River Patrol (video game)

River Patrol (Japanese: リバーパトロール, Hepburn: Ribā Patorōru) is an action arcade video game developed by Orca Corporation and released by GGI in Japan in 1981.

[2] The player pilots a patrol boat along a vertically scrolling river to rescue people from the crocodile-infested waters while avoiding obstacles along the way.

[3] Once all lives are lost, the game is over unless the player inserts more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing.

[9] A bootleg version of the game developed by Falcon titled Silver Land was also released, changing the main premise to skiing.

[11][12] After the release of River Patrol into the market, Orca would go on to work on several projects: The Percussor, The Bounty, Looper, Springer, Funky Bee, Slalom and Sky Lancer, Vastar (published by Sesame Japan Corporation),[5][13][14] and Espial, among others.

A swimmer in trouble is to the left of the patrol boat (arcade).