Hey all! I thought it might be fun to play some video games, separately, together! I‘ve always liked the idea of throwing a bunch of old racing games in a hat, picking one at random, then choosing a track and over the course of the next week, everyone who’s interested competes to get the best time they can, then we post our best times and maybe chat about strategy or the game/track/course/whatever!
[Inspired by this post over on Cohost](https://cohost.org/plumpan/post/2387685-so-hey-when-are-the), I figured it would be good to start with a game that's very much a known quantity in this community, so let's kick this sucker off with a good old fashioned **_SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP!!_**. We'll be playing the **Sega Saturn** version and focusing explicitly on the first track, **DESERT**. Real hardware or emulation is fine by me, this isn't exactly a formal competition here. Use whatever control input method you want! I think times may be different on the arcade version and the PS2 release of Sega Rally '95, but hey, if that's all you have available I'm not gonna stop you. I ain't no police cop. I know there are multiple variations of the game, even in the Saturn port, depending on your region, so I'm defaulting to the standard US release what had the silver box and all that, but again, you do you. Maybe this would be a fun way to find out which versions of the game are faster or slower etc.! Personally I'll be playing that release on my Saturn with the wheel peripheral thingy.
With that all having been said, lights out and away we go! May all your lefts be easy and maybe!
I’m not great at Sega Rally, but here are my first three Time Attacks. I’m playing on a Japanese Saturn on a crt via s-video.
This is the version I played: [URL=https://i.imgur.com/QrNXxpE.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/QrNXxpE.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Here is my first run: [URL=https://i.imgur.com/ppORcfC.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ppORcfC.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
My second run: [URL=https://i.imgur.com/NYggqxg.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/NYggqxg.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
And third run: [URL=https://i.imgur.com/lpaHBbQ.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/lpaHBbQ.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
I used this as an excuse to download and try the latest alpha build for the MiSTer core. Surprisingly Sega Rally Championship works quite well, but most of the audio isn't there. gonna have to emulate this one on my PC
I‘m not any good at racing games!~ But I think this is a cool idea, so let’s go!
Ran the course a few times tonight. I'll be honest, I don't fully get the mechanics of this game yet and I'm just working on sub- 1 minute laps. Got one so far!
@“andrewelmore”#p129105 I dig this idea and would like to see it continue for all sorts of games. BUT I think it would also be great to just have a specific racing/driving game thread. All sorts of great courses and tracks out there to be attacked!
