20 Facts About Rally-X

Rally-X is a maze chase arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980.

Rally-X was designed as a successor to Sega's Head On, a similar maze chase game with cars.

Rally-X received several remakes and sequels, beginning with New Rally-X in 1981, and is included in several Namco compilations.

Rally-X is a maze chase game where the player controls a blue Formula One racecar.

Rally-X was created by Namco and designed by Hirohito Ito, with hardware developed by Kouichi Tashiro.

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Rally-X was created on a version of the Pac-Man arcade system board that supports multi-directional scrolling.

When preparing to release the game overseas, Namco believed Rally-X had more foreign appeal than Pac-Man with its audiovisual presentation and challenge, which it believed American audiences would prefer to the simplicity and "cuteness" present in Pac-Man.

An often-repeated story is that out of the games presented, specifically Pac-Man, the attending industry analysists believed Rally-X was the stand-out and the one destined to be successful.

Home conversion of Rally-X was released for the Commodore VIC-20 in Japan in 1981.

Namco released a port for the MSX in 1984 that adopted the gameplay of New Rally-X, which was released in Europe by Argus Press Software under the Bug-Byte name.

Rally-X remained relatively obscure for many years until 1995, when it was included in the PlayStation compilation Namco Museum Vol.

Rally-X has been included in several Namco compilations including Namco History Vol.

In 1996, Rally-X was re-released for arcades as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol.

Rally-X is included in both Pac-Man's Arcade Party and Pac-Man's Pixel Bash .

In 2021, Rally-X saw a digital release under the Arcade Archives label for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

In 1991, Gamest listed it as being a "masterpiece" alongside New Rally-X, and believed its underwhelming critical and commercial reception was attributed to it being ahead of its time.

Rally-X identified its high difficulty and design, and that it gave an adrenaline rush to players.

Green believes Rally-X failed to catch on as it lacked Pac-Mans abstract characters and design, and was too similar to other driving games from the era.

Rally-X is credited as being one of the first games to feature continuous background music and a bonus round, predating Sega's Carnival, which was released in June 1980.

New Rally-X has been seen as an improvement over the original and has been ported to several consoles and compilations, such as mobile phones and the Xbox 360.