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S.T.U.N. Runner

Developer / Publisher: Atari Games
04 September 1989
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#76 for 1989
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Futuristic racing#35
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S.T.U.N. Runner
1989 • Atari Games  
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From a modern perspective, S.T.U.N. Runner is pretty rough around the edges. The visuals can grate on the eyes rather quickly, and the controls are cumbersome and frankly hard to actually, well, control. S.T.U.N. Runner's main gameplay format consists as follows: Get a prompt from the game, drive through a futuristic racing course for a minute, read the next prompt, rinse and repeat.

The thing is, S.T.U.N. Runner probably sounded really cool on paper. In 1989, a futuristic, gravity-defying racing game going faster than the speed of sound with more polygons than a beehive was unheard of. While S.T.U.N. Runner undoubtedly has a really cool and unique concept for the time, it unfortunately struggles in executing it well. Like I said before, the gameplay is pretty rough, and frankly gets repetitive rather quickly.

Many of this game's peculiarities and shortcomings, especially in regard to other, more famous futuristic racing games (like the F-Zero [エフゼロ] or WipEout games), can be attributed to the fact that the rules hadn't been written and the standard hadn't been set yet. Anti-gravity racing in a video game context, much less with a shitton of polygons, was gamea incognita.

Overall, S.T.U.N. Runner's primary merit is in its significance to the futuristic racing genre. It appropriated Mach Rider [マッハライダー]'s far-future setting and firing mechanics and put them in a more straightforward racing context, and it's hard not to see the influence of S.T.U.N. Runner on Psygnosis' 1995 opus WipEout. Play S.T.U.N. Runner if you're a fan of racing games and are interested in learning more about the futuristic racing subgenre. If not, it can be skipped without missing a lot.
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xtremedante S.T.U.N. Runner 2024-03-20T02:32:43Z
Arcade
2024-03-20T02:32:43Z
3.0
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KITOAVGAK S.T.U.N. Runner 2024-03-07T00:29:21Z
2024-03-07T00:29:21Z
2.0
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tifokyun S.T.U.N. Runner 2023-10-31T19:20:46Z
2023-10-31T19:20:46Z
3.5
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nbatman S.T.U.N. Runner 2023-07-12T23:14:10Z
2023-07-12T23:14:10Z
3.5
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nightcrawler79 S.T.U.N. Runner 2023-04-23T02:59:53Z
Arcade
2023-04-23T02:59:53Z
5.0
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vrsk S.T.U.N. Runner 2022-05-17T22:38:40Z
Arcade
2022-05-17T22:38:40Z
3.0
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ArnoldGore666 S.T.U.N. Runner 2022-03-08T15:30:06Z
Arcade
2022-03-08T15:30:06Z
3.0
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frankenoise S.T.U.N. Runner 2021-12-12T04:12:48Z
2021-12-12T04:12:48Z
3.5
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CJ_Moki S.T.U.N. Runner 2021-06-18T07:58:30Z
2021-06-18T07:58:30Z
2.5
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Azel S.T.U.N. Runner 2021-05-19T05:50:20Z
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2021-05-19T05:50:20Z
3.0
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thederpylink S.T.U.N. Runner 2021-05-09T08:36:24Z
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2021-05-09T08:36:24Z
4.0
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aleximou S.T.U.N. Runner 2021-05-07T19:32:12Z
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  • frankenoise 2021-12-12 04:13:43.315057+00
    I played the shit out of this game in the arcade as a kid!
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  • nickmgarza96 2023-09-12 01:55:17.267373+00
    The first racing game that was not of the past, nor was ocurring in the present
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  • tifokyun 2023-10-31 19:21:18.730836+00
    rlly cool but admittedly not the easiest to control for me, heavily recommend playing it at a freeplay-type arcade tho if its near u
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