Race Chase

Posted on by

A game from a 1982 edition of Personal Computer World.

A simple concept
The missile is heading anticlockwise around the outer lane. I’m somewhere else – but obviously being redrawn when I took this screenshot
It seems odd that the score is simply 10x the number of targets hit, but displaying how long you survived is a neat touch

One other feature of this game is the score displayed in the top left corner of the screen. It represents the number of targets hit, but only updates when you press the Z or M key. Presumably the game play is too slow if it is updated for every target hit.

If you’d like to run some of the programs I’ve archived on your own MZ-80K or emulator, you can find them in my Sharp MZ-80K github repository.