Subject: Re: Searching for car game...
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 15:21:01 -0500
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Burton Radons wrote in message <37fe8666.100420795@news.cow-net.com>...
>When I was six, I saw a game on an Apple IIe that has stuck
>in my mind ever since.  I want to get it again to see
>whether memory was being overly kind to it or if it really
>was a great game.
>
>I saw the box once.  I believe it was red, with a closeup of
>an evil-looking man in a car.  But that can't be trusted.
>
>In the game, you could drive between seperate cities, maybe
>the whole continental US with a few cities.  There was land
>between the cities to drive through, I don't remember much
>of that; I remember garages and a gladiator arena.  You
>could walk about on foot in the cities.  Maybe you had to.
>I think cities were a single screen only.
>
>If this is a well-known and respected game, I'm sure that
>would be enough to recognize it, and if it isn't, I'll keep
>trying to reproduce this mythical game, and will eventually
>succeed.  I doubt I'd recognize the name.  Thanks a lot for
>any help.
>
>- Burton Radons, loth@cow-net.com
>Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
>(main) http://csoft.net/~loth/index.shtml
>(railway) http://xnot.com/railway

Perhaps you're thinking of Autoduel. If you want to try it out on your
emulator
go to ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/rpg/