DAILY CHALLENGE
RALLY-X
Maze · Chase · Rally-X (Namco, 1980)
Grab all 10 flags with the red cars on your tail.
Free play does not count for the leaderboard: it keeps your best on this device only. Today's challenge is one run per person.
HOW IT PLAYS
You drive a car through a maze four times the size of the screen (the camera follows you) and have to pick up its 10 flags while the red cars chase you along the shortest path. The radar on the right shows the whole maze: the flags still out there in yellow, you in cyan and the red cars in red. Touching a red car or hitting a rock costs a car; you have three.
Fuel burns on its own (it lasts from 66 s at level 1 to 44 s at level 6) and is refilled at the start of each round and with every new car; without it you crawl at half speed and there is no smoke. FIRE drops a cloud where you are: it costs 30, lasts 4 s and up to 3 can be out at once. A red car that drives into it spins for 2 s and then loses your trail. On level 5 three red cars start out, a little slower than you (at 95%); each round brings the next map, red cars 3% faster and one more every two rounds; if a round goes past a minute, a reinforcement arrives every 20 s (up to 6).
CONTROLS
Directions to steer: the car never brakes, it keeps going on its own until it hits a wall, and the turn you ask for is kept until the next junction. FIRE drops smoke.
On screen: GRAB ALL 10 FLAGS FIRE SMOKE
HOW POINTS ARE SCORED
TO SCORE MORE
· Go for the S first (the blinking one): every flag you take after it is worth double. If it is the first of the round, the round goes from 1100 to 2180 points.
· Smoke works backwards: drop it when a red car is right on your tail. If one comes head-on, turn around (it is instant) and then drop the cloud.
· Check the radar before going down a long street: the red cars come out of the corners and, with one coming from each end, there is no way out. Rocks kill too, and the red cars never hit them.
· Fuel is your clock and every cloud costs 30. The L doubles a small bonus (what is left ÷ 10): pick it up on the way, do not go out of your way for it. If you lose a car, the next one starts with a full tank.
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