---
title: "Wasteland Racer"
subtitle: "A homage to 80's ZX Spectrum game \"Tranz Am\"."
date: 2025-04-03T00:00:00.000Z
category: game
url: https://phaser.io/news/2025/04/wasteland-racer
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Wasteland Racer

*A homage to 80's ZX Spectrum game "Tranz Am".*

It's 2047 and after a succession of Uni Party Governments, everything's gone badly downhill. The UK became the only country to blindly carry on with net zero, even when the rest of the world realised the climate was changing regardless of human input.

You need to collect fuel, your car is an off road buggy.  It runs a multi-fuel V6 turbo engine, it's a good job it's multifuel because it means you can run on petrol, ethanol, kerosene and even paraffin.  You'll find these these all represented as a fuel icon, so as not to cause confusion.

Oh and make sure you watch the temperature of your engine,  the ambient air temperatures are now much higher now there are no plants. if it gets too hot it will blow up and you lose a life!  Hint - if you stop the engine it will quickly cool

You've got three spare cars lined up for the quest - good luck !

[Play Wasteland Racer](https://balancemotorsport.co.uk/wasteland-racer)

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