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![[Loading screen]](/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/h/gif/HighwayEncounter.gif "Loading screen")
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![[In-game screen]](/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/h/HighwayEncounter.gif "In-game screen")
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| Full title | Highway Encounter |
| Year of release | 1985 |
| Publisher | Vortex Software (UK) |
| Re-released by | ABC Soft (Spain) |
| Author(s) | Costa Panayi |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Kempston, Interface 2, Cursor and Keyboard |
| Type | Arcade: Shoot-em-up |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £7.95 1900 ptas. |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | Multiple schemes (see individual downloads) |
| Additional info | Appeared on tape 2, side A of the compilation 10 Great Games (Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd)
Appeared on tape 1, side B of the compilation Best of 3D, The (Vortex Software) Appeared on tape 2, side B of the compilation Pack Monstruo (Dinamic Software) Appeared on side B of the compilation Star Games II (Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd) Appeared on side A of covertape SU issue 112: Twelve Pack 1 (Sinclair User) Features Isometric 3D Graphics Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase |
| SPOT comments | Sinclair User cover game |
| Series | This game belongs in the following series:
1. Highway Encounter 2. Alien Highway |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and MSX |
| Score |
8.31 (217 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | Encoding scheme | ||
 | HighwayEncounter.tzx.zip | 22,245 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 50986187 | SpeedLock 1 | |||
|  | HighwayEncounter.tap.zip | 30,936 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | HighwayEncounter.gif | 4,610 | (Loading screen) |
| HighwayEncounter.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| HighwayEncounter.gif | 6,828 | (In-game screen) | |
 | HighwayEncounter.txt | 1,842 | (English instructions) |
| HighwayEncounter.jpg | 1,137,774 | (Game map) |
| HighwayEncounter_2.png | 105,763 | (Game map) |
| HighwayEncounter.jpg | 74,150 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| HighwayEncounter.jpg | 132,277 | (Advertisement) | |
| HighwayEncounter_Coupon-Side1.jpg | 207,687 | (Coupon) | |
| HighwayEncounter_Coupon-Side2.jpg | 139,303 | (Coupon) |
| The Tipshop has hints, cheats and/or POKEs for this game! |
| Title | Author | Year | Platform | Status |
| Vorton | Highway Devs (Chui, Race8086, Yota, Mortimor, Nacho, Etece, Xenon, DJ Syto) | 2004 | PC/Windows, Linux, Dreamcast | in progress |
| Highway Encounter | Urban Interactive Software | 2006 | PC/Windows | available |
| Highway Encounter - The Remake | Bankie | 2006 | PC/Windows | available |
| 4 player reviews [ View | Write one ] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Crash | 7.85 | page 9 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 7.85 | page 444 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 8.85 | page 312 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 8.85 | page 36 | (Feature) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 8.85 | page 16 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 9.85 | page 72 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 9.85 | page 122 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 9.85 | page 26 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 9.85 | page 31 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 10.85 | page 127 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 10.85 | page 15 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Spectrum | 10.85 | page 32 | (Feature - Road Runner) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.85 | page 17 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Spectrum | 11.85 | page 72 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 12.85 | page 58 | (Solution) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 12.85 | page 58 | (Map) | [full page] |
| ACE | 1.88 | page 139 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 3.88 | page 104 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 4.88 | page 113 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.88 | page 83 | (Feature - Run It Again: 3D isometric games) | [full page] |
| ACE | 5.88 | page 105 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 6.88 | page 82 | (Feature - The Third Dimension - Isometric 3D Games) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.91 | page 6 | (CoverGame) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 11.85 | page 14 | (Nuevo) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby Especial | 11.85 | page 17 | (Supercincuenta) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Computer Gamer | 7.85 | page 47 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 7.85 | page 13 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 7.85 | page 53 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 7.85 | page 4 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 7.85 | page 46 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 7.85 | page 16 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 8.85 | page 35 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 8.85 | page 15 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 8.85 | page 49 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 8.85 | page 4 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 8.85 | page 63 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 8.85 | page 36 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Spectrum | 8.85 | page 4 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 9.85 | page 120 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 9.85 | page 4 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 9.85 | page 90 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Spectrum | 9.85 | page 4 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 11.85 | page 132 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.85 | page 35 | (Advert) | [full page] |
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