Motor City Patrol is a police simulation game developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Players take on the role of a police officer tasked with patrolling the streets of Motor City. The game involves routine duties such as issuing tickets and making arrests, but it escalates as players respond to unfolding crimes, coordinating with helicopter support and navigating city streets to apprehend suspects in a race against time.
You are one of MotorCity's finest performing your regular duties: patrolling every street, making routine arrests, issuing tickets, and setting up speed traps. Suddenly the calm is broken! There's a crime in progress and you're the first to respond. You contact the helicopter patrol who's already on the scene. Time is of the essence. Using your surveillance map, you find the best route to the scene of the crime just in time to make the collar. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it!