MotoRace USA

You start from Los Angeles, making refueling stops in Las Vegas, Houston, St. Louis, and Chicago, and wind up in fabulous New York City, your final destination.

You drive down the L.A. freeway, through the Vegas desert, over the Texas roadways, in and out of the Midwest backwoods, and around the treacherous curves of the industrial megalopolis of the East Coast. Obstacles include cars, trees, puddles, rivers, bends in the road, rocks, trucks that drop barrels, and cactus.

The game is viewed from above the motorcycle, until you approach any one of the cities. Then it is time for the first person perspective 3-D graphics to take over. To the right of the game a score table indicates how much fuel is left, how far between the cities your bike is, the cycle's speed in miles per hour, and your present ranking in the best scores of the day.

Once you reach a city, you get a bonus score for your speed ranking from 20,000 points for being number one to zero for a poor ranking, and a bonus for fuel that is left over. At this point, you gain a little more fuel and take off again. You can gain additional fuel at random places on the route as well as bonus points for taking narrow paths or bridges (the values are indicated on the board); for doing wheelies (by driving over white strips on highways that are marked "wheelies"); or jumping over rivers (marked "jump").

You can crash as often as you like, but you can lose a substantial amount of fuel when you do. If you run out of fuel, the game ends. But continuous play is available. You begin the trip with 500 CCs, but the fuel is used quickly.

The Throttle button revs up the engine convincingly, and the Brake button feels like the real thing. The highlights on the trip are the identifying details for the different geographical areas, such as the palm trees in California, cactus in Nevada, and the picture postcard cities on the horizon as the motorcycle approaches.Once you reach New York, "VIVA N.Y." flashes, The Statue Of Liberty waves, and "The Star-Spangled Banner" plays. The game starts all over again from L.A., with a higher speed bike, and you are awarded a full tank of gas.

The cabinet is a standard Williams type with a dirt bike and rider doing a wheelie stenciled on the side.

LICENSOR: Irem

The game is also known as Traverse USA and Zippy Race.