Rally Bug (2008) Walkthrough + Review, ZX Spectrum
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Introduction:
To mark the occasion of his 700th birthday, the Great Astral Trout of Winchester 7 in the galaxy of Louth has decreed that a motor race assault course be constructed, and that races be held upon it each year with moderately generous prizes for those brave enough to take up the challenge. Not wishing to annoy their spiritual mentor because he's bigger than anybody else, the Trouts, usually more keen on crosswords than motor racing, set about building an exciting but also rather dangerous track. The challenge is then issued to alien races in the vicinity of Winchester 7. The entrant who completes the course in the fastest time will receive enough fish fingers and cheesecake to live on for a year, not to mention the undying respect of the Great Astral Trout who will be watching the race on a telly in his shed. He has even promised to name his pet radish after the winner.
Unfortunately, during the construction phase, our fishy hosts seem to have carelessly left letters from their crosswords lying around. Anyone who picks them up and rearranges them to form useful words will be rewarded with a full tank of petrol. Sounds like a fair deal to me, anyway.
Review:
You have to navigate your car around an assault course. You have to go right all the time until you reach the goal. You can stop up and stand totally still, and you can also drive left, but just until you reach the border of the screen, because the scrolling only goes to the right and not to the left. Many hazards such as enemies, rockets and big holes has to be avoided. A timer at the right top of the screen shows the time remaining. If you fail to complete a section within the time limit you will lose a life. Touching the enemies, getting hit by rockets, driving into holes, or running out of petrol also means the loss of a life.
Collect the letters and you can use them to guess the words the Trouts are trying to find in their crossword puzzle. If you make an incorrect guess this will cost you petrol, but complete the word and you will be rewarded with a full tank. For guessing the words you have to have collected the letters, if you have not collected the specific letter you are missing in the word it is not possible to guess it before the letter is collected. When driving on the assault course you are also using petrol.
This game combines the driving on an assault course with Hangman so it is kind of special. There is a lot of levels, the difficulty seems fair, and the game plays and controls well. The menu screen features AY music by Yerzmyey.
There are 16 levels and this walkthrough ends when the game loops.
The game was made by Jonathan Cauldwell in 2008.
Rating = 84%
Download tape version: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=21316
Download Beta disk version: https://vtrd.in/gamez/r/RALBU_SG.ZIP
Buy cassette here: https://cronosoft.fwscart.com/RALLYBUG_+_BANGER_MANAGEMENT_-_Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum_48K_cassette/p5357732_18482133.aspx