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2600 Shadows

Dodge 'em 
(by Atari - CX2637)

Joystick
1 or 2 Player
3 Game Variations


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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