Genre: Racing / Arcade
Developer: Mr. Chip Software
Publisher: Gremlin Graphics
Year: 1986
System: Atari 8-bit
Trailblazer is an arcade-style racing game developed by Mr. Chip Software and published by Gremlin Graphics for the Atari 8-bit family in 1986. The game challenges players to guide a rolling ball-shaped craft along a series of suspended tracks.
Each of the game’s 20 levels features a fast-paced behind-view perspective, with color-coded tiles that affect the craft’s behavior—such as speed boosts, jump pads, slow zones, control reversals, and hazards like holes. Players have a limited number of jumps per level and must reach the end of each course within a time limit, with any leftover time carrying over to subsequent stages.
The Atari port, programmed in machine language, offers responsive joystick and keyboard controls. It includes both solo and split-screen two-player competitive modes, though some later editions may omit the simultaneous two-player feature. Known for its fast scrolling and addictive gameplay
