Sega Rally Championship

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Sega Rally Championship
System(s): Sega Model 2A CRX, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PC
Publisher: Sega
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Genre: Racing

















Sega Rally Championship, also known simply as Sega Rally or occasionally by the extended title of Sega Rally Championship 1995, is a 1995 arcade racing game developed by Sega AM5 for Sega Model 2A CRX arcade hardware. It was later ported over to the Sega Saturn by Sega AM3 and PC.

Sega Rally has the player drive either a Toyota Celica CT-Four or a Lancia Delta HF Integrale across three tracks. As it is a rally game there is no concept of "laps" (at least, not in the arcade version), just a beginning and end. There are, however, computer players which need to be avoided, with the overall aim of finishing in first place at the end of third course (the positions are carried through to each track, so if a user finishes in 10th on the first track, he or she will start in 10th place on the second).

Sega Rally is notable for being the first racing game to allow you to drive on different surfaces (including asphalt, gravel and mud), each with different friction properties which adjust the car's handling accordingly. Previous games often included different surfaces to drive on, though surfaces such as grass would simply reduce the top speed of the car, not the handling. These features allow Sega Rally to stand out as a rally game, rather than a generic racing game with rally-esque settings. Codemasters have cited Sega Rally as a strong influence on their first Colin McRae Rally game.

Also notable in Sega Rally is the inclusion of a third "secret" car, a Lancia Stratos HF. The Stratos in Sega Rally is a more powerful and harder to handle car, which presumably was not included with the other two by default due to its age (the Stratos won the World Rally Championship three times in the 1970s, while the Delta won between 1987 and 1992 and the Celica 1993 and 1994. This means the Delta and Celica were "current").

Surprisingly this is not the first time the Lancia Stratos was playable in a Sega game - Safari Race for the SG-1000 contains both Lancia Stratoses and Audi Quattros.

The three tracks in Sega Rally are known simply as "Desert" (easy), "Forest" (medium) and "Mountain" (hard). The Saturn version of the game includes another track, "Lakeside", which is unlocked after finishing in first place.

1996 saw the release of Sega Rally Championship Plus in Japan. Plus is very much the same game, but adds XBAND support and is tuned to work with the 3D Control Pad. There is a similar version released in the US under the title of Sega Rally Championship Plus: NetLink Edition, swapping XBAND support for Sega NetLink support, but does not feature analogue 3D Control Pad support.

Sega Rally was followed by Sega Rally 2 for Sega Model 3 hardware and later the Sega Dreamcast. It was also bundled as a box set with Sega Rally 2006 for the Sony PlayStation 2.

Production Credits (Saturn Version)

Producer: Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Director: Ryichi Hatori, Atsutomo Nakagawa
Supervisor: Yoshio Fujimoto, Tein
Game Writters: Keneth Ibrahim, Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Head Programmers: Ryichi Hattori, Osamu Hori
Programmers: Kouichi Toya, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Koji Kaifu
Head Graphic Designers: Minoru Matsura, Shiro Kinemura
Graphic Designers: Saori Wada, Masashi Kudo, Maiko Kitgawa
Sound Producers: Yukifumi Makino, Takayuki Hijikata
Sound Director: Tatsuya Kousaki
Music Composers: Naofumi Hataya, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Sound Effects: Seirou Okamoto, Tatsuya Kousaki
Sound Programmers: Naomi Yamamoto, Tadahiko Inoue, Yoshiaki Kashima
Recording Studio: Sega Digital Studio
Recording Producer: Tatsutoshi Narita
Recording Director: Fumitaka Shibata
Recording Engineer: Naoyuki Machida
Publicity: Hitoto Kikuchi, Ryutaro Nonaka, Tadashi Takezaki, Yasushi Nagumo
Overseas Coordination: James Spahn, Ryoichi Hasegawa
Manual Preparation: Hiroyuki Mitsui, Hiroya Tanaka, Hayato Takebayshi
Special Thanks: Kenji Sasaki, Sohei Yamamoto, Shinji Kawahira, Jun Senoue, Yoji Ishii, Koichi Nagata, Makoto Oshitani, Yutaka Kamimura, Ko Tanaka, Mario Cotza, Koki Takahira (Car Graphic), Toshiya Hasegawa (Rally Xpress), C-One Corpoation, Castroi, Michelin
Created By: Sega Rosso, Hitmaker (Saturn Version)
Published By: Sega Enterprises. Ltd.

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Physical Scans

Model 2 Version

Saturn Version

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Saturn, US (Plus: NetLink Edition)
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Saturn, JP
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Saturn, JP (Plus)
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Saturn, JP (Plus) (Satakore)
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PC Version

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Games in the Sega Rally Series
Arcade
Sega Rally Championship (Special Stage) (1995) | Sega Rally 2 (1998) | Sega Rally 3 (2008)
Sega Saturn
Sega Rally Championship (Plus | NetLink) (1995-1997)
Windows PC
Sega Rally Championship (1997) | Sega Rally 2 (1999) | Sega Rally Revo (2007)
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Rally 2 (1999)
Game Boy Advance
Sega Rally Championship (2002)
N-Gage
Sega Rally Championship (2004)
Sony PlayStation 2
Sega Rally 2006 (2006) | Sega Rally Championship (2006)
Xbox 360
Sony PlayStation 3
Sony PlayStation Portable
Sega Rally Revo (2007)
Xbox Live Arcade
PlayStation 3 PlayStation Network
Sega Rally Online Arcade (2011)
Sega Rally related media
Music
Sega Rally Championship Ignition (1995) | Competition/Sega Rally Championship Complete (1996) | Sega Rally 2 (1998) | Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album: Another Entries (1999) | Sega Rally 2006 Original Sound Track (2006) | Sega Rally Revo (2008) | Sega Rally Championship: New Century Arrange Album (2013) | Sega Rally Championship: 30th Anniv. Album (2024)
Book
Sega Rally Championship Competition Driving Guide (1995) | Sega Rally Championship Course Attack Manual (1996) | Sega Rally Championship Hisshou Kouryaku Hou (1996) | Sega Rally 2 Official Guide (1998) | Sega Rally 2 Championship Competition Driving Guide (1998) | Sega Rally 2 Driving Naviation Book (1999) | Sega Rally 2 Kanzen Kouryaku!! (1999) | Sega Rally 2 Hisshou Kouryaku-hou (1999)
Film
CGMV Sega Rally Championship 1995 (1995)