Roller Coaster Rumbler

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Roller Coaster Rumbler is the first rail shooter-type video game. It was designed by Subway Software (Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel and Joyce Worley) for British publisher Tynesoft, which published it in 1989. Versions appeared on the PC, Amiga, ST and C64 with quality varying greatly among the SKUs.

In this first-person game, the player sat in the front seat of a roller coaster armed with a mounted machine gun and fired at pop-up targets which were released during the course of the ride. The next attempt at creating a rail shooter would not appear for another five years.