New Rally X (1981 Namco)

A maze driving game sequel to the Rally X.

the player drives a car around a maze picking up all of the yellow flags, of which there are 10, before the car's fuel runs out. The game-play has a similar feel to another Namco legend, "Pac-Man"; although in New Rally X's mazes are much larger and, with each maze having only 10 flags to collect, is more sparsely populated than Namco's pill-eating legend.


In-game opponents consist of red enemy cars that try to ram into and destroy the player's car, a problem compounded by the fact that enemy cars are faster than the player's. A smoke screen can be activated which trails behind the player's car and causes any pursuing enemies to crash. Each maze also has rock formations which, if crashed into, will result in the loss of a player car. A radar display to the right hand side of the playing area shows the positions of both the flags and the enemy vehicles.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• arcade game
• maze
• driving game
• yellow flags
• red cars
• rocks
• accidents
• crash
• namco
• 1981

[mdstetsu]

何これ？チート？つまんねー。

[xXBlazeTheHedghogXx]

How did he not kill you?

[nickantibarney]

some of this game's music weeseled it's way into home version of the origenal.

[FieraDevilWings]

@0takuMetalheadGamer - Indeed. I unlocked it myself (and Rocket Starting is hard as well) in Ridge Racer 3D (whereas Ridge Racers (PSP) was its debut in the RR series, it was replaced by the Danver Hijack (later becoming a more standard vehicle in RR7 I think and definitely a standard one under the new name HJ6000, presumably the power output of the engine was increased to warrant this change).

I would get a PSP just to get Ridge Racers 2 - playing with the Yamasa Raggio would be sweet!

[0takuMetalheadGamer]

@FieraDevilWings It's an awesome unlockable vehicle in Ridge Racer psp but getting nitro is hard (you do start with almost 2 tanks but gaining nitro with drifting takes awhile).

[GabeElevator]

first seven levels, i call "The Helping Cars" Level 8, i call "Destroyers"

[FieraDevilWings]

The irony of having enemy cars faster than you here is that in most iterations of it in spinoffs, the New Rally-X is the fastest thing available to the player once unlocked (MKAGP2 allows Pac-Man to use it as a custom kart, while in recent Ridge Racer titles it starts off with two nitrous tanks and has the highest speed in the game, even beating the original speed demon the Soldat Crinale, 13th Racing Devil!)

[sticker3d]

i love the rally x theme

[Fir3Dir3]

@themadmallard I try not to.. haha

[sergyboy1]

@Oldclassicgame why you did that