ok, now Im confused, I used to play this car game called road runner, is a vertical scroller. The objective of the game is just to get to the goal, but you have limited gas, and you can pick up special cars that give you a little more, at the same time the road is filled with blue and red cars which will try to make you crash if you pass near them... and also if you do really well a blue superman will pass flying at the left of the screen! I didnt make the connection with the road runner character until now, and I suppose that the game I played wasn't really called road runner anyway, or is a wierd version, I don't know anymore...
Oh and I also played an old PC game of Nightmare on elm street that is far better than this NES version, I can't recall its name though, but I remember the first part was about running in the town to try to find the house while being chased by ghosts. The game had a top-down view.