Right-angle turns were epic in the 80s!
Remember Automan? That short-lived ABC sci-fi superhero show where a police computer geek brings a perfect holographic crime-fighter to life.
Automan looked straight out of a Tron grid—glowing blue lines, god-like powers, and his Autocar? It didn’t turn corners... it snapped to them at exact right angles, like it was strafing in an arcade game.
I remember an episode where cops (I think they were cops) were chasing Automan and Walter did a right-angle turn. They were like, “I can make it, I can make it,” only to crash... I thought this show was so awesome.
Walter would get crushed against the door in every chase scene. Pure gold.
The effects were expensive as hell, the show only lasted 12–13 episodes, but man... it was unapologetically 80s. Cursor was the real MVP.
Anyone else try to imitate those turns on their bike as a kid—devastating results, LOL!?
Did you know there was an Automan Commodore 64 game too?
Released by Bugbyte in 1985, it’s about an evil Automan clone created by an underworld crime organisation using the same program as Automan. It won’t be for doing good, though. Automan has to find objects and evidence to track his clone down and destroy him. Did you play it?