Road Fighter remake

About the remake

This game was developed for the RETRO-REMAKES REMAKE COMPETITION hoping to win a prize! ;) We hope that you can enjoy playing it as much as we have enjoyed developing it!! As soon as we hear the results from the competition, we'll place the results here!

Instructions

In Road Fighter you drive a car in a death race between you and a group of crazy drivers. To play the game, you just need three keys: left, right and accelerate. All three can be redefined in the main menu. During the game, you can go back to the main menu by pressing the escape key. You can press the backspace key if you want to restart a game. To pause the game press F1

The game is divided in 6 stages. In every stage, the goal is to reach the checkpoint before your car runs out of fuel. Easy? It may sound like it, but there are many obstacles between your car and the checkpoints!

The drivers in the green cars are unlucky enough to be on the same road where your crazy race is taking place.
The drivers in the blue cars are your adversaries. You can usually go faster than them, but don't get overconfident; they can surprise you!
In the purple cars, the drivers are very suicidal. They will try to crash into you when you pass them.
You'd better avoid these slow driving monsters!
Riding throught water will slow down your car
Driving through oil is a bad idea, since it will make your car spin! You'd better avoid these slow driving monsters!
You shouldn't crash on a rock... if you can!

During the race, you should try not to hit the borders of the road. Beware of the other cars, because they sometimes will try to push you to the border and make you crash. Another important issue is the fuel. You should try to collect all the fuel recharges that you can during the game. They are represented by the pink hearts.

To play RoadFighter, just execute the RoadFighter.exe executable file. The main menu can be browsed using cursor keys, space and the escape keys:

cursor up/cursor down: browsing among options
space/cursor right: selecting an option
escape/cursor left: go to the previous menu

To play the game, just select 1 or 2 players. Then you can choose a game level:

GAME A: For novices. You may want to play in this mode the first time you play the game.
GAME B: For advanced players. The game is quite hard to complete in this game level.
GAME C: For crazy players. In this game levels, you will have serious problems to end the game.

Screenshots

Forum

On the BRAINGAMES forum, you can read a lot of info about Road Fighter, you can read us planning the remake, suggesting improvements and finally read all about the stress we had before the deadline :) Also, if you find any bugs in the remake, or you want to suggest improvements for the remake, or just want to have a nice chat, the forum is the place to go!

You can access the Road Fighter specific part of the forum here, the main forum page can be viewed here.

Download

You can download this cool remake in a 6MB ZIP file. Get it from here:

http://www.braingames.getput.com/roadf/download/RoadFighter.zip.

Get the source-code (compatible with Win32, LINUX and Mac OS X) from here (thanks to Manuel Bilderbeek for the LINUX conversion):

http://www.braingames.getput.com/roadf/download/RF-sources.zip.
To compile the game you will need the following libraries: SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_sound, SDL_ttf, SDL_image and SGE. You can obtain them visiting the web: http://www.libsdl.org.

Credits

The credits for this remake go to:

Programming: Santi Ontañón
Graphics: Miikka Poikela
Music/SFX: Jorrith Schaap
Beta Testing: Jason Eames, Miikka Poikela, Jorrith Schaap, Santi Ontañón

Disclaimer

This is the unofficial remake of Konami's ROAD FIGHTER which was originally released in 1985 for the MSX home computer systems. Making sure that Konami won't sue us, we are telling you that we are not related to Konami in any way except for liking their excellent games. Also, this is a not-for-profit remake. So, we don't get any money from remaking this or any other Konami titles.