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Drive 100 miles competing in this race, avoid crashing into the barriers and the other competitors. Once loaded, achieved easily, the program asks for the background colour - buff, a pleasant option; green, bright and a bit hard on the eyes; or black, which is best for a black and white TV and was my preference, even on a colour screen.

A brief display of the joystick controls and away. The controls are left and right with up for fast and down for slow. Your car is at the bottom of the screen and the track and other cars scroll down towards you.

The colourful insert contains brief instructions - it fails to explain that travelling fast scores twice the points.

On completion of the course, your score is kept on a chart, if high enough, but not your name. Graphics are good but the sound is a trifle on the raucous side.

Often simple games are effective. However, this game is too simple, the difficulty level does not increase and, once mastered, its interest wanes.

In fact, my interest waned after a few plays.

It was too slow for my tastes, even though it is in machine code, and provided no real challenge.

R.F.