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Avoid the Roids

The object of the game is fairly simple, move your ship to Avoid the Roids. Ever so often you will have to avoid an additional Roid. Destroy Roids by having them crash into the sweepers.

31 December 1996

Avoid the Roids is an arcade, released 31 December 1996 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Avoid the Roids is

Avoid the Roids was released in 1996. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The object of the game is fairly simple, move your ship to Avoid the Roids. Ever so often you will have to avoid an additional Roid. Destroy Roids by having them crash into the sweepers.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Avoid the Roids launched on 31 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8 and Money Puzzle Exchanger.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8, Money Puzzle Exchanger.

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When did Avoid the Roids come out?
Avoid the Roids was released on 31 December 1996 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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