Auto Racing

The action moves through six levels spread over three different cities, each based on a real US city: Liberty City (based on New York City), San Andreas (based on San Francisco) and Vice City (based on Miami).

To finish a level, a certain score must be reached.

Stealing cars and crashing into traffic, driving over pedestrians and killing cops all raise the score, but the big points are made through jobs.

Answering phones or entering special cars brings mission assignments, from simple "ditch-a-hot-car" jobs to supporting bank robberies or carrying out assassinations.

Completing a mission will raise the score substantially and also increase the score multiplier, so that completing the next felony will gain even more points.

Criminal behavior comes with a price of course: if policemen witness a crime, the player's wanted level rises.

At the lowest level, a single police car might give chase, whereas at the highest level whole car squads hunt the player, the police set up roadblocks and shoot to kill.

The only way to evade the cops is to find a respray shop and get a new paint job with new license plates.

This costs money which is deducted from the score, however.

But even dying or being arrested are not the end.

The player has several lives, and ending up in jail simply results in being stripped of all weapons and armor and the score multiplier being lowered.

The entire action is viewed from a top-down perspective, which zooms out while driving a car, for a better overview at high speeds.

The cities are many screens large and can be freely explored.

Crates are scattered over the cities, which might include weapons (from pistols to rocket launchers), armor or other bonus items: extra lives, police bribes (used to reduce the wanted level to zero) and get-out-of-

Auto Racing for Atari 2600 is currently worth €9.53 loose. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Auto Racing has only a handful of tracked market sales, suggesting relative scarcity compared to more common Atari 2600 titles.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. These are tracked as separate market values because the price gap between them can be significant, especially for older releases.

The PAL version of Auto Racing is currently worth €9.53 loose, versus €8.67 for NTSC-U. Regional price differences usually come down to print run size and regional collector demand.