Getaway

Getaway or Get Away may refer to:

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Getaway! (video game)

Getaway! is a crime-themed scrolling maze game for the Atari 8-bit family designed by Mark Reid and published by the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1982. The game won the 1983 $25,000 Atari Star Award for best APX submission, an award previously won by My First Alphabet and Typo Attack. Prior to Getaway!, Reid developed a skiing game, Downhill, also published by APX.

According to Reid, Atari was impressed with Getaway! and had "big plans" for the game, but the North American video game crash of 1983 occurred before this could happen.

A non-digital illustration of Getaway! was featured on the cover of the Fall 1983 APX catalog.

Gameplay

Getaway! takes place on scrolling map of a town, 35 screens in size. You leave your hideout and drive around the maze using up gasoline in the process. Pausing at a gas station refills the tank.

Also in the maze are dollar signs (which give a little money when collected), armored vans (which give a lot of money and immediately alert the police to your presence), and three loot items. To complete a level you must collect all three loot items, then the armored van, and then return to your hideout.

Getaway (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Getaway" was a hit song for R&B/funk band Earth, Wind & Fire in 1976 and written by Beloyd Taylor and Peter Cor Belenky and first produced on BELOYD by Melvin Ware who then made the deal to split publishing with EWF. Released from their Spirit album, it spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Along with the track, "Saturday Nite", "Getaway" peaked at number twelve on the disco charts. It has been covered by Lee Ritenour and His Gentle Thoughts.

Reception

"Getaway" sold over a million copies and has been certified gold as up until the RIAA lowered the sales levels for certified singles in 1989, a gold single equaled 1 million units sold.

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