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===Back of Retail Packaging=== | ===Back of Retail Packaging=== | ||
Race your ambulance through the city to save ailing citizens. Avoid cars and approaching trains while making use of your emergency shelters. Score points for safe patient deliveries. Faster deliveries get more points! | Race your ambulance through the city to save ailing citizens. Avoid cars and approaching trains while making use of your emergency shelters. Score points for safe patient deliveries. Faster deliveries get more points! | ||
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| + | ==Trivia== | ||
| + | In 1983 there were at least 3 companies interested in purchasing [[Funware]] including Activision, Epyx, and Creative Software. [[Funware was eventually sold to Creative Software. However, both Epyx and Activision would later give a go at marketing TI-99/4A games near the end of 1983. | ||
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| + | Accourding to Michaeil Brouthers, it only cost [[Funware]] about $4.00 (USD) to make each cartridge game. | ||
==Downloads== | ==Downloads== | ||
Revision as of 21:40, 26 April 2020
| Ambulance | |
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 Ambulance Retail Box (Front) | |
| Publisher(s) | Funware |
| Original Retail Price | $39.95 (USD)[1] |
| Programmer(s) | Kent Stevenson |
| Part# | FW 1005 |
| Format(s) | Solid State SoftwareTM Command Module |
| Release | 1983 (2nd Quarter) [2] |
| Genre(s) | Action |
Ambulance is a Funware game created for the TI-99/4A during the second quarter of 1983. It was programmed by Kent Stevenson. It was released on Solid State SoftwareTM Command Module. It originally retailed for $39.95 (USD).
Contents
Gameplay
In Ambulance, the player attempts to pick up patients and deliver them to the hospital. The player has to compete against the clock, delivering patients in the required amount of time, and also must avoid obstacles that vary from level to level. When a house begins to flash, it indicates to the player that a patient needs to be picked up. The player begins with three ambulances. The game ends when all of the ambulances are crashed or if five patients are lost.
Advertising Blurb
Back of Retail Packaging
Race your ambulance through the city to save ailing citizens. Avoid cars and approaching trains while making use of your emergency shelters. Score points for safe patient deliveries. Faster deliveries get more points!
Trivia
In 1983 there were at least 3 companies interested in purchasing Funware including Activision, Epyx, and Creative Software. [[Funware was eventually sold to Creative Software. However, both Epyx and Activision would later give a go at marketing TI-99/4A games near the end of 1983.
Accourding to Michaeil Brouthers, it only cost Funware about $4.00 (USD) to make each cartridge game.
Downloads
Ambulance Cartridge
Ambulance Retail Box (Front)
Ambulance Retail Box (Back)
Ambulance Warranty Registration Card (Front)
Ambulance Warranty Registration Card (Back)
Ambulance Manual Complete (pdf format)
Alpiner MAME/MESS Rom (rpk format)
