Pacific Coast Highway

If either player dies, the level starts over. Ron Rosen later wrote the scrolling shooter Rosen's Brigade and the platform game Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory, both released in 1983.

• Title — Pacific Coast Highway • Developer — Datasoft • Publisher — Datasoft • Programmer — Ron Rosen • Platforms — Atari 8-bit • Released — 1982 • Genre — Action • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

• Illustration — The highway screen with the rolling sidewalk shown in gray. Each player starts at the bottom of the screen and the goal is to reach the top. Player one is a rabbit and player two, if present, is a tortoise. The difference between the two is entirely visual, and the tortoise and hare theme is not present elsewhere. The first screen is the highway from the title, with eight lanes of traffic to avoid, divided in the center by a median strip (called a "rolling sidewalk" in the manual). The second screen is water-themed, and players must hop on the boats and rafts to reach the top. The median strip equivalent for the water is a row of connected life preservers. In later levels the median strip and life preservers move, first in one direction only, then randomly switching. Getting hit by a vehicle results in an ambulance taking the character away (or a rescue boat for the water sequence), and the level restarts for both players. The manual describes the second screen as crossing a beach of hot sand by jumping on towels and surfboards, but this isn't present in the game itself.