Rat Race (Williams, 1983)

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Backbox & Videomode

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This machine has no dot matrix display thus it has no videmode.

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Trivia

• This rather odd machine was housed in a 'table' style housing, which looked like the one on Joust (WMS 1983). It was however not a head to head game. Instead, one or two players took turns and had to control a tilting playfield (which looked like a giant labyrinth game) with the help of two joysticks.
• In addition to the physical elements of the maze sections, there were software-controlled lights used to create different goals for the sections as play progressed.
• Apparently the joystick-controlled motor system for tilting the playfield was extremely complicated and expensive, and didn't provide the kind of precise control necessary to play the game.
• Some of the 10 prototype games do still exist in private hands, but no photos (other than the promotional flyers) exist of this machine (on the internet).