Candystand Road Rally

Adobe Shockwave game Candystand

Candystand Road Rally © 200? Candystand

A game inviting you to tackle 9 challenging rounds during clear day,
clear night and foggy days. Don't forget to watch out for damage and fuel.

Legs' details: length, time and weather conditions:
Leg #1 = 20 miles, clear day, suburban road leading to the city;
Leg #2 = 23 miles, clear day, desert;
Leg #3 = 25 miles, clear day, desert leading to the city, features a gas and repair station;
Leg #4 = 22 miles, clear night, desert;
Leg #5 = 25 miles, clear night, desert leading to the city, features a gas and repair station;
Leg #6 = 15 miles, foggy day, desert;
Leg #7 = 15 miles, foggy day, suburban road leading to the city;
Leg #8 = 20 miles, clear day, suburban road among mountains, features the last gas and repair station;
Leg #9 = 35 miles, clear day, suburban road leading to the city, checkered flag and trophy, features aggressive drivers.

TECHNICAL

Uses Adobe ShockWave
Players: 1
Control: mouse (steering)
Keys: 2
either [CTRL] = gas, either [SHIFT] = shift up (only when CTRL is released).

TRIVIA

CandyStand Road Rally is an advergame - LifeSavers logos are advertised on both lower corners of the screen (almost all legs). Only legs #1; #8 and #9 show one 'LifeSavers 5 flavor' ad on the lower right corner.
Other LifeSavers logos advertised in Candystand Road Rally are Pep-o-mint and Wint-o-green.
The tachometer may not be complete - even if the tachometer (x1000 rpm) shows 6 and 7 (quickly alternating), the engine hasn't reached that number.

TIPS AND TRICKS

* The fuel and damage meters aren't decorations - they work and when either you don't have much fuel or you heavily damaged the car, you need to stop at the gas stations (which also serve as repair garages). You have the opportunity to do so when the odometer reaches 50; 100 and 150.
* Watch the odometer: prepare to slow down when it strikes 49; 99 and 149. Then move the car to the right, refuel and repair the car.
* You have 3 'minutes' to complete 8 legs. The 9th (last) leg has a '5-minute' time limit as the enemies are changing lanes here and is the longest drive of all 9.
* You can easily see all the cars and the gas station on the night drives.
* Watch yourself on the foggy drives: the fog is dense and you may not see every car. But all have a yellow stripe running through the body.
* When the engine is on high revs, shift up immediately! Continuous drive on too high revs causes damage filling the meter.
* Don't drive too long on the roadsides: they damage the car.
* Heavy crashes into opponents cause the damage meter to fill quickly and stop the car to 0.
* Game over can be reached in 4 ways: destruction of the car, no fuel, time over and reaching the finish line after 200 miles.

STAFF

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Produced by Skyworks Technologies inc. for CandyStand (back then owned by Wrigley).

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