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The Great American Cross-Country Road Race
''The Great American Cross-Country Road Race'' (UK re-release title: ''American Road Race'') is a racing video game written by Alex DeMeo for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Activision in 1985. It was ported to the Apple II and Commodore 64 The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness .... The game is in part an adaptation of an earlier Activision game '' Enduro'', created for the Atari 2600 console, but with design, graphics and sound expanded to fit the capabilities of the more powerful computers. Gameplay The game puts the player in the position of a driver of a high-performance car, racing across the United States while passing through its major cities. Obstacles include weather, road conditions, limited fuel, and the highway patrol. The changing time of day affe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Activision
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher in 2016. The company was founded as Activision, Inc. on October 1, 1979 in Sunnyvale, California, by former Atari game developers upset at their treatment by Atari in order to develop their own games for the popular Atari 2600 home video game console. Activision was the first independent, third-party, console video game developer. The video game crash of 1983, in part created by too many new companies trying to follow in Activision's footsteps without the expertise of Activision's founders, hurt Activision's position in console games and forced the company to diversify into games for home computers, including the acquisition of Infocom. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of The Lamps
''Master of the Lamps'' is a music video game published in 1985 by Activision. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and MSX. Plot The death of an Arabian prince's father, the king, shatters three enchanted oil lamps, freeing the three genies trapped within. The genies overrun the palace; to contain them, the prince must reassemble the three broken lamps. The player, in the role of the prince wearing a white thawb and red keffiyeh, must journey into the seven dens of each genie, as each den contains one of the lamp pieces. Gameplay Gameplay alternates between two modes. In the first, the prince maneuvers a flying carpet through a winding tunnel to a genie's den. In practice, this requires the player to direct the carpet over diamond-shaped gates as they appear; failure to do so returns the prince to the beginning of the tunnel. Once in the den, the second mode, the player strikes a gong thrice to summon the genie. The genie draws fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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