Richard Garriott (Lord British), is a LEGEND in the computer game community, He is probably best known for his Ultima series of games, that led to Ultima Online. Now he's so rich he's into space tourism. Lord British and Origin Systems (his company) created some of the best RPG computer games of the 80's and "Autoduel" is one of them. "Autoduel" is based on the popular combat simulation (physical game) "Car Wars". "Autoduel" is a post-apocalyptic RPG where civilization has devolved into a "Mad Max" type of world with people in cars combating each other, and plays like a combination of "Ultima" and "Spy Hunter". It's a great game, and the post-apocalyptic theme is one of my very favorite things about it (I get tired of dragons and hobbits). One sad thing is that Steve Jackson Games has asked that the game be removed from all Abandonware sites because it's still under copyright, but you can't buy it because they don't sell it anymore. I just think this kind of logic is flawed. It's a fantastic masterpiece of a game, they can't sell it, but they don't want you to play it if you didn't buy it when they did sell it. You would think Steve could use the publicity of letting people play it for free to promote some other project, or at least sell it, but don't just stick the game in limbo. Anyhow, whatever, it's a fantastic game.
Autoduel on Gamebase64
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