Racer

published by Atari in 1982, developed by Roklan Software, running on Atari 2600 VCS
This game has not passed the prototype stage.
type: racing/driving
perspective: bird's-eye auto-scroll
player options: single player, shared-screen
other: Prototype
languages: other

Description

1 player or 2 players simultaneous competitive/concurrent.
The first 2600 game developed by Roklan. The game features the Atari logo (they intended to offer it to Atari for publishing?). One or two racers proceed to race down the road that scrolls vertically. Beginning with wide gentle turns and eventually improbably narrow or filled with arbitrary obstacles. It relentlessly increases in speed at set intervals unless the teddy bear mode (easy/child mode) was selected. Two players can bump each other into walls and cross to the other side of the screen if they so choose but each racer is by default, assigned one half of the screen which is a mirror of the other player's side. The courses for one and two player modes are identicle (one player always races on 'two player tracks').

(Zerothis) - # 2009-08-29 20:20:19

Technical specs

display: raster

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