Rally-X is basically Pac-Man if it was designed like a driving game. It has very similar music, it was made in the same year and the general objective is virtually identical (Clear levels by collecting all instances of a particular item in a maze-like setting while avoiding enemies that are chasing you at every turn). #ChangeMyMind I'm surprised this game never got a NES/Famicom port. I love the score tally sound in the Sharp X68000 version; it sounds very pleasant.
"We are not covering New Rally-X in this video." Sharp X1, MSX, and Sharp X6800 versions, despite being called just "Rally-X", are actually ports of the New Rally-X
@@AirshBornely // Yep. Despite them having the same title, they're actually just ports of New Rally X, making the "We are not covering New Rally X in this video" statement slightly misleading.
Oddly enough, there was a blatant Rally-X clone on both the Vic-20 and the Commodore 64: Radar Rat Race. The gameplay of both games is ABSOLUTELY identical. I mean... all you'd have to do to hack Rally-X into Radar Rat Race would be to: Change the racecars into rats Change the rocks into cats Change the smoke screens into star screens Change the flags into cheese Change the BANG into EEEK Change the fuel gauge into a time gauge
@@jeffzebert4982 Late to this, but... that is quite literally what was done to create Radar Rat Race, as it was built from Rally-X to skirt copyright issues since Commodore only had a license to sell the game in Japan
"Farting in the streets" (reference to The Who - Won't get fooled again in misheard lyrics) Rally-X was appeared once in Ridge Racer series alongside with other NAMCO IPs (such as Tekken, Mappy, Pac-Man, Ace Combat, Time Crisis, SoulCalibur and more) as a advertising on the track.
The MSX and X68K versions are actually ports of New Rally-X. Notice the music and the presence of L flags. I’m sure the bonus stages are there too. Also, the VIC-20 port is one of the earliest games from HAL Laboratory.
Exactly. A lot of people doesn't even know that many early VIC-20 and also C64 cartridge games were developed by HAL Labs in Japan, mostly because they were credited to Commodore that published them. Also the VIC-20 was mostly designed by Commodore of Japan, and was also a huge success there unlike the C64 and Amiga that totally flopped.
I played this game a lot on my MSX when I was a kid! I love to see how it's able to have smooth scrolling even on MSX1! That is an achievement! I didn't know the Wii Version, it's time to revisit it! =)
This is another game that was ported to the MSX but not the Famicom. Like Bosconian, it has scrolling in four directions. Was that beyond the capabilities of early NES carts?
Watching this video made me realize that the first game I ever played was a knock-off/clone of Rally-X. It was called Auto Chase, and it was played on the VTech CreatiVision (or, if you're Australian like me, the Dick Smith Wizzard).
Yes, my friend you are right, but don´t forget some Japanese companies like namco or especially konami squeeze the msx to its limits. Sorry for my english jeje, I m spanish but i think Pedro Campelo doesn´t sound english neither.jeje
@@amerigocosta7452 There's something about it's grapichs modes no? You sacrifice some soothness to have more sprites on screen. This is the example of Gradius series.
@@TheTenthArt eventho I owned an MSX-1 I don't really know what the real issue is. My understanding is that the graphics memory is separated from the general memory and can only be processed in chunks. But then again it's possible to make smoother scrolling routines in software at the expenses of graphics detail. So you have River Raid on the MSX running very smoothly while Star Force is like 8 pixels at once.
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My favorite version is not here. I can't for the life of me figure out why none of these are the version I grew up with, but it was a Namco Plug'n Play. It was based off the Arcade version with speed up version of the song you hear in Sharp X1.
@@FuzzFeathers no he means either the jakks pacific TV games or the Pac-Man 35th anniversary plug n play with contains the New Rally X, which contains the sped up music of the Sharp X1
The PSP Ridge Racers had Rally-X (on the original) and New Rally-X (on the sequel, not released in North America?) as a side game - both unlocking a bonus Rally-X themed car in the respective Ridge Racer main mode, once a certain score has been smashed in the Rally-X mode. A bonus retro Namco game seems to a running theme in the Ridge Racer series.
There is a clone of this on the Commodore 64 called Radar Rat Race that featured a mouse and rats for cars, cheese for flags, and cats for rocks. Rally-X: ⛳️🚙🚗🚗🚗🪨 Radar Rat Race: 🧀🐁🐀🐀🐀🐱
Did you mix up versions of *_Rally X_* and *_New Rally X_* or the *Sharp* versions use the music from *_New Rally X_* into *_Rally X_* ones? I'm a bit confused here, since they are different games, with latter the music is much better and elaborated. Anyway, interesting video. Didn't know there was a *Windows* version, and that Wii one looks very cool!
Well they were given the name Rally X, not New Rally X. Plus their rule sets don't fall into either (the slight map layout changes, or the number of cars on the first stage)
@@Wflash00 // Late reply but yeah, those are two slightly similar games, thus making the "We aren't showcasing New Rally X" statement slightly misleading, as some of the ports are basically ports of the 1981 revision, "New Rally-X".
Buen video my friend. I Don´t know if writte you in spanish or english jeje.my girlfriend is english and i am spanish so, Mejor hablo español jeje. No se si sabias de una version en Zx spectrum realizada creo en 2018, de la escena Homebrew, Tom Dalby es el autor. Es una muy buena conversion, pero no sabria decirte ahora mismo si es de éste o del New Rally-X, o de una mezcla de ambos. Anyway, you should to check it, i think it´s amazing for Zx. Gracias por estos video otra vez, un saludo amigo.
@@TheTenthArt I didn,t know that bimbo and i check it right now and for 1983 and only 16k is not a bad version neither. Every days you learn something. Thank Mate.
I also have the Jakks Pacific version except that the sounds are different most notably the background music. I wonder if it is that the version with the NTSC version is different from the one I have which is presumably PAL.
I had Radar Rat Race on the VIC-20 so when I first saw Rally-X I thought that it was a knock-off of that. Is that music in most versions the same that's in Pac-Mania? Or are they both just ripping off Jim Dandy?
@@ilikeminecraft1232 well I went on the internet before, looked at videos in the past on sharp mz 700 and ding ding ding I found one thats really licensed by hal and namco
In South America I played the Arcade one but it had the music from the Sharp/MSX version but better made. I loved that song as a kid. Anyone know where I can find the Arcade music of that song?
@@TheTenthArt for the time. For a 1980’s computer system, it was definitely ahead of its time. It was right up there with the Atari ST & the Commodore Amiga.
There is one arcade version from the 80s where Stages 1-3 the background color is green, stages 4-7 red-maroon, 8-11 ??? and 12-15 grey-ish day-sky blue. Has someone else seen it?
Maybe I can tell you about the ports of new rally-x. Arcade Original Fujitsu Micro 7 / FM-7 Sharp MZ-1500 Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 Arcade Playstation 1 and a non emulated port on ridge racer.
This game is good for the VIC-20 and MSX, or Gameboy but on the Playstation? With this coding skill and energy, they could have written a better game. Car chase with action in a city. The best version is Arcade Arrangement because of advanced graphics and excellent music.
![1981 [60fps] New Rally X 157540pts](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jeQHure4f-w/mqdefault.jpg)
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The arranged arcade’s music is one of the most relaxing songs I ever heard.
Does sound nice. 😁
OMG YES!
Hasta el"¡Paff!" infartante del choque
Rally-X is basically Pac-Man if it was designed like a driving game. It has very similar music, it was made in the same year and the general objective is virtually identical (Clear levels by collecting all instances of a particular item in a maze-like setting while avoiding enemies that are chasing you at every turn).
#ChangeMyMind
I'm surprised this game never got a NES/Famicom port. I love the score tally sound in the Sharp X68000 version; it sounds very pleasant.
Both Rally-X and Pac-Man were created by the same company (Namco).
Both games were even built on the the same hardware.
I've always liked this game even though it can be difficult to control and frustrating at times.
"We are not covering New Rally-X in this video."
Sharp X1, MSX, and Sharp X6800 versions, despite being called just "Rally-X", are actually ports of the New Rally-X
Is that why some of them have different songs playing? I hate how inconsistent it is.
@@AirshBornely // Yep. Despite them having the same title, they're actually just ports of New Rally X, making the "We are not covering New Rally X in this video" statement slightly misleading.
@@asaelpolanco8151 Tbf, that's more the fault of the studios that made those ports for not naming them appropriately.
I'm 39 years old and I love this game after... 34 years
Surprisingly enough this game translates pretty well to text-only computers, the VIC-20 version especially
Oddly enough, there was a blatant Rally-X clone on both the Vic-20 and the Commodore 64: Radar Rat Race. The gameplay of both games is ABSOLUTELY identical. I mean... all you'd have to do to hack Rally-X into Radar Rat Race would be to:
Change the racecars into rats
Change the rocks into cats
Change the smoke screens into star screens
Change the flags into cheese
Change the BANG into EEEK
Change the fuel gauge into a time gauge
@@jeffzebert4982 I remember seeing 8 Bit Guy talk about that one in his Penultimate cartridge video lol (I think that was the one)
@@jeffzebert4982 And change the change the aweful "Three Blind Mice" song out for the Rally X songs...
@@jeffzebert4982 Late to this, but... that is quite literally what was done to create Radar Rat Race, as it was built from Rally-X to skirt copyright issues since Commodore only had a license to sell the game in Japan
"Farting in the streets" (reference to The Who - Won't get fooled again in misheard lyrics)
Rally-X was appeared once in Ridge Racer series alongside with other NAMCO IPs (such as Tekken, Mappy, Pac-Man, Ace Combat, Time Crisis, SoulCalibur and more) as a advertising on the track.
The MSX and X68K versions are actually ports of New Rally-X. Notice the music and the presence of L flags. I’m sure the bonus stages are there too.
Also, the VIC-20 port is one of the earliest games from HAL Laboratory.
Exactly. A lot of people doesn't even know that many early VIC-20 and also C64 cartridge games were developed by HAL Labs in Japan, mostly because they were credited to Commodore that published them. Also the VIC-20 was mostly designed by Commodore of Japan, and was also a huge success there unlike the C64 and Amiga that totally flopped.
Is it just me or does the X68k music hit a bum note?
I played this game a lot on my MSX when I was a kid! I love to see how it's able to have smooth scrolling even on MSX1! That is an achievement!
I didn't know the Wii Version, it's time to revisit it! =)
IDK why some retro consoles/computers picked the wrong music? the track was suppose to be in "New Rally X" not "Rally X"!
0:01 / 0:14: Game Start #1
0:56: Stage Clear #1
1:10: Game Start #2
2:02: Stage Clear #2
3:21: Stage Clear #3
4:39: Stage Clear #4
4:50: Game Start #3
6:09: Stage Clear #5
8:40: Stage Start
9:13: Life Lost (Red Car)
9:41: Stage Clear #6
13:09: Another Stage Start
13:50: Stage Clear #7
14:00: Game Over
Thanks for making this video for me!!
I like New Rally-X, I really do, but I prefer the original 1980 version more, despite it being more difficult.
I agree with you
Good job posting these videos keep up the good work
Namco should've ported this game to the Famicom/NES back in the mid 80's...
@usertheloset Still, Namco should've done that back then...
Or they could port it on SEGA 8 bit consoles or a handheld!
This is another game that was ported to the MSX but not the Famicom.
Like Bosconian, it has scrolling in four directions. Was that beyond the capabilities of early NES carts?
Watching this video made me realize that the first game I ever played was a knock-off/clone of Rally-X. It was called Auto Chase, and it was played on the VTech CreatiVision (or, if you're Australian like me, the Dick Smith Wizzard).
It seems that in South Korea, this game was known as "Farting Car", and I guess you guys can see why.
Bona feina, Santiagou!
In some regions of Brazil occurs the same... :-)
@@KlingerNevesOficial Please don’t make me go to brazil
Farting car hahahaha!
@@tanzimi5518 por qual motivo?
Interesting how the msx version has a smooth scrolling. Usually games suffer from a poor scrolling.
Except super mario bros
Yes, my friend you are right, but don´t forget some Japanese companies like namco or especially konami squeeze the msx to its limits. Sorry for my english jeje, I m spanish but i think Pedro Campelo doesn´t sound english neither.jeje
The MSX could do decent scrolling if graphics were kept fairly simple, and that's the case here. There are other cases like Pippols.
@@amerigocosta7452 There's something about it's grapichs modes no? You sacrifice some soothness to have more sprites on screen. This is the example of Gradius series.
@@TheTenthArt eventho I owned an MSX-1 I don't really know what the real issue is. My understanding is that the graphics memory is separated from the general memory and can only be processed in chunks. But then again it's possible to make smoother scrolling routines in software at the expenses of graphics detail. So you have River Raid on the MSX running very smoothly while Star Force is like 8 pixels at once.
Back then I always thought that the exhaust was popcorn
Good to see that my struggles with the Wii remake wasn't me sucking and was actually the controls.
Lol
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My favorite version is not here. I can't for the life of me figure out why none of these are the version I grew up with, but it was a Namco Plug'n Play. It was based off the Arcade version with speed up version of the song you hear in Sharp X1.
You mean the Plug n Play that had also had Pac-Mac, Dig Dig, Bosconian, and Galaxian? That's the one I had.
@@FuzzFeathers no he means either the jakks pacific TV games or the Pac-Man 35th anniversary plug n play with contains the New Rally X, which contains the sped up music of the Sharp X1
this one? ua-cam.com/video/dzs5GsZLs6g/v-deo.html
@@FuzzFeathers I had that one too!
I remember the first time I played Rally X on Plug’n Play.
And same thing for Bosconian too.
Me too
The theme was different though
It was the Sharp X1 theme
Rally X is like Mappy but with cars
How do you know that
It's more like Pac-Man.
@@Deimos_Fresh but with cars
It's more like BOSCONIAN minus CONDITION RED
Rally X is like pacman to me!
Everyone, don't ever expect him to mix New Rally-X in his Rally-X video! They are both different, and they are not the same game!
You are right
Indeed.
But some of the ports are actually ports of New Rally X. Yes, they are different, but some of them are actually ports of that game.
The PSP Ridge Racers had Rally-X (on the original) and New Rally-X (on the sequel, not released in North America?) as a side game - both unlocking a bonus Rally-X themed car in the respective Ridge Racer main mode, once a certain score has been smashed in the Rally-X mode.
A bonus retro Namco game seems to a running theme in the Ridge Racer series.
The first PSP Ridge Racer had New Rally-X
@@DeshiBlacksheep Both PSP Ridge Racers had different Rally-X series games from each other.
@@ToxoRetro Yeah, I'm saying the first one had New Rally-X, not Rally-X
There is a clone of this on the Commodore 64 called Radar Rat Race that featured a mouse and rats for cars, cheese for flags, and cats for rocks.
Rally-X: ⛳️🚙🚗🚗🚗🪨
Radar Rat Race: 🧀🐁🐀🐀🐀🐱
and VIC-20
Wait what? The cats are the immobile obstacles and not the things chasing the player rat?
Wii Rally X looks great :-) Such a great video! Thanks so much for making it
All those years of improving on the game, and somehow the main music kept getting worse
4:30 glitch number
The graphics on the MSX version looks like Adventure for the Atari 2600.
1:16 - 2:01 & 11:04 - 12:00 I Wish I’d Listened To Those Versions, But Couldn’t Find Videos Of Those Versions. If Anyone Does, Send Me Both Links.
En la versión de juego de salón de antes de los 90' el"¡Paff!" del choque que quitaba la vida era infartante
That VIC-25 port looks IMPRESSIVE!
He also forgot about the fujistu micro 7 version oh ya there’s even a sharp mz 1500 release as well
Did you mix up versions of *_Rally X_* and *_New Rally X_* or the *Sharp* versions use the music from *_New Rally X_* into *_Rally X_* ones? I'm a bit confused here, since they are different games, with latter the music is much better and elaborated.
Anyway, interesting video. Didn't know there was a *Windows* version, and that Wii one looks very cool!
They are New Rally X ports, but they're named Rally-X for no apparent reason.
@@peej459 Ah, that's make everything clear then...
Thanks a bunch, bro! 👍✌🤙
The GBA port was released in 2005.
Yes, you right it was in the secon namco museum not in the first one, the 50th aniversary one and in Europe was out in 2006.
My favourite version is actually a bootleg version called BB Car
@Nic ZeroNineEightOneThreeTwoThree NES
@Nic ZeroNineEightOneThreeTwoThree I have it on a multi game cart for the NES I uploaded the music from it
@Nic ZeroNineEightOneThreeTwoThree I said it’s on a multi game cart for the NES
BBCars
"Please note we are not showcasing New Rally X in this video"
(proceeds to showcase ports of New Rally X)
Well they were given the name Rally X, not New Rally X. Plus their rule sets don't fall into either (the slight map layout changes, or the number of cars on the first stage)
@@Wflash00 // Late reply but yeah, those are two slightly similar games, thus making the "We aren't showcasing New Rally X" statement slightly misleading, as some of the ports are basically ports of the 1981 revision, "New Rally-X".
I Like Rally-X-Remix
Why didn’t you include ports of New Rally X?
Buenisimo el Rally X,aunque yo prefiero el New Rally X.
Buen video my friend. I Don´t know if writte you in spanish or english jeje.my girlfriend is english and i am spanish so, Mejor hablo español jeje. No se si sabias de una version en Zx spectrum realizada creo en 2018, de la escena Homebrew, Tom Dalby es el autor. Es una muy buena conversion, pero no sabria decirte ahora mismo si es de éste o del New Rally-X, o de una mezcla de ambos. Anyway, you should to check it, i think it´s amazing for Zx. Gracias por estos video otra vez, un saludo amigo.
I said the same! Salludo!
Oh Oh, and there's Bimbo too ;)
@@TheTenthArt I didn,t know that bimbo and i check it right now and for 1983 and only 16k is not a bad version neither. Every days you learn something. Thank Mate.
I also have the Jakks Pacific version except that the sounds are different most notably the background music. I wonder if it is that the version with the NTSC version is different from the one I have which is presumably PAL.
Wow the vic 20 version isn't as bad as it sounds, makes you wonder how a c64 version would have performed
VIC20版はHAL研究所が開発したものでしょうか。
PC-8001版やFM-7版がないのは悲しい。
I'm 14 Years Old and this Video Came Out 😁
👍🏻
I had Radar Rat Race on the VIC-20 so when I first saw Rally-X I thought that it was a knock-off of that.
Is that music in most versions the same that's in Pac-Mania? Or are they both just ripping off Jim Dandy?
I did not know there was an X68000 version of this game. Cool...
You forgot to include the 1993 GameBoy game Street racer.
How is that possible
@@ilikeminecraft1232 and the sharp MZ700 one
You forgot to include the 2006 Xbox 360 Game Who Knows driving It has a pac-Man Cameo as your driver, it’s also for game boy advance.
And nes
nice old game i remember
I'm curious if the Vic-20 version is just a mod of Radar Rat Race?
Yes one of my favorite games is finally being compared
but I also did research and there appears be another one on the sharp mz 700 as well guys
How is that possible?
@@ilikeminecraft1232 well I went on the internet before, looked at videos in the past on sharp mz 700 and ding ding ding I found one thats really licensed by hal and namco
@@retro-rock3067 ua-cam.com/video/ORQ-C0l0_sw/v-deo.html is this right?
@@ilikeminecraft1232 Yes bro you are correct that is the one retrosutra also forgot
@@retro-rock3067 and there is a sharp mz 800 one ua-cam.com/video/qv4UdfENGFk/v-deo.html
IDK which is better? Arrangement or Remix? Also very excellent game 10/10.
There was an arcade with music from the msx version.
I would suggest you to put as an extra this incredible port made in 2018 for ZX SPectrum, Maze Death Rally-X. BTW, KUDOS!!!
I Forgot! There's Bimbo too! This was a game heavily inspired in Rally X in which you assume the role of a Rabbit.
@Diskun I see. Thnx!
I remember playing rally x on the psp on a remastered collection
I’m pretty sure the Jakks Pacific versions of the Namco games were remade from the ground up.
I can say rally x is for expert’s but the new is for beginners
So the VIC-20 got a proper Rally-X port it seems, not just Radar Rat Race (my ears bleed just thinking about the music on that title!)
the wii one’s tire screech sound is a bit intense
*BANG*
You forgot BB Car, a hack of Rally X by NES
It’s unofficial. In this video, the author only shows ports that are licensed by Namco during it’s heyday.
sega 4:49
Where can i dowload the GBA ver?
Epic intro
What about PSP version?
Under Namco Museum.
In South America I played the Arcade one but it had the music from the Sharp/MSX version but better made. I loved that song as a kid. Anyone know where I can find the Arcade music of that song?
The Arrangement one is nice
Wii for the win, with Sharp X68K a close 2nd!
Yea
Yeah! But I would say that X68K wins because he is Old, very old! :)
@@TheTenthArt for the time. For a 1980’s computer system, it was definitely ahead of its time. It was right up there with the Atari ST & the Commodore Amiga.
I love rally-x and new rally-X
I only played the arcade and MSX versions
Good
There is one arcade version from the 80s where Stages 1-3 the background color is green, stages 4-7 red-maroon, 8-11 ??? and 12-15 grey-ish day-sky blue. Has someone else seen it?
Yes!, actually the rally X is very sammy
Sad to see the plug and play isn’t on this list
COOL CHANNEL !!!!!
Yes it is
how do i download it on my computer, its a windows 7
I thought there was an NES version of this game
There are bootleg ports such as Jovial Race and BB Car
I loved the Wii Version
一度のミスが命取りだ！
There's also a version for the Colecovision - ua-cam.com/video/d3FMw_9cxH8/v-deo.html
ラリーX 懐かしいｽね(*´∀｀*)
中でも、アレンジ版は病み付きました。
最終ラウンド15ですべてのチェックポイントを通過後に
ゴールゲートへの到達に成功時の達成感がなんとも言えなかったです。
I don't think it's a good idea to mix "RALLY-X" and "NEW RALLY-X".
There is also a homebrew version on the Atari 2600.
Sharp X68K clear winner here !
ファミコン化しなかったのが唯一の心残り。何度もナムコのアンケートハガキにラリーX出してって書いたなぁ。
Rally Car X is available is Android Too in 2018
I guess the plug and play’s had their own version...
A versão do MSX matou a pau!!!
The Original Arcade GamePlay Song Is Best Than Main Theme Of This Game In Actual Days
I want New rally X next video please
I guess everybody want it. Huh?
@@AnimationMaster167 i think yes because rally x was the first and maybe the others want the second (new rally x)
Maybe I can tell you about the ports of new rally-x.
Arcade Original
Fujitsu Micro 7 / FM-7
Sharp MZ-1500
Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 Arcade
Playstation 1
and a non emulated port on ridge racer.
@@AnimationMaster167 Great
Jaks Pacific version canon period.
Colecovision Game Port are not an oficial Port. CV SGM Port I hope Will in the Clones Comparison on when You Make of Rally-X.
New Rally X🏆👑👍
WOW the inicial music is for Pacman lol
NAMCO Rally-X Games
cool
And fun
This game is good for the VIC-20 and MSX, or Gameboy but on the Playstation? With this coding skill and energy, they could have written a better game. Car chase with action in a city. The best version is Arcade Arrangement because of advanced graphics and excellent music.