Highway Race

Highway Race is a racing arcade game that was released by Taito Corporation in 1983; it runs on the company's SJ System hardware, and the player has to use a 2-directional joystick to steer an always-accelerating car over four international courses ("Asian Course", "American Course", "African Course" and "European Course"), with two buttons that will make it jump and brake. If the car should bump up against the sides of the courses it will lose a little of its fuel, but if it crashes into a CPU-controlled car, it will explode (costing it a larger amount of its fuel), and get resurrected just before where it crashed - however, during each course, the car will come across a refuelling truck, and it is possible to refuel by getting the car to touch either of the nozzles on the truck's sides (without crashing into the truck itself). Towards the end of each course, the numbers "80", "60", "40", "20" and "00" shall appear on the road; these indicate the distance until the end of the road, and the player has to jump before the final one to avoid crashing into the water (which will immediately end the game) and land on a platform. When the car lands on the platform, the player must push the Brake Button to deploy the car's parachute before it hits the barricade at the end of the platform - and if it halts in time, it will proceed to the next course.