Motor City Patrol
Motor City Patrol
Motor City Patrol

Motor City Patrol

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Item Description

What would a shift on the beat look like squeezed into an 8-bit cartridge? Motor City Patrol answers with a top-down squad car, a sprawling city grid and a service record to protect. Developed by the British studio Source Research & Development and published by Matchbox in 1992, it was released for the NES only in North America, and it plays like nothing else in the console's racing aisle.

The routine is the hook. You patrol your streets, flash the siren to pull over speeders, issue tickets, set up speed traps and make routine arrests. Then the calm breaks: a crime is in progress, the helicopter patrol is already over the scene, and you check the surveillance map for the fastest route before racing in to stop the getaway car with your sidearm. As your career moves along, bigger criminals and public enemies raise the stakes and put that service record on the line.

Good police work pays off in more than pride. Strong performance earns points you can spend to upgrade your weapon, repair your cruiser or improve its capabilities, which gives each shift a light management layer on top of the driving and chasing. It is a game about balancing the small stuff, the tickets and traffic stops, against the urgent call that could make your career.

Retro players have pointed out that its open, top-down city driving foreshadows the formula Grand Theft Auto would later make famous, only played from the right side of the law. That makes Motor City Patrol an earnest, very 1992 curiosity with a surprisingly forward-looking idea at its core, and a fun discovery among the NES library's less-traveled corners.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Genre
Racing
About the game

You are one of MotorCity's finest performing your regular duties: patrolling every street, making routine arrests, issuing tickets, and setting up speed traps. Suddenly the calm is broken! There's a crime in progress and you're the first to respond. You contact the helicopter patrol who's already on the scene. Time is of the essence. Using your surveillance map, you find the best route to the scene of the crime just in time to make the collar. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it!

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