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Why? I have been asked many times over many years, why Car Wars? It's not the funnest game in the world. It's one of the few racing games where a car traveling at 120 mph can take up to three minutes to move ten inches. You also need to constantly hold your breath, not in suspense, but to keep from accidentally blowing the little cardboard chits about. Frankly it was out-classed by the electronic games of its age - Spy Hunter, Demolition Derby, Road Blasters.... Likewise it can't even hold a candle to the arcade action of today - Interstate '76, Carmageddon, Twisted Metal, Grand Theft Auto, etc.... So. Why bother? Aside from an interesting back story as well as an excuse to get out from behind the computer and do something fun with your friends, Car Wars has one element the rest of the world of vehicular combat games simply does not: the challenge of design. Designing vehicles is a game in itself. When you build a car in Car Wars, you're not simply dropping explosives and armor on a hot rod. You are balancing weight, space and price to find the best possible combination for the threats you expect to encounter. This is life in a nutshell. It is simultaneously building a puzzle and solving it while in motion. It is satiating the mad howling primal nerd with sweet bouts number crunching pseudo-techie joy. There are so many options in the Car Wars design system that what ultimately results truly feels like a creation of ones own. Adam pulled a rib from his chest to create Eve, the girl of his dreams. We pull a bunch of books, a calculator and a couple of hours together and create the car of our dreams. The details change but the game remains the same. Unfortunately, in the past, these dream machines never went far beyond the paper they were scribbled out on. Then came Gear Jammers. The great thing about this site is that ones designs no longer need to do little more than collect dust in the back of a desk drawer. Through the site you can share your concoctions with the entire gaming world. You may even receive some feedback in the process. And it's not just vehicles you can share but also equipment, armaments, tires and more - a feat unprecedented in the world of PPD role playing games. So Car Wars? It's more than just gears, guns and girls. It's design. It's calling the shots and then betting on their integrity. Gear Jammers is a site for design nuts and we hope that we have done a good enough job to make it your nutcracker of choice. Drive Offensively, Earl G. Harding.
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