{"id":49,"date":"2023-05-21T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldfartplayingoldgames.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2023-05-21T20:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T20:34:43","slug":"pacific-coast-highway-for-atari-8-bit-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldfartplayingoldgames.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/21\/pacific-coast-highway-for-atari-8-bit-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Coast Highway for Atari 8-Bit Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pacific Coast Highway is a 1982 video game written by Ron Rosen and published by Datasoft for the Atari family of 8-bit computers. The game is a Frogger clone, but it differs a bit, due to the road and water portions of the game being separated into two different screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the game, the player controls a rabbit (in two-player games, the second player controls a tortoise.) The object of the game is to get your character from the bottom of the screen, up to the top of the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pacific Coast Highway for Atari 8-Bit Computers\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7422oOJC58?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=t7422oOJC58%3Ffeature%3Doembed\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each player starts at the bottom of the screen and the goal is to reach the top. Player one is a rabbit and player two, if present, is a tortoise. The difference between the two is entirely visual, and the tortoise and hare theme is not present elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first screen is the highway from the title, with eight lanes of traffic to avoid, divided in the center by a median strip (called a \u201crolling sidewalk\u201d in the manual).[5] The second screen is water-themed, and players must hop on the boats and rafts to reach the top. The median strip equivalent for the water is a row of connected life preservers. In later levels, the median strip and life preservers move, first in one direction only, then randomly switching. Getting hit by a vehicle results in an ambulance taking the character away (or a rescue boat for the water sequence).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To download Pacific Coast Highway and its manual,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atarimania.com\/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-pacific-coast-highway_3853.html\">visit the Atarimania website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230407223909\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oldfartplaying1\" target=\"_blank\">Follow me on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oldfartplayingoldgames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Follow me on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/oldfartplayingoldgames\" target=\"_blank\">Follow me on Twitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Coast Highway is a 1982 video game written by Ron Rosen and published by Datasoft for the Atari family of 8-bit computers. 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