| Motor Mania | |
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| Publisher(s) | UMI |
| Designer(s) | John Fitzpatrick [1] |
| Platform(s) | Commodore 64 |
| Release | 1982 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Motor Mania is a top-down, vertically scrolling racing game written by John Fitzpatrick for the Commodore 64 and published by UMI in 1982, [1] the year the system was released.
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The player drives an old-style racing car through different types of tracks avoiding enemy drivers, obstacles on the road such as nails, oil, [2] broken glass, boulders and a fire engine at a crossroad. The game has 9 levels of difficulty. [3]
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