Racetrack

Moby ID: 111114

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Released

1976 on HP Programmable Calculator

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Publishers

Hewlett-Packard Company Users' Library

Moby Score: n/a

Genre: Racing / Driving
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Pacing: Turn-based
Interface: Text parser
Vehicular: Automobile

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: Magnetic Card
Number of Offline Players: 1-5 Players

See Also

Racetrack (1974 on Terminal)
Racetrack (1978 on Mainframe)
Racetrack (1982 on TRS-80 CoCo)

Description

Racetrack is based on a pencil and paper game published in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American (May, 1973). Up to five contestants can input their acceleration (direction and magnitude) each turn while racing on an elliptical track. The HP programmable calculator checks for collision with the track's bounds and updates the racers to the new position. It's up to the players to keep track of where everybody is.

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Genre: Paper-and-pencil game - Racetrack

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The Racetrack
Released 1983 on TRS-80

TS: The Racetrack: Aurora-Chicago
Released 2015 on Windows

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MobyGames ID: 111114

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Game added by vedder.

Game added July 9, 2018. Last modified February 22, 2023.