Slot Racers is a two-player maze game. Unlike other early games for the Atari 2600, like Indy 500 (1977) or Blackjack (1977), where the title of the game implied the theme of the game, Slot Racers is not about slot car racing. The game's setting has each player controlling a "Super Chasemobile", a car that is equipped with powerful technology. Each player steers their vehicle through a maze where they fire missiles at each other from the front of their car. The goal is to chase the opponent and attempt to hit them with one of the missiles the player can fire from the front of their own car. Each hit on an enemy's car gives the player one point. The first player to get 25 points first wins.
There are nine variations of games that adjust the layout of the maze, the speed of the cars, the missiles, and the direction of the missile path. Depending on the difficulty modes set, the player can either fire consecutive missiles where one missile will vanish if another is fired, or another mode where only one missile can be fired at a time; missiles must either hit the opponent's car or otherwise be re-collected by driving over it.
Slot Racers is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
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