Basically, Enduro is a Pole Position competitor that gives you something extra. It's a multi-day Formula 1 racer that gives you limited time to make it through an entire day/night cycle of driving. If you can make it the required distance by the next day, you get to continue racing another day, making yet another one of those "high score" titles with no actual end. A day night cycle consists of a sunny morning, a snowy mid-day, a sunny afternoon, a nice looking twilight, a dark early night where only other driver's taillights are visible, thehn a foggy midnight/early morning, up into a dawn, which is when the mad dash to make your quota of miles per day really happens. And if you make it, the odometer becomes flags, and the day/night cycle repeats.

I wanted the full early 80's experience - so I did the one thing, I'd just bought a CD copy of Loverboy's first album (1980, Columbia) and put that in, and basically raced the entire album. Somewhere there's old VHS tapes that have me sitting up on a school night playing this with Loverboy playing. Here I am, half-past midnight IRL, at midnight, cruising down the highway at break-neck speed in the fog, listening to "Always on my Mind", trying to get that bloody Trumpet chick off my mind.

So naturally, after finding i quite enjoyed this one, I wanted the actual cartridge, and well - here it is after years of very passive searching. Now Loverboy has to be on the Turntable, I've got a real Atari playing it, and I'm married so no love-issues there - just me, my vinyl, a couple cats trying to catch my opponents, and some Paul Dean guitar solos for punctuation.