Sega Rally

Sega Rallyis a series of 3Dracing video gamespublished bySega.The first game in the series,Sega Rally Championship,was developed bySega AM3and released in arcades in 1994. Later games were developed by Sega andSega Racing Studio.

Sega Rally
Genre(s)	Racing
Developer(s)	Sega AM5(1994–1999) Sega(2006) Sega Racing Studio(2007–2008)
Publisher(s)	Sega
First release	Sega Rally Championship October 11, 1994
Latest release	Sega Rally Online Arcade May 18, 2011

2 Player version ofSega Rally.Up to four can be linked for multiplayer racing, and a fifth unit added to show the action from external perspectives.

Installments

There have been five games released in theSega Rallyseries. Two games were developed bySega AM3,one was developed bySega,and two were developed bySega Racing Studio.Theoriginal game,designed byTetsuya Mizuguchi,was released on theModel 2 boardand became very popular in the arcades, later receiving a port to theSega Saturn.

This port was of excellent quality, running in smooth 30frames per second(25 fps on European PAL systems) and looking very much like the arcade original. Exceptions included non-transparent windows since the Saturn could not generatetransparenciesin 3D graphics,draw distanceshorter than in the arcade game, and lowerresolution.A Windows port using onDirectXfollowed about a year later. The biggest difference between the original and its home versions is the option to drive three laps on each of the four implemented tracks instead of only one lap. Good players could also unlock an extra car: theLancia Stratos.

Sega Rally Championship 2was released on the Model 3 board and was ported toDreamcastin November 1998, making it one of the first Japanese Dreamcast games available. However, the Dreamcast version suffered from an unstable frame rate and wasn't as successful as its predecessor. The arcade original featured only four courses, while the port had between one and three courses for each of the five implemented environments, all wrapped up in a 10-year championship. Again, a PC port followed.Sega Rally Championship 2on DC and PC featured a lot of tuning options for the cars, including choice oftiresandsuspension,which could not be found in the arcades.

Sega Rally 3was released in 2008 and is a condensed version ofSega Rally Revofor Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. This time the port went the other way around.Sega Rally 3was released asSega Rally Online Arcadefor Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011 and came full circle from consoles to arcades and back again.

Mobile phone titles were also released: on theN-Gage,and also aJavaversion developed by Rockpool Games.

Released titles

All games of theSega Rally-series by system

Title	Year	Arcade	PC	PS3	X360	PSP	PS2	DC	SAT	N-Gage	J2ME	GBA
Sega Rally Championship	1994/1995a	Y	Y	N	N	N	Yb	N	Y	Y	N	Y
Sega Rally 2	1998/1999	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	Y	N	N	N	N
Sega Rally 2006b	2006	N	N	N	N	N	Yb	N	N	N	N	N
Sega Rally Revo	2007	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N
Sega Rally 3D	2007	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	Y	N
Sega Rally 3/ Sega Rally Online Arcade	2008/2011c	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N

^aThe first year for arcade, the second for home console or PC
^bReleased only in Japan and South Korea
^cNot released in Japan

External links

• Official website (Japanese)