“RUN!” shouts Melvin, but you are already running, as a horde of furious aliens chases you out the door of the “Space Bar.” You bolt down the street, but they are jumping into their red spacecraft and flying after you!
“Melvin! What do we do?” you shout, still running full speed
down the streets of Phenix.
“Get to the car!” shouts Melvin.
You see your orange racecar up ahead. “How can a racecar
outrun spacecraft?” you ask, heading for it.
“It probably can’t,” pants Melvin “but Gary put a Photon
Cannon in it for the next challenge.”
“What?” you say, hopping into the car. Brushing a few
Kool-Aid packets out of the way, you buckle in, start it up, and peel out,
tires squealing, down the street, narrowly avoiding getting rammed by one of
the red spaceships. The car radio is very loud, playing a weird “BEEP BEEP BOMP
BOMP BEEP BEEP BOMP BOMP” sound.
You desperately fiddle with the radio knob, but the
aggravating “BEEP BEEP BOMP BOMP” continues. “Melvin, what is that sound?” you
shout.
“I don’t know!” he shouts back. “I think the aliens are
jamming the frequencies. I think it might be their way of saying ‘Calling all
cars.’”
You decide to change the subject. “And why is there a Photon
Cannon in our racecar?” you shout at the top of your lungs, while you take a
sharp right turn.
Melvin shouts back, “Gary was going to have you do a rematch
against Crashin’ Clyde, as a shootout. We didn’t want to tell you because your
last race against him was so… traumatic.”
Two red spaceships are on your tail and gaining fast, and
another is barreling head-on toward you. “And this isn’t?” you shout. “Get in
that loading chamber already!” Melvin hops in, and you fire him at the last
possible moment at the Mortii ship in front of you, and barely survive as its
wreckage flies every which way.
“And I thought bartending would be easy!” you think to
yourself as you speed down the street.
Place the Universal
Chaos cartridge into your Atari 2600. Set both difficulty switches to b. Play
until you get 50,000 points. Post a link to a video in the comments section of
yourself completing the challenge.