Power Drive/Walkthrough

Once you insert your coin into the cabinet of Bally Midway's 1986 arcade game Power Drive and pressed the appropriate Start Button, the text "THE DOVER DIRT TRACK. ENTRY FEE IS $1,000!!! BONUS JACKPOT IS $50" will appear at the top of the screen, as your account (which shall be increased by $3000 for every coin you insert) is decreased by $1000; the screen shall then cut to a shot of your and the two other trucks (if there are less than three players the other trucks shall be filled in for by one or two black CPU-controlled ones known as "Black Lightning") in lanes filled up with advertisements for older Bally Midway games (including: TRON, Spy Hunter, Tapper, Demolition Derby, Sarge, Shoot the Bull, Rampage, Black Belt and Strange Science). Once the traffic light seen in Daddy's Girl (1P)'s lane changes colour (from red to orange to yellow to green), you must repeatedly press the two Tyre Buttons, to move your monster truck forward - and the display on the side of the screen indicates how fast it is going, as well as if it is in two- or four-wheel drive. If you finish the race within the "Qualifying Time" displayed in the top-left of the giant television behind Daddy's Girl's lane, you will receive $100, along with the bonus jackpot of $50 if you finished it within the "Bonus Time" displayed in the top-right of the television; but if you cannot finish the race within 25 seconds, the text "DID NOT FINISH RACE" shall appear on the television at the end of the race. The game will then proceed to its next event, the "Chicago Crunch" - and this event is a car crush, which means that you shall have to make your truck perform a wheelie to drive over the cars. The third event, the "St. Paul Sled Pull", is a sled pull (as its naming suggests); your truck will have a sled (which is loaded with beer cans) attached to it from behind, and it will then have to pull it for a randomly-selected distance. The fourth event, the "Boston Bug", will see three green Volkswagen Buggies driving away from the trucks - and you will again have to make them perform a wheelie to drive over them once they catch up with them. The sixth event, the "La Crosse Hops", is a ramp jump, which shall see the trucks driving up ramps and popping wheelies to fly through the air for another randomly-selected distance; however, the ninth event, the "Wichita Wheelie", is a wheelie race which will see the trucks having to drive while in wheelie mode for a third randomly-decided distance. Lastly, the twelfth event, the "Bangor Bug-Bang-Up", will see the trucks having to knock one green Volkswagen Buggy off another one to make it fly through the air for a fourth randomly-selected distance - and if there is more than one player the game will occasionally invoke a "Tug-Of-War" bonus event, in which both players will have ten seconds to drag the other player's truck (they are tied together with a rope) over a black line, for a $250 prize. The table below shows all fifty-two regular events, with their types, bonus jackpots, and qualifying times.

After the fifty-second event, the game shall not end; it shall merely start again, and proceed to repeat until all three of the players have run out of money.