Jovial Race (迷魂車) is a port of Rally-X, made for the Famicom and NES by Joy Van in 1989. It was published by Thin Chen Enterprise.
Overview[]
This game is a port of the arcade game Rally-X. The player drives around collecting flags and avoiding other cars until all flags have been collected.
Using the B button, they can attack the cars by dropping tree trails which if the enemies crash into, they get stuck for a few seconds.
The player gets 3 lives and infinite continues, and a limited amount of fuel which decreases quicker while trails are being dropped. Running out of fuel, however, sill simply slow the car down to a crawl and render thwm unable to drop trails.
Through each level, numerous objects appear on the road. Some awards money while driving on a Duck or a puddle make the player lose money or fuel respectively.
Pressing Start brings up a shop that offers special items like Turbo, a rocket, a gun, extra lives and others. The game is 75 levels long, though on certain emulators it goes back to the title screen after level 50.
Trivia[]
- Jovial Race was advertised on the back of some generic bootlegs cartridges with a year of 1988.
- The Chinese title (which is also shared by Hwang Shinwei's own port of Rally-X called BB Car) is what Rally-X is called in Chinese territories.
- A Mega Duck/Game Boy port of Rally X done by Sachen also shares the Chinese name of this game (and artwork on some multis,) although its English name is Street Rider.
- This is Joy Van's first developed game, and the first game to be published by Sachen.
- If the player press select when the player were starting a bonus game, the player can change the music track that plays during gameplay.
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