Verified buyer
Item came exactly as described and shipping from seller was Ultra fast! Would do business with seller again! Thank You :)
RighteousBlaze· September 2026
BoughtNinja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Moon Patrol
- $34.99
- Regular price
-
$39.99 - Sale price
- $34.99
- Unit price
- per
Box, manual and game — all original, all in the photos. Game condition guide →
Ships in 1–2 business days·Tracking on every order·Signature required on orders $250+
Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Moon Patrol is one of the first arcade games that looks like it is moving through a real landscape. As your lunar buggy rolls across the surface, distant mountains drift by slowly, closer hills glide past a little faster and the cratered ground races beneath your wheels. That layered parallax scrolling helped introduce a technique that would define side-scrolling games for the next decade, and the Atari 5200 version reproduces it, with its programmers changing scroll speeds at specific lines of the screen to pull off the effect.
Designed at Irem by Takashi Nishiyama, who went on to create Kung-Fu Master, and released in North American arcades by Williams in 1982, the game casts you as a Luna City police officer on patrol. The buggy fires two ways at once, forward to blast the rocks in your path and straight up to knock flying saucers out of the sky, while you jump to clear craters, including the fresh ones that UFO bombs punch into the road ahead. Juggling the ground and the sky at the same time is what gives Moon Patrol its hectic, satisfying rhythm.
Progress is measured in lettered zones from A to Z, with checkpoints closing out each stretch and a time-based bonus that shows if you have beaten the record for that leg. Finish the Beginner Course and the Champion Course follows, adding missiles and space plants to the mix. Atari's in-house team of Scott Smith, Courtney Granner and Robert Vieira kept most of the coin-op's graphics and sounds, along with the catchy tune that runs nonstop under the action, and the result is widely praised among the game's home versions.
Those checkpoints made Moon Patrol unusually welcoming for its time, letting players push a little further each session instead of starting from scratch. Add the groundbreaking visuals and a soundtrack that sticks in your head, and it is a richly rewarding arcade conversion for the 5200.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1983
- Publisher
- Atari
- Developer
- Irem
- Players
- Single player
Make an offer
Request more photos
Ships in 1–2 business days (Monday–Friday, excluding major U.S. holidays). During the holidays and big sales, allow one extra business day.
- Live USPS and UPS rates at checkout. Every order ships with tracking.
- We ship to all 50 states, U.S. military addresses (APO/FPO/DPO), and Canada. Canadian orders may owe duties and taxes on delivery.
- Orders of $250 or more ship with signature confirmation.
- Delivery dates shown at checkout are estimates, not guarantees.
Read the full Shipping Policy, including holiday order-by dates.
Most of what we sell is one of a kind, so all sales are final unless something goes wrong on our end.
Contact us within 14 days of delivery if your item doesn’t work, arrived damaged, is the wrong item, or isn’t as described. We’ll send a prepaid return label and make it right with a replacement or a refund. Orders placed November 1–December 24 can be reported through January 15.
Not covered: change of mind, compatibility issues, and opened sealed trading-card products.
Email support@coolection.com with your order number. Read the full Refund Policy.
Atari 5200
Moon Patrol
$34.99
Offering on several items? Build an offer list →
Submitting an offer does not guarantee acceptance. Items aren’t held while an offer is open, and prices can change until then. We reply within 1–2 business days.
Atari 5200
Moon Patrol
$34.99
Real photos of this exact item: we’ll photograph what you ask for and email them to you, usually within 1–2 business days.
