Dodge 'em
is a car driving game that's kind of like
Pac-Man. You drive a car around a track collecting...umm...whatever the
hell it is that you collect (they are dots) and try not to run into the other
cars. Dodge 'em is different from Pac-Man in that in Dodge 'em, you can
only move forward within the track, you can speed up by pressing the fire button
and instead of a maze, you have 4 lanes of
race track. You move counterclockwise around the track and the other cars
move clockwise. You can only change lanes in four places, so if another
car is in your lane once you have passed the lane change area, you will hit them
head on and loose one of your cars. You gain points by picking up dots and
you get bonus points for completing a level and moving on to the next
level. There are a total of 15 levels broken up into 3 sets of 5.
You start off the game with 3 cars. If you crash, you lose one car.
Also, if you never crash, you lose a car after every 5 levels. The most
points that you can score per level is 72 (after the bonus). The score
flips at 1000 and goes back to 0. You can score 80 more points after the
score flips for a total of 1080 points (I have yet to figure out a way to score
more than 1080 points per game). In the 2 player variation of the game,
Player 1 plays until he crashes or until he completes 5 levels (whichever comes
first), then it is player 2's turn. This game is pretty easy to find for cheap. I like it quite a
bit, but I can see how it could get old relatively quickly. |
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