Buggy Boy

The object of the game is to drive around one of five courses (Offroad, North, East, South or West) in the shortest time possible. Each course has five legs filled with obstacles such as boulders and brick walls. Points are awarded for driving through gates and collecting flags. Offroad is a closed-circuit course that takes five laps to complete while North, South, East, and West are each a strict point A to point B style course.

The player can hit logs and tree stumps in order to jump the buggy over obstacles, gaining extra points while airborne. Extra points are rewarded for driving the buggy on two wheels.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Buggy Boy on their September 1, 1985 issue as being the third most-popular upright arcade game for the previous two weeks. It went on to be one of the Japan's top five highest-grossing upright/cockpit arcade games of 1986. In the United States, Speed Buggy was one of the top five highest-grossing dedicated arcade games of 1986.

Computer and Video Games reviewed the arcade game, giving it a positive review. The review said, "if you've got nerves of steel," prepare "for the ride of your life."

According to Andy Smith of Advanced Computer Entertainment magazine in 1988, Sega's arcade game Power Drift (1988) combined elements from Out Run (1986) with those of Buggy Boy.