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| Ambulance | |
|---|---|
 Box cover (courtesy of the Living Computer Museum) | |
| Publisher(s) | Funware |
| Designer(s) | Kent Stevenson [1] |
| Platform(s) | TI-99/4A |
| Release | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
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The object of the game is to pick up patients and race them to the hospital. There is a limited amount of time to deliver the patients to the hospital and you must avoid the different obstacles on different levels.
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