Route-16 (video game)#Legacy

{{Infobox video game

| title = Route-16

| image = Route 16 USarcadeflyer.png

| caption = US arcade flyer

| publisher = {{vgrelease|JP|Sun Electromics|NA|Centuri|EU|Tehkan}}

| released = {{vgrelease|JP|February 1981{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005) |date=13 October 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |language=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=31 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n32}}|NA|April 1981{{cite magazine |title=Manufacturers Equipment |magazine=Cash Box |date=5 February 1983 |page=35 |url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox44unse_33/page/n34 |publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co.}}|EU|1981{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Route 16, Sun Corporation (EU) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=917 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=26 April 2021}}}}

| genre = Maze, racing

| modes = Single-player, multiplayer

| platforms = Arcade, Arcadia 2001, Famicom, PlayStation

}}

{{nihongo foot|Route-16|ルート16|Rūto 16|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a 1981 maze video game developed and published by Sun Electronics for arcades. The game was released by Tehkan (not yet a video game developer by its release) in Europe and Centuri in North America. It was ported to the Arcadia 2001 console. An enhanced version was released in Japan as Route-16 Turbo for the Famicom in 1985.

Gameplay

The player controls a car and must explore a maze divided into sixteen rooms. The player must collect all the money bags while avoiding colliding with opponents' cars or running out of fuel. Every time the player goes out of a room, a large overworld map is shown, indicating the position of every car and all the money bags.{{cite web |title=Five great (but forgotten) alternatives to Pac-Man from the early '80s |url=https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2017/06/five-great-but-forgotten-alternatives.html |website=Digitally Downloaded |access-date=7 December 2023 |date=8 June 2017}} There are also flags that can be driven over to invert the roles, so the player can crash the opposite cars and stop them for a few seconds, while getting bonus points.

Route-16 distinguished itself from other maze games with the addition of an overworld map, showing the locations of the player, cars, and treasures.image:Route-16 turbo boxart.png

Legacy

{{nihongo foot|Route-16 Turbo,|ルート16ターボ|Rūto 16 Tābo|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} an improved version of Route-16 for the Famicom, was published on October 4, 1985, by Sunsoft only in Japan. Route-16 Turbo added multiple difficulty levels and improved graphics and music. It is included in the 2001 PlayStation compilation Sunsoft Memorial Vol. 2.