Atari CX-2600 manual Strategy

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You can also receive 20 bonus points for permanently passing an enemy car. To do this, you must stay ahead of him until he disappears off the bottom of the radar. If he comes up from behind and passes you again, you receive no bonus points.

Look for yellow diamonds alongside the road. You will see the diamonds after you destroy enemy vehicles. Grab one of these to restore your car's engine and armor. In addition, you can replace your fuel and ammunition by running over dots along the way. Green dots replace bullets and blue dots replace fuel. If you still have fuel remaining when you run over a blue dot, you will receive 20 bonus points. If you have run out of fuel, you receive no bonus points.

Once you reach a city, the screen will display the city's status. If you reach the city in time to save any of its inhabitants, the survivors appear on the screen. You receive bonus points for each person you save. You can use your bonus points to upgrade the condition of your vehicle or purchase fuel.

If you arrive too late to save the city, fewer survivors appear and you receive fewer bonus points.

After you receive your bonus points, press the fire button. A message from headquarters appears on your screen. Read the message, then press the fire button. The Vehicle Upgrade screen appears. To upgrade your vehicle or purchase fuel, move the controller up or down until your selection highlights. Then move your controller right to purchase the highlighted item. After purchasing upgrades, highlight the word Go and press the fire button.

If you arrive safely at the rocket base, the rocket will launch the world-saving satellite and you will win the game.

Strategy

Learn which store items you need to purchase at the cities. If you are really good at acquiring the off- road yellow diamonds, you may only need to purchase better tires and fuel at most stops.

Watch out for cars behind you! Quick braking will destroy them without damage to your car.

Learn to power surge. Head-on collisions hurt more than just your car's expensive paint job.

Go off the right side of the road immediately after destroying an enemy vehicle and you might get a valuable diamond.

Scoring

Ramming Enemy Car

10 points

Shooting Enemy Car

10 points

Completing Road Segment

10 points

Running Over Blue Fuel Dot With Fuel Remaining

20 points

Permanently Passing Enemy Car

20 points

Destroying Enemy Car

200 points

Picking Up Yellow Diamond

500 points

After you have finished each level, you will have accumulated 1800 points for the road segments completed within that level.

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