Sega Rally Championship (Game)

Sega Rally Championship

GAME » on January 1995

Arcade (Platform)Game Boy Advance (Platform)N-Gage (Platform)PC (Platform)Saturn (Platform)

The first in Sega's series of rally racing games, giving players the choice between a Toyota Celica or Lancia Delta as they take on asphalt, gravel, dirt, and mud to earn the best time.

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Sega Rally Championship, also known as Sega Rally Championship 1995, is a rally racing game developed by Sega's AM3 division and released by Sega for arcades (using their Model 2 hardware) on January 1995.

Based on the sport of rally racing, Sega Rally Championship is unique for its more accurate simulation of multiple track surfaces. It also features the point-to-point single-lap system of traditional rally racing, four courses (one of which is a bonus track), and its use of licensed rally cars (with players driving either the Lancia Delta HF Integrale or the Toyota Celica GT-Four). It later received multiple sequels, including the direct 1998 sequel Sega Rally 2 (Game).

The game was later ported by Sega's CS division to the Sega Saturn in Japan and North America on December 28, 1995, with a later European release on January 24, 1996. Although it is less graphically intensive as the arcade version, it features a replay system, car tuning, a bonus hidden car (the Lancia Stratos HF), and two-player split-screen multiplayer. This version later received two region-specific re-releases: Sega Rally Championship Plus (released in Japan on September 26, 1996) and Sega Rally Championship: NetLink Edition (released in North America on August 5, 1997). Both re-releases feature online multiplayer support (with XBAND for the Plus version and NetLink for the NetLink Edition). The Saturn version was also used as the basis for the PC (Platform) port on January 1997 (titled Sega Rally Championship PC in Japan).

The game was later ported to the PlayStation 2 (Platform) in 2006 as a special bundle with Japanese versions of Sega Rally 2006 (Game). Two mobile games (one for the Game Boy Advance (Platform) and one for the Nokia N-Gage) were released with the name, but they are ports of Sega Rally 2 (Game).

A special version of this game, Sega Rally: Special Stage, was released in 1996 as an attraction at Sega's Joypolis venues. It features a full-scale car controller (modelled after the Celica).

Courses

Desert Stage
Forest Stage
Mountain Stage
Lakeside Stage (only available as a bonus course if the player ends the championship in first place)

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