Rat Race

Williams

Rat Race

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Manufacturer

Williams Electronic Games, Inc. (United States)

January 1st, 1983

10 units

Rat Race on the IPSND.


Main details

2 player game

Alphanumeric

head to head

Unknown

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Playfield details

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Design team

Concept: Steve Kordek
Game Design: Barry Oursler
Software: Dave Rzepka
Artwork: Pam Erickson


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Noteworthy features

The machine either has no notable features or, more likely, no one has entered them in our database yet.

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).

Backbox ornament(s)

It is unknown wether any backbox ornaments were available for this machine.

Video mode

This machine has no dot matrix or video display, so it has no videmode.

Latest software version

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