![]() It appeared on the MSX and FM-7 home computer systems, and would not be seen again until it was included in Namco Museum Vol. As a result, Rally-X didn't gain much notoriety, especially outside of Japan. The marketing experts at the show all declared that Rally-X would be more successful than either of the other two games. When Rally-X was shown at the 1980 Amusement Machine Operators of America (or A.M.O.A.), it appeared alongside titles such as Pac-Man and Defender. It was also the first game from Namco to use a horizontal monitor, and one of only three pre-M6809 Namco games whose score did not roll over at 1,000,000 - the other two were the aforementioned New Rally-X, and Bosconian. Simple in premise, difficult in practice. You play the role of a driver who must navigate through a zoomed-in view of a set of city streets, attempting to collect all ten flags in the stage while avoiding the red enemy cars and rocks. ![]() Rally-X is quite a fun game, it just does not stand out as well as some of its competition. Rally-X is a title that is more of a footnote in Namco arcade history, having been eclipsed not only by its own sequel New Rally-X (which was released in the following year), but also by another fellow 1980 Namco title, Pac-Man. ![]()
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