APB takes its name from police radio shorthand for an all-points bulletin, and the game does exactly what the title implies. Atari Games put it into arcades in 1987 with an unusual premise: you are a traffic officer who has to meet an arrest quota each shift. You patrol a top-down road, sound your siren at speeders, pick up minor offences, and avoid wrecking your own car or hitting civilians along the way. Every day has a target, and missing it ends your run.

What keeps APB interesting is its humour and its structure. Arcades were full of games about shooting; this was a game about gathering evidence, chasing a specific suspect and pulling in at a donut stand between shifts. The cabinet itself was distinctive, styled after a patrol car and using a dedicated control setup. The Commodore Amiga version published by Domark brought the coin-op home, which in 1987 meant compromises in smoothness and sound, but the core loop survived the translation intact.

The Amiga was a reasonable host for this kind of conversion: it handled colourful graphics and decent scrolling, and a joystick suited the arcade control scheme far better than a keyboard would have. Today APB works as a reminder of a period when coin-ops competed on premise as much as on technology, before licensed properties took over the arcade floor. It is a single-player game, and our entry carries a profile with release details and screen material.