YouTube Short: B.C.’s Quest for Tires

by The Old Fart Playing Old Games

B.C.’s Quest for Tires is a horizontally scrolling video game designed by Rick Banks and Michael Bate and published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. Versions were released for the Commodore 64, IBM PC, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II. Based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart, BC’s Quest for Tires is similar to Irem’s Moon Patrol from the previous year. The title is a play on the title of the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire. A sequel, Grog’s Revenge, was released in 1984. In retrospect, the title has been referred to as the first endless runner game.