Game with vhs feel

Eighties – whole age. Videocassettes, first home computers, new age in entertainment history, appearance of musical television, hard to believe super projects of Soviet Union, Buran project.

Intro for the game is made in style to remind 80s style, and it is made based on 8 bit computers style. And, it is not correct. It is some stylization. Some kind of MSX2 can do this. Who know this, today. So here we have a stylization effect.

Let’s make a setup for a road. A long road. Road with blue colored silhouette is going forward. And everything is dark around. Picture of a police signal. Just like it is also a intro for some action movie about car. Road theme. And, also theme of videocassettes. Videocassettes are appeared in 80s.

It is the right time to remember your favorite action movies, movies about policeman, about cars. Lethal enforcement, Knight Rider, Mad Max. Do you ever dream to seat in the KITT from Knight Rider? It is science fiction car with super powerful electronic helper. All of these smart buttons. Or at least to seat in some legendary muscle car, just the same style that mad max has. To set at the top a police signal and ride forward. To feel yourself as a road wolf. You have also a gun, using it you can shoot, just while you are riding. It is something like a technological pistol or revolver or shotgun. Maybe old-school or with technological powerups. Interceptor, from Mad Max, it is a car.

Also, 80s – it is a decade of 8 bit computers. Just like Zx Spectrum, MSX, MS DOS. All of these computers has some unique characteristics. Some cool features. I can remember, that some monitors has 1 color. Just like red colored of green colored. Have you ever seen MSX? These game computers were unique. They have different visual forms from different manufacturers. And also in Soviet Union there were lots of 8 bit computers. It is lots of soviet variations of Spectrum compatible computers – for example, Delta C, Leningrad, Sintez 2. And there were more interesting computers. Attempt to create its own variation of MSX – PC Sura. There were Hobbit PC, Master, Corvet, Agat. Whole park of computers.

What purpose am I writing these? Just because of it is a retro game. Game about nostalgia moment about 80s. Videocassettes, 8 bit computers. But it is made a modern way. All of these are made under impressions from 8 bit systems, 16 bit systems, MS DOS applications. Something with memories about 386SX2, 486DX2.

Game has pack of settings for your comfort. You can play in a window. With the first run game runs in a window. This is retro. 800 x 600. Or you can set from settings a fullscreen. There is language select – Russian or English. You can play with sound or without. With music or without. And also you can setup a volume for music and sound. So these are a scale of settings.

A special settings are scanlines. They are made with the most simple way. And you can setup them. You can select vertical or horizontal. And also a frequency of lines.

So, game is made like retro format. Modern retro game. About a car with shooting. Action racing. But made in retro theme. Just like for MSX2+, or PC MS DOS. But modern. By the way, all time I was a fan of Highway Star for nes. I was looking at this side.

So, you are a policeman. And you are at patrol ride. Before every race – you have a text screen with story. It is made with retro theme. White font, blue background. You can skip it. But it has a story.

By the way if you are tired of music and sound than you can turn off them or adjust volume.

At last, you are at the road. In your police car, that is equipped with computer electronics. It gives you indications. It is game interface. And it helps while you are shooting. It draws red rectangle zone of possible shot. Shooting is not fast. It is like revolver or shotgun. After a shot – it is goes auto reload.

Before taking a patrol mission you receive a task. Who to catch and how many to catch. Don’t hesitate. To catch – means to destroy. You also can run to ram them. But in this case, you will loose some life points. You have 300 life points.

This is race with shooting. So, you need to ride and shoot. It is also a patrol game type. You need to ride from point A to point B. And you are patrolling road. As a rule, there is a road traffic. Traffic from a citizens cars. For ram or shooting in civilian cars you will get score penalty. So just avoid them.

What is this life is about? It is a road! Many people can say this. Artists, truckers. And you too can say this. While you are playing this title. Everything that is existed here – it is the road. And you need to move forward. You are checking the road for criminal cases. And they are exists. You have two types of those, who above the law – bandits with jeeps and street racers, with bright colors of lowered sport cars. You need to catch them all! So, this means to shoot them all! And destroy them all! Or if you wish -go for ram. It is a choice of your taste.

Road, road. It can be so different. It is 13 missions. So, we have here a road in a city landscape. Cities are different – big and small. It is also a ride levels with country landscape through forest. So long road through the forest. Pretty realism. Missions are different from each other also with a distance you need to ride. So, it is a racing game in it is base. So, you need to complete a track from start to finish and make a task. To catch somebody. It is also a desert and a pyramids. Exotic. Sun.

From point of interest, to the end it will goes special effects. In form of snow and rain. Also, it will be a night ride. Snow and rain makes visibility less. So, one level you get in a snow in winter. So, this kind of ride gives you again some fresh new impressions. There are a tunnels, you can enter. Arks. So, there is some diversity. So, even there is 1 track about a racing circle. You need to catch several street racers, which are gone wild.

Ride a road – it is a main theme for a game. You are on wheels. And with a weapon. You are a patrol policeman. Drive carefully. Like a sheriff. There are some places on the road, when you want to go faster. Turn on a turbine. It will charge you up to maximum 280! Maximum speed is 280. So, this way you can to pass a boring place faster or reach street racer. Street racers are very fast at the very first time. And they appear with some distance between you and them. Use nearest street racer scale. For orientation.

When you will complete 13 levels that you will go for a vacation! Policeman will go to vacation! So, game has a joy final. Such summer. Sunny.

And for the last thing, scheme of control.