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'''''Car Wars''''' is a video game for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer. ''Car Wars'' is a clone of the 1979 Sega game [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_On_(video_game) ''Head On'']. The player controls a car starting at the bottom of the screen and navigates it through an open grid full of dots. The object is to collect all the dots while avoiding crashing into other cars. The player's car is always moving counter-clockwise. The player, who can never stop the car or change direction, is only able to control the relative speed of the car and move the car across one or two lines of the grid. After the player comes close to collecting all the dots, the other cars begin speeding up.
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'''''Car Wars''''' is a video game for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer. ''Car Wars'' is a clone of the 1979 Sega game [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_On_(video_game) ''Head On'']. The player controls a car starting at the bottom of the screen and navigates it through an open grid full of dots. The object is to collect all the dots while avoiding crashing into other cars. The player's car is always moving counter-clockwise. The player, who can never stop the car or change direction, is only able to control the relative speed of the car and move the car across one or two lines of the grid. After the player comes close to collecting all the dots, the other cars begin speeding up.
{{Infobox video game
| collapsible =
| image = Car Wars Manual.jpg
| alt = Car Wars Manual Cover
| caption = Car Wars Manual (Front Cover) <ref>{{cite web|title=TI99ers On-Line User Group: TI-99 Cartridge Listing|url=http://www.ti99ers.org/timeline/cartbytitle.html#C}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=TI-99/4A Video Game House: Car Wars|url=https://www.videogamehouse.net/carwars.html}}</ref>
| publisher = [[Texas Instruments|Texas Instruments (TI)]]
| part = PHM 3054
| price = $39.95 (USD)
}}
'''Car Wars''' was programmed by [[Jim Dramis]] (creator of both [[Munch Man]] and [[Parsec]]). It was released in November of [[:Category:1981 Software|1981]] and distributed on [[:Category:Solid State Software Command Module|Solid State Software<sup>TM</sup> Command Module]]. Car Wars originally sold for $39.95 (USD).
Movement on the screen can be controlled by the Wired Remote Controllers or from the keyboard.
[[File:Car Wars 1000px- 1018.gif|center]]
===Getting Started===
* [http://www.videogamehouse.net/carwars.html TI-99/4A Video Game House: Car Wars]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070412064248/http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM10/RTM10.html#TI994_Arcade Web Archive: Retrogaming Times Monthly, March 2005, Issue #10]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wars_(video_game) WikiPediaWikipedia: Car Wars]
[[Category:1981 Software]]
