Vette!

The game uses a 3D, flat-shaded polygon rendering of the city, including landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and Lombard Street. It was released on three floppy disks in both a black and white and color version. A Sega Genesis version was planned, but never released.

• Title — Vette! • Developer — Sphere • Publisher — Spectrum HoloByte • Platforms — MS-DOS, Macintosh, NEC PC-9801 • Released — October 1989 • Genre — Racing • Modes — Single-player, networked multiplayer • Producer — Joe Scirica • Designer — Dan Geisler Gilman Louie • Programmer — Dan Geisler Jinda Pan Sky Chang Joe Tretinik Kus Pranawahadi Erick Jap • Artist — Dan Guerra Matt Carlstrom Jody Sather • Composer — Jinda Pan

section • Car damage that affects the engine and handling. • Full control over the game's camera views, including an interior cam with a full working dashboard. • The ability to drive anywhere within the modeled city including highways, tunnels, and bridges. • Pulling over at various gas stations that would repair the car. • Being able to run people over. • Driving erratically can attract the attention of a nearby cop, triggering a chase, which can result in getting pulled over. There are eight excuses to choose from unless charged for vehicular homicide by running over at least one pedestrian during the chase, or within close proximity of a cop. At the beginning of the game, a question from the manual requires a correct answer to prove game ownership. If the question is falsely answered, the game can be played for a limited time before a window pops up claiming "You have been caught driving a stolen Vette!", followed by the game crashing.

During the development of this game, the attack on protesting Chinese students in Tiananmen Square occurred. In memory of that event, one of the programmers snuck this string into the program executable: "IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WERE MURDERED IN TIAN-AN-MEN SQUARE ON JUNE 4, 1989. J.P. "