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This is a motor race simulation. On the left of the screen you have a speedometer, a fuel game, and current and highest scores. To the right you have a plan view of a race track with wide and narrow sections.

There are other cards on the track, moving at their own speeds, and you have to try to avoid contact with them.

While the program provided good and colourful graphics and a clear sense of competition with the other cars, there were some slight weaknesses.

When the speedometer shows zero speed, your car is still moving at a rate of knots, and you may think you are getting somewhere, but the score does not increase.

When fuel is exhausted, a distorted off-key version of the start of the funeral march is played. For anyone who has lost friends in motor racing accidents, this seems crass bad taste, to put it mildly. It is scarcely cheerful for anyone.

D.T.