Motor Mania
Motor Mania is a top-down, vertically scrolling racing game written by John Fitzpatrick for the Commodore 64 and published by UMI in 1982, the year the system was released.
Motor Mania
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- 1982
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- racing video game
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Motor Mania is a top-down, vertically scrolling racing game written by John Fitzpatrick for the Commodore 64 and published by UMI in 1982, the year the system was released.
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• Title — Motor Mania • Publisher — UMI • Designer — John Fitzpatrick • Released — 1982 • Genre — Racing • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Commodore 64
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The player drives an old-style racing car through different types of tracks avoiding enemy drivers, obstacles on the road such as nails, oil, broken glass, boulders and a fire engine at a crossroad. The game has 9 levels of difficulty.
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