Talk:Rally-X

Trivia

I'm thinking it might be added to the Trivia Section that the background music was also used for the Nivel X main theme, Nivel X was a kinda well known argentine videogame related show, aired on Magic Kids which even today enjoys a cult-like following. I don't know what it could be used as a reliable referency, but the show and its intro can be found on YouTube. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.142.137.187 (talk) 02:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Rally-X Soundtrack

The article states that the soundtrack is "unique to this game". However, the version I have played (which is NOT the original arcade game) is a very clear variation of the Pac Man theme (during the interlude after level 2, when a "giant" Pac Man chases the ghosts). Rally X is a Namco game, which also produced Pac Man. This needs to be verified.

That one is NEW Rally-X, which adds the Lucky Flag, which scores your fuel bonus, and the new theme. The original Rally-X has a different in game tune.74.211.59.145 (talk) 19:48, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Retro/Racing?

This is not a racing game in the usual sense of racing video games (Color TV Racing 112, Pole Position, Initial D, etc). It's not even a vehicular combat game (Mario Kart balloon battle, Twisted Metal). It's more of an eat-em-up, a scrolling version of Pac-Man with Pac-Man and ghosts turned into cars and pills turned into flags. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 02:43, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree that Rally-X isn't really a racing game. It's a maze game with a racing "theme". Radar Rat Race is essentially the same game with different graphics, and one would be hard-pressed to call it a racing game. The linked to KLOV's page on Rally-X also classifies Rally-X as a maze game. --Laurence Gonsalves 20:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Rally-X Pronounciation

Just a thought, but has it occured to anyone that Rally-X might actuially be pronounced Rally Cross? Which is how Japanese usually call the X symbol (the Playstation Controller for instance), Rally Cross does make for a more gramatical title also. --Guru Larry (talk) 10:28, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

The problem is, unless there's a valid reference denoting how this title is meant to be pronounced, your theory represents WP:OR. And regardless, the written title of the game is Rally-X and not Rally Cross. So at the most, if you could find a reference on pronunciation then you could add a note about that in the article. But retitling based on pronunciation would be out. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 15:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Rally-X is based on a 70's black&white game

Rally-X is a multidirectional driving game based on another very similar, but made earlier, and black&white - it's a very important missing information - please help me know which game is it, for fixing the information on this wikipedia page - thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.196.93.63 (talk) 11:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure you're not thinking of Radar Rat Race, a b&w clone of Rally-X released in 1981? ✰^oaoii/talk 19:46, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Not the first game with a soundtrack.

Sheriff (Nintendo, arcade, 1979) predates it, though there may be earlier games still. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.79.110.43 (talk) 15:55, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Indrian (talk · contribs) 15:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure, why not. Indrian (talk) 15:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Had a feeling you'd look at this one. This blog post was real helpful with fact-checking the claim that it was seen as the game to outdo Pac-Man (spoilers: it wasn't). Namcokid47 16:11, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Namcokid47 I cannot really find anything to complain about in this article at all. I only have two things for you. First is a garbled sentence in the lead. I usually correct this kind of thing myself, but in this case, I am having trouble figuring out the original intent: "the latter argument is believed to what have attributed to its lack of success originally"

What I was trying to say is that critics believed its innovation is ultimately what made it unsuccessful at the time. Rally-X was released when maze chase games were still new ― Pac-Man wasn't even a year old when this game came out, so in addition to getting used to this kind of genre, you had mechanics like a radar that required lots of multitasking. I tried rewriting it several times, but had a hard time summarizing it while also having it make sense, so I left it out.

Second, the phrase "Namco released a port for the MSX in 1984 that was designed after New Rally-X," creates unnecessary ambiguity. I imagine you mean that the game was based on New Rally-X despite being called just plain old Rally-X, but using "after" here would more traditionally mean that it was designed later than New Rally-X rather than adopting its gameplay.

Clarified that it adopted the gameplay of its sequel despite using the name Rally-X.

I am not even going to bother formally putting this on hold. Just fix these two really minor issues, and I will promote. Indrian (talk) 03:37, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Indrian: Addressed comments. Thank you for reviewing. Namcokid47 14:59, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

And promoted. Indrian (talk) 19:54, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Better source needed for the January demostration

The japanese websites posted here as sources seem to have "1980-01" just as a placeholder, indicating "somewhere in 1980", I don't think games at that time were show with so much anticipation. The japanese wikipedia page mentions a Japanese release in november of that yer. Mirad1000 (talk) 00:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)