Rally Speedway is an early racing game for the Atari 8-bit family

Atari 8-bit family

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips...

. It was originally developed by John Anderson and marketed by Adventure International

Adventure International

Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

 in 1983. It was later ported to the Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

, and marketed by Commodore International

Commodore International

Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore Business Machines , the U.S.-based home computer manufacturer and electronics manufacturer headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, which also housed Commodore's corporate parent company, Commodore International Limited...

. The concept for Rally Speedway was inspired by the Mattel Intellivision Auto Racing

Auto Racing (video game)

Auto Racing is a video game released by Mattel for its Intellivision video game system in 1979. Auto Racing pits two players against each other using a top-down perspective on one of five different race courses....

game. Rally Speedway is a graphical enhancement that also allows the user to create and save their own race tracks.

External links

• Rally Speedway at Atarimania
• Rally Speedway at GameFAQs
• Rally Speedway at tin-cup.net