GeeBee Air Rally
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Gee Bee Air Rally adds another dimension to motor racing - literally, as the action takes place in the sky. It targets the feel of pioneering races between 250mph planes in the valleys of the southern USA between brave but honest goggle-wearing men - a sort of Mille Miglia in the sky.

The game consists of 16 courses, which are marked out by giant suspended cones, each of which is to be completed against a time limit, while avoiding contact with the other planes. You must stay within the cones, any time spent outside it results in the alloted time ticking down at a prohibitively fast rate (so don't think of short-cutting the track). After every second successful race, you take on a bonus track, in which balloons must be hit for points.

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Description from the packaging:

Airspeed mania.
GeeBee Air Rally- joystick-gripping, pylon-shaving racing action.
Speed in spades. Trick turns. A swarm of other planes to out fly and outmaneuver- or collide with.
All in three dimensions. Because in GeeBee Air Rally, you race not just next to or around the competition, but over and under them as well.
With 16 unique and challenging courses, including four special slalom and balloon-popping events, 256 levels of difficulty, so the challenge never ends. And authentic sights, sounds and music that recall the days when speed kings were the heroes of the skies.
GeeBee Air Rally. Strap yourself in, grab your joystick and open the throttle. You're in for a whale of a ride.

16 Great race courses, each with vivid, fast-scrolling graphics.
Bail out from a midair mishap, and you never know where you'll end up.
Perched atop an enormous engine and a firebomb of a fuel tank, the GeeBee's cockpit is not always a safe place to be.

The plane's short wingspan means you can cut corners tight... very tight.
Famed speed demon Johnny Daring raced a GeeBee to a new speed record and the coveted Cartwright Cup in 1932. Asked how he flew the ornery and dangerous plane, Daring replied: "Very cautiously."
Do the puny rudder and stubby flaps look equal to the task of maneuvering this lightning-fast craft?
In the 1930's, a decade of airspeed mania, the pilots who dared to race in the sky gripped the imagination of America.

Created by Steve Cartwright, Gene Smith, Mike Nowak, and Russell Lieblich.
