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Stop the Express

The ITA Express train has been hijacked and, as a special agent, you have been sent to recapture and stop the train. Fight the knife-throwing bandits, avoid the alien birds and find the key - but beware of the…

90 1 October 1983

Stop the Express is a platform, released 1 October 1983 on Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX, Sharp X1 and ZX Spectrum.

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What Stop the Express is

Stop the Express was released in 1983. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX, Sharp X1 and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Stop the Express, also known as Runaway Express SOS in Japan, is a video game developed by Hudson Soft and published in 1983. It was written for the Sharp X1 and later ported to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and MSX.
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How it plays

Its themes are action.

How it was received

Stop the Express holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1983 averaged 75, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

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Quick answers

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When did Stop the Express come out?
Stop the Express was released on 1 October 1983 for Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX, Sharp X1 and ZX Spectrum.

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