Rally-X (1980) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Rally-X

Rally-X is a maze & driving arcade game, that was released by Namco in 1980 and licensed to Midway Games for US manufacture and distribution in 1981. It was ported to the SG-1000 in Taiwan.

80 1 November 1980

What Rally-X is

Rally-X is a racing game developed by Namco Limited and released in 1980. It was published by Bug-Byte Software. It is available on SG-1000, Arcade, Commodore VIC-20, MSX, Sharp X1 and Sharp X68000.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rally-X is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released on October 3, 1980 in Japan, by Midway Manufacturing in North America in February 1981 and by Karateco in Europe in 1981. Players drive a blue Formula One race car through a multidirectional scrolling maze to collect yellow flags. Boulders block some paths and must be avoided. Red enemy cars pursue the player in an attempt to collide with them. Red cars can be temporarily stunned by laying down smoke screens at the cost of fuel. Rally-X is one of the first games with bonus stages and continuously playing background music.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Rally-X holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 71% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68.

What it launched against

Rally-X launched on 1 November 1980, within three weeks of Battlezone and Berzerk. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.

Released around the same time: Battlezone, Berzerk.

Cheats and codes

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