Lost In Translation/New Rally-X

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New Rally-X
Manufacturer	Namco
Released	1981
Control Method	4-way Joystick 1 Button(s)
Main CPU	Z80 (@ 3.072 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono Namco (@ 96.000 kHz) Discrete
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 288 x 224 pixels 60.61 Hz 32 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	12 ROMs 21,600 bytes (21.09 KiB)
MAME ID	nrallyx

About The Game

New Rally-X is an arcade video game where 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.

New Rally X is an update of the 1980 release, "Rally-X". The sequel has slightly different graphics to the original game, and has more forgiving gameplay.

Trivia

Released in February 1981.

While the original "Rally-X" released under a Bally Midway license was a moderate hit in the United States, Bally Midway only distributed this updated version as an upgrade kit for Rally-X cabinets. The game appeared quite frequently in mainland Europe and the United Kingdom, mainly in the form of uncredited bootlegs. It was at least as popular as Rally-X in these regions, if not more so, primarily due to the game's greater playability and abundance of bootleg board stock.

Scoring

• Collecting a flag : 100 points x the flag collected up to a maximum of 1,000 points.
• Special Flag : Doubles points for all flags collected. If collected first, the last flag is worth 2,000 points.
• Lucky Flag : Bonus points x Remaining Fuel.
• End of screen bonus : Points for remaining fuel.

Tips and tricks

Easter Egg

1. Enter service mode.
2. Keep B1 pressed and enter the following sequence : Up(x2), Down(x7), Right, Left(x6).
3. '(c) NAMCO LTD. 1980' will be added at the bottom of the screen.

Series

1. Rally-X (1980)
2. New Rally-X (1981)

Staff

Music By

Nobuyuki Ohnogi

Cabinet and Artwork

• 

  New Rally-X flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Sony PlayStation (1995, "Namco Museum Vol.1")

Sony PSP (2005, "Ridge Racers")

Sony PSP (2005, "Namco Museum Battle Collection")

Computers

PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (1997, Namco History Vol.2")

Others

Arcade (1996, "Namco Classics Collection Vol.2")

Ms. Pac-Man TV Game Wireless Version (2005 - Jakk's Pacific)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Video Game Music	YLR-20003	1984-04-25	Alfa	Vinyl version.
The Best of Video Game Music	32XA-66	1986-04-25	Alfa	CD version.
Video Game Music	YLC-20003	1984-04-25	Alfa	Cassette version.
Video Game Music	SCDC-00003	2001-03-23	Scitron Digital Content, Inc.	CD version.
765 MEGA-MIX	APCG-4014	1991-07-21	APOLLON	CD version.
NAMCO Classic Collection Techno Maniax	PCCG-00440	1998-02-18	Pony Canyon, Inc.	CD version.
Namco Best Hit Parade!	VDRY-25023	1989-11-21	Victor Entertainment Inc.	CD version.
Namco Best Hit Parade!	VICL-5038	1990-11-07	Victor Entertainment Inc.	CD version.
Famison 8BIT - iDOLM@STER 04 Makoto Kikuchi / Yukiho Hagiwara	FVCG-1014	2008-05-28	5bp. Records	CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.