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*  GREAT AMERICAN CROSS   *
* DOCS BY Brian Hendricks *
*   COUNTRY ROAD RACE     *
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* OBJECT *

     TO complete the selected road course using your driving skills & 
reflexes. Avoiding crashing, radar traps, running out of gas, or blowing 
up your engine. 

* GAME PLAY *

     You start out by choosing a field 1 - 8 (high score screen) Then 
after you have selected a field. The menu will say "Play this course?" 
You will have to answer "Y" or "N". If you pick no, you will be given a 
choice of three more courses. If you pick yes, Then you will be told to 
"START ENGINE". hit the start key, and you will see a map of the U. S. , 
Before starting out you must pick a route to your destination by 
toggling the joystick either up/down or left/right. After picking your 
route hit the OPTION key for the next departure time, Then hit START key 
to start the game. 

* DRIVING *

     To drive your car you have to know basically how a stick shift 
works. To go; Press on the fire button for acceleration, To shift to 2nd 
take your finger off the button, push the joystick forward and then push 
the button again. Build your speed up to about 48-55mph then shift to 
3rd cont. to build speed till you get to about 75mph then shift to 4th 
and bring your speed up to about 123mph. After that its up to your 
driving skills and luck. The car can go up to as fast as 240mph, but 
that is dangerous. A safe way to see if your shifting is correct, make 
sure you shift not higher than 9000 rpm on the tach or you will blow 
your engine. To brake pull down on the joystick. 

* GAS, RADAR, and Other Pitfalls *

     In the game you start out with a full tank of gas, as you drive you 
will see on the screen "GAS ON LEFT/RIGHT". When your gas gage reads 
1/4, or the low fuel warning goes off you must stop for gas. To do this 
you must slow down to about 55mph or so and when you see the gas pump on 
the right/left by braking, pull up next to the pump until the screen 
says "FILLER UP". After you filled it up, take off also if you run out 
of gas or if you blow up your engine. The screen will say "push to pump 
"To "push" press to button on the joystick rapidly. Remember once your 
speed is up to 32mph that is the maximum speed for pushing. by pushing 
the joystick button constantly the brakes will not work, so slow down 
and coast up to the pump successfully your engine will be repaired and 
your gas tank will be filled up. If you are not successful you will have 
to push your car to the next pump. 

     Another pitfall is "RADAR" if you happen to be driving over 55mph 
and see the radar warning light, you have three choices. 1)speed up to 
240mph and try to out run him. 2)maintain your speed and get "pulled 
over" which will cost you 30 sec.  or so of time(which can be much 
needed to complete the course)or 3)slow down to under 55mph.  which also 
cost you time. 

     The last two pitfalls are the steering test and adverse 
road/weather conditions(snow, rain, ice, fog, sleet, night time driving, 
driving into the sunset, road work) Avoid these at all costs. These will 
occur while traveling from one point to another on your map. Just toggle 
your joystick in a different direction to avoid these problems. 

* COMPETING for TIME and WINNING *

     As you travel from one point to another you are competing for time, 
If you are 638 miles away from Billings and your allotted time is 7 
minutes and you complete the trip in 5 minutes and 40 seconds. The extra 
time is added to your next leg of the course. REMBER you are competing 
against the clock, so the faster you go the better your time will be. 
When(or if)you make it to the end of the course and the screen says 
"COURSE COMPLETD", and if your score is one of the top ten you will be 
asked if you want to save your time to your disk, if you do simply hit 
"Y" and type in your name and date. Now that you have finished this 
course you have three more different ones to pick from. The hardest one 
being the U. S.  tour, because you must stop at every city on the map.  


GOOD LUCK!