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Trashman

While few young people aspire to the role of a Dustman, New Generation Software felt they would enjoy pretending to be one on this innovative arcade game. Each section presents you with a road of houses, drawn…

90 31 December 1982

Trashman is an arcade developed by Creative Software, released 31 December 1982 on Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore VIC-20.

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What Trashman is

Trashman is an arcade game developed by Creative Software and released in 1982. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore VIC-20.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Trashman is a video game developed by Malcolm Evans for the ZX Spectrum and released by New Generation Software in 1984. It was ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC.
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Trashman holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 24 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Trashman launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of King Kong, Evolution, Xevious and Grand Prix. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: King Kong, Evolution, Xevious, Grand Prix.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

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When did Trashman come out?
Trashman was released on 31 December 1982 for Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore VIC-20.

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