Highway Encounter

Highway Encounter is a strategy/action game played from a 3D isometric perspective in which you must successfully chaperone a bomb along a long, straight stretch of highway and into the alien base at the end of it. There are thirty screens to pass through and most are filled with hazards that threaten to block your progress (such as barrels) or destroy you (aliens and explosive mines).

Released: 1985
Platforms: Amstrad CPC Commodore 64 Commodore C64/128/MAX MSX Tatung Einstein ZX Spectrum
Genres: Action Strategy Tactical
Developers: Costa Panayi
Publishers: Vortex Software
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Science fiction
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

About

Highway Encounter is a video game published for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, Sharp MZ, and Tatung Einstein by Vortex Software in 1985. It was written by Costa Panayi who also coded Android, Android Two, TLL, Cyclone, and Revolution.

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

The Spectrum version of the game was voted number 40 in the Your Sinclair Official Top 100 Games of All Time.

Legacy

There is an unfinished and officially unreleased, but available to download version for Atari ST made by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson and graphics by Costa Panayi, from 1990. Versions for Amiga and Sega Mega Drive were also planned but Hutchinson stated that the Mega Drive version was left unpublished.

Highway Encounter was followed by a sequel, Alien Highway, in 1986.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Amstrad CPC	31 December 1985	Europe
MSX	31 December 1985	Europe
ZX Spectrum	31 December 1985	Europe
Commodore C64/128/MAX	31 December 1986	Europe
Tatung Einstein	31 December 1986	Europe