'' is proof that there are still game producers with imagination and innovation" and "a very pointless pointless game but oh so fun!". Amiga-Spel ended on an overall 8/10, with an 8/10 in the

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category, a 7/10 for

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, and an 8/10 for

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Gallery

File:Roller Coaster Rumbler coverart.png, Amiga cover

References

External links

* 1989 video games Amiga games Atari ST games Commodore 64 games DOS games Rail shooters Roller coaster games and simulations Subway Software games Tynesoft games Video games developed in the United Kingdom {{Rail-shooter-videogame-stub