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Rally-X Arcade Game (Jan 1981)

Name: Rally-X Arcade Game (Jan 1981)
Start: 2026-01-10
Location: Spesoft Forums

10 January 2026

Event created by tthurman

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https://forums.gameex.com/forums/events/event/82-rally-x-arcade-game-jan-1981/

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This event began 01/10/15 and repeats every year until 01/10/75

Rally-X (ラリーX Rarī-Ekkusu^?) is a maze & driving arcade game, that was released by Namco in 1980 and licensed to Midway Games for US manufacture and distribution in 1981. It was the first game to have "Background Music". Also, it was the first game from the company to feature "Special Flags", which would become a recurring object in later games (along with the Galaxian flagship and their signature character Pac-Man; the latter also made his arcade debut in 1980).
It was the first game to feature a "bonus round",^[^{citation needed}^] and the first of only three Namco games of its time period whose score display did not roll over at 1,000,000. The object is for the player car to "capture" all of the flags scattered around the field before the red cars catch it. It also features an early example of a radar, to show the cars' and flags' locations on the map.