# Trying to remember a late 80s PC video game...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-late-80s-pc-video-game/695882>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 19, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-late-80s-pc-video-game/695882 "2014-08-19T07:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-late-80s-pc-video-game/695882/1 "2014-08-19T07:07:20Z")

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My friend asked me what this game was, but I don’t remember it at all:

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> Do you remember that video game that you owned that we played on the computer and it was a little cop car that drove around town and then the cop would get out and walk around the station?

This would have been 1988-1990, though the game might have been out a few years by then. (Probably came out 1986-1989.) Thanks for your help!

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-late-80s-pc-video-game/695882/2 "2014-08-19T07:24:06Z")

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PoliceQuest?

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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-late-80s-pc-video-game/695882/3 "2014-08-19T09:01:48Z")

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I think you got it, thank you!