This is one of those racing games where the cars have weapons. Death Rally takes the familiar racing combat genre a bit farther by letting you kill even the spectators. You race on different tracks and make money which you can use to upgrade your car and buy weapons. In addition to the power-ups that appear on the track, there are hallucinogenic mushrooms that distort your vision. Creative elements include gamblers who pay you to destroy opponents they are betting against and loan sharks who help you buy upgrades faster, among other shady characters. Between the gameplay, crazy voices, and realistic graphics and sounds, this is one of the best racing games I have ever played. VESA VBE 1.0 is necessary to run this game. The races run in 320×240×256c VGA resolution, but the rest of the game runs in 640×480×256c SVGA Mode 101. There are 19 tracks and 6 types of car in the registered version, with only 6 tracks and 3 cars playable in the shareware version.

Graphics

Downloads

Complete version history:

Death Rally v1.1 Shareware Episode (6,916,681 bytes)	1 October 1996	DOS
Death Rally v1.0 Shareware Episode (6,974,781 bytes)	6 September 1996	DOS

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Availability

Apogee still sells the registered version of this game for $5.99 by download. Remedy Software released Death Rally for Windows v1.0, a Windows XP port of the game that might run in Win9x, as freeware on 20 October 2009.

Cheat Codes

Customer Cheat

Cheats within Menu

DRAW - Get $1000
DROOL - Get $500000
DRIVE - Get 10 points (only in registered version)
DROP - Drop 10 points

Cheats within game

DRUG - Mushroom effect
DRINK - Rocket fuel
DRUB - No-damage
DREAD - Unlimited ammo
DRAG - Unlimited turbo