A BASIC type-in found in an early eighties speccy programming book, this one apparently uses the same graphics initialisation routine as "Orchard Thief" by the same author. Both games clearly have the same style about them. This one was obviously inspired by the infamous movie "Death Race 2000" as were the far more famous and more advanced Carmageddon series of games for the PC.
In this one, you have a top-down third-person viewpoint over a rectangular arena as you use the QAOP directional controls to attempt to mow down a randomly moving pedestrian with your UDG racing car. You have a fixed time limit and the goal is to kill as many pedestrians as possible within it. Naturally, there's only ever one pedestrian on the screen at a time.
This game has a very noticable bug where the player's car graphic only points in the correct direction one iteration after it has already started moving in that direction. This causes the car to be very often moving sideways. Really, I can't imagine that this would've been incredibly difficult to fix and it does rather make the game feel a tad rushed, which could possibly be explained by the large number of listings by the same author sharing the same book.
The best thing about the game is the tombstone graphic, which appears everytime a "ped" is killed. Sound is typical BASIC listing affair, but at least the game does have sound (and colour for that matter) elevating it just above terrible.
Overall though, it is not good - you'd be forgiven for sticking strictly with Carmageddon on the PC!
