An enemy car heads for the player's car in Autoduel.

Autoduel is a 1985 computer role-playing game (CRPG) published by Origin Systems for the Commodore 64, Apple II series and DOS. It was released in 1988 for the Amiga. It was based on the Steve Jackson Games series Car Wars. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally use gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... Origin Systems, Inc. ... The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... Steve Jackson Games (abbreviated as SJG) is a game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. ... Car Wars is a combat board game developed by Steve Jackson Games. ...

Description

Autoduel is based on events in the future in the Northeast part of the U.S.. In this future, cars are a primary means of protection and defense and the highways are dangerous stretches of land ruled by gangs and vigilantes with armed vehicles. The player's character starts without a car and has to enter demolition derby contests using spare vehicles in order to raise enough capital to finance the creation of their own vehicle. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... Mitchell Freeway in Perth, Western Australia For other uses, see Highway (disambiguation). ... A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage in illegal activities. ... In modern terms, vigilantes are militias or police who attempt law enforcement, in the usual phrase, by taking the law into their own hands. Vigilantes often operate in secret. ... A Demolition Derby is a type of motorsport event popularised in the United States, in which drivers of old vehicles race against one another in an open arena - the objective of the game being to smash and destroy and ultimately immobilise the oppostition, until only one vehicle is left, which... Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, or a unit of account. ...

With their own vehicle, a character can begin performing courier missions between the various towns along the Atlantic seaboard—including Syracuse, Boston, Manchester and Atlantic City among a few. The character may also enter more distinguished Arena events to earn money as well as take to the highways to fight the other cars and salvage their parts. In this sense, the game was very open-ended in what the player could do. Categories: US geography stubs ... Clinton Square in Downtown Syracuse Syracuse is a city located in Onondaga County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city had a total population of 147,306, and its metropolitan area had a population of 732,117. ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub, Athens of America Location in the state of Massachusetts Founded September 17, 1630 County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ... Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County in south central New Hampshire. ... Atlantic City is a city located in Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 40,517. ...

The main feature of the game was combat involving customized vehicles. The vehicle construction portion of the game allowed a variety of power plants, guns, ammunition, mine-layers, smokescreens, oil slicks and rockets to be arranged onto an even larger selection of body and chassis types. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... This article is about firearms and similar devices. ... Boxes of ammunition clog a warehouse in Baghdad Ammunition is a generic military term meaning (the assembly of) a projectile and its propellant. ... Mine can refer to a number of things: Mines are tunnels used in mining for extraction of resources. ... A U.S. Army Humvee laying a smoke screen A smoke-screen is a release of smoke in order to mask the movement or location of military units such as infantry, tanks or ships. ... Volunteers cleaning up the aftermath of the Prestige oil spill An oil spill is the release of oil (generally, petroleum) into the natural environment, usually the ocean. ... A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ... A chassis (plural: chassis) consists of a framework which supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animals skeleton; for example in the construction of an automobile or of a firearm. ...

The game was developed using a top-down perspective and featured two distinct setting areas: the arena or highway style area and the city area. The highway and arenas allowed acceleration and driving skills to be used in a scrolling screen format, while the city area was a single screen in which stores and other attractions of a city could be visited. Top-down and Bottom-up are approaches to the software development process, and by extension to other procedures, mostly involving software. ... A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ...

See also

• Roadwar 2000

External links

• MobyGames' entry on Autoduel (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,1296/)
• ClassicGaming.com review of the game (http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/autoduel/)