
The Shell Road Safety Game
Written by David Magalhães
Language: Pascalated BASIC
(c) 2024 by Starsoft

This videogame is based on a board game distributed during Christmas 1954 in Portugal, inside a comic book.

In the 1950s, the number of vehicles on the road began to become noticeable.
And road safety became an important issue - especially for children who, at the time, walked to school.
That's why board games like this began to appear in many countries to familiarize children with traffic rules.
This game reflects the society of the time. For example, square 24 and square 74 show common situations at the time: many people - especially young people - got on and off buses and trams while they were moving.

The game is not very appealing to modern children today. But grandparents can still spend some quality time with their grandchildren.

The game should be played with real dice and not with the computer's random number generator. That way, we can have the illusion that we can control our luck! For better gameplay, it is better to play with only 1 die and not with 2 dice.

The game can be played with or without images. If it is played with images, the computer will load the images from TAP. Therefore, the game should be played on an emulator with the fast LOAD option on and with auto rewind enabled.

If the images are loading too slowly, try playing at the following link:
https://arcalusitana.org/MuseuZX/index.html?section=games82&program=Road%20Safety%20(Boriel)%20(2024)%20%5bStarsoft%5d.tap

Tools used:
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Visual Studio Code (text editor)
ZX BASIC (Boriel) (compiler)
BASinC (tape editor)
PSP6 (image processor)
BMP2SCR (png to tape)
