Sega rally was one of the first rallying games in the arcade that really caught my attention.  It didn’t try to play like a simulator.  I certainly didn’t have the skill factor o a V-Rally and it never tried to do that.  What you got was a straight out arcade racing game and it was so much fun to play.

To start of; you chose between two cars:  The Toyota Celica and the Corolla.  The Celica was the smaller of the two vehicles and had tight handling.  It was able to take corners tighter. Where as the Corolla was heavier and could power slide better.  I preferred the Corolla for it heavier handling; it enabled me to drive faster around the corners and had a higher top speed.

My friend preferred the Celica and when we played the two player option, where one player was above the other, there was some serious battles to win.  This was always played in a good spirit.  Sometimes he would win and other time I would win.

In the arcade mode, I found that the cars positions on the road never changed and that was something I hoped would change in any follow up; it never did.

If you wanted a challenge, you could increase the level but, all I really did was reduce you time a move the cars further apart.  It has it problems with glitching.  What would happen was the background would suddenly appear but after playing the game for a long while, I didn’t have time to notice this.  If you wanted to win the three stages and the bonus forth stage, you had to be on the top of your game and needed a little bit of luck to finish first after the bonus stage.  It was hard but fair and I for one enjoy every minute of play.