What Rally said bugged me.Īt work a kid came to me with a problem. It was closing time and I had to go home. Eventually the game went back to the start screen, and when I tried talking to the game I realized the janitor was right behind me asking what the heck I was doing still here and why I was talking to a video game. Then, he started ranting about how his graphics were better than Pac-Man’s and Defender’s and how he should have become famous. He got his own cartoon, for Pete’s sake! And what did I get? One sequel and dozens of cheap rip-offs.”Īfter reading this I felt slightly disturbed that Rally knew so much about the outside world, but I also felt sorry for him. What made Pac-Man better than me? We were both maze games, but for some reason people liked his maze better than mine. I did moderately well, but I can’t get over this fact that I didn’t live up to the expectations placed on me. In 1980 at the AMOA trade show, I was told I was the best of the best. ”I had good graphics, unique game play, all of the ingredients to a successful game. It said “I came into this world with high expectations. Then all of the sudden the text he used to talk turned black. One day he asked if he could tell me something, and I said sure.
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I asked Rally why this was, to which he replied that he was better than the other games, which surprised me since he never seemed full of himself before. I noticed none of the other games talked, just Rally. So I talked to Rally for a while, and I came back every day after work. I assumed that I was talking to the racer shown on the side of the game. “That’s your name?” I asked, to which the game replied with the game theme. In response the title screen came up, but instead of “Rally-X” it just said “Rally.” I decided to start off basic and asked, “What’s your name?” I stuttered for a bit, trying to think of what to say next. I was a bit startled, since I wasn’t even sure that was going to work. The machine buzzed for a moment, and then the word “Hello” appeared on the screen. I looked around to make sure no one was watching, knowing full well this was crazy, and then started talking to the game.
Sure enough, the game started without any quarters being inserted, and there was nothing but the car. The next day I put in a quarter during break and played the game, but nothing happened. I looked in the quarter box and discovered that there was no quarter in the box at all. Then the game over screen came up and it went back to normal. I looked up to see what happened and saw the words, “Don’t do that!” on the screen. I was about to unplug the game and plug it back in, when a loud crash sound came from the game, scaring the crap out of me. There were no rocks, no enemies, no flags, nothing but the little blue car. Yeah, I’m strange, I know, shut up.Īnyhow, I went over and grabbed the joystick and began moving the car around, but I couldn’t find any flags, and there was nothing on the radar. I guessed someone had abandoned their game, and felt sorry for it, so I played it. One day after work I noticed the Rally-X machine was actually on a level. Ugh, I hate it when people make my job harder!
I remember trying to scrub off some obscenities someone wrote on the machine in permanent marker. It actually was a bit dusty, and it was pretty old looking, not in very good condition. When gamers actually did come in to play games, Rally-X wasn’t exactly their first choice. Right in the corner of the classic arcade games section was an old Rally-X. They had Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Junior, Road Blasters, a Black Knight pinball machine, TRON, and a bunch of space shooters, among other titles. The arcade dedicated one section of the building to classic arcade games. But still, you can’t get an experience like “Dark Escape 4d” at home, or anything with motion simulators for that matter. I have to face the fact that arcades don’t really stay in business much these days, because people can play games in their own homes. The arcade had some of the newest arcade games, which made its closing surprising to me. After that the building was for rent and in came the arcade. The arcade was in this small building that used to be the local Goodwill store until it moved to a bigger building. It was only briefly, because the arcade closed down after about eight months.
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