Getaway! (video game)

Getaway!
Manual with a sticker added after winning the Atari Star award.
Publisher(s)Atari Program Exchange
Designer(s)Mark Reid[1]
Platform(s)Atari 8-bit
Release1982
Genre(s)Maze

Getaway! is a crime-themed, multidirectional-scrolling maze game for Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed by Mark Reid and published by the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1982.[1] In Getaway!, the player drives around a large city stealing cash, valuable items, and the contents of armored trucks, then must return the loot to their hideout. Three different police vehicles pursue, getting more aggressive as more crimes are committed.

The game won the 1983 $25,000 Atari Star Award for best APX submission,[2][3] but promotion of the game was affected by the video game crash of 1983. The Atari Program Exchange also sold 2 × 3 foot posters of the Getaway! city map.

  1. ^ a b Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
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