Dodge Racer

Dodge Racer
Cover art by Tim Boxell
Developer(s)Synapse Software
Publisher(s)Synapse Software
Designer(s)Rob Re
Platform(s)Atari 8-bit
Release1981
Genre(s)Maze
Mode(s)1-4 players alternating turns
2 player competitive

Dodge Racer (also shown in the manual as Dodge-Racer and DodgeRacer) is a maze video game programmed by Rob Re for Atari 8-bit computers and published by Synapse Software in 1981. It is a clone of the 1979 arcade video game Head On, where the player drives around a rectangular track, divided into lanes, collecting dots and avoiding collisions. Dodge Racer was the second release from Synapse and the company's first game.