Coyote Roadrunner Desert Race
L&M Software
Docs

This is probably one of the most unusual races you have ever seen! Coyote-Roadrunner Desert Race is a two player game with all of the excitement and thrill that a race can generate.

Hand controls #1 and #2 are used in this game. The knob changes speed, the joystick controls the direction and the trigger initiates a checking sequence which will be explained later. At the beginning of the game each player starts in zone 1, the desert area below each mountain range is the race track. Zone 1 is full of rock piles, in the upper left hand corner of the screen is one of those rock piles with a # by it. This # indicates the # of rock piles your runner must eat before reaching the other end of zone 1. To accomplish this you steer (using the joystick and knob) your runner to one of the many piles of rocks in your area and then begin to trace over this object with as few unnecessary moves as possible. Each unnecessary move will allow your opponent to gain on you.

Oh! By the way, your opponent will be on the other track trying to do the same thing you are, only faster. The instant you have eaten 1 of the objects, squeeze your trigger. The word checking will appear. At this point the computer will check to see if the player who squeezes his trigger has done a complete job. If not the computer will print "incomplete" and the game will continue. If there is nothing left of the object, the computer will print "complete," indicating to that player that he has 1 less object to eat before reaching the end of that zone.

At the end of that zone, if you have eaten the proper # of objects, the computer will advance your player to the next zone, which includes a new section of mountains and different objects on the track for you to eat. There are three zones to be completed, on the left hand side of the screen there are three objects, one for each of the three zones and the # of each object to be eaten. The first player to reach the end of zone three after having consumed the necessary objects is the winner.