Car Wars Is Back! (Maybe?)

I'm going to be writing up a lengthier Retro Game Review for Car Wars next week of those of you not familiar with this '80s classic. This is a game from Steve Jackson Games in Austin, Texas, and it's easily one of my favorite games of all time. The premise is simple -- in the future when gasoline and other resources are scarce, it's every man for himself on the open highway as drivers duel against one another with armored cars equipped with heavy weaponry. Using small one inch 2D chits of colored images showing top-down views of cars, players would take turns maneuvering their vehicles into proper firing position or maybe just gunning the engine to slam into an opponent. Obstacles such as oil slicks on the road and debris from other vehicles provided extra danger as the cars raced side by side down strips of road that you'd place and remove as the cars continued to move in one direction or another.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/car-wars-is-back-maybe/

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