Radar Rally

Version 0.81 - 25-Dec-2025

Race around mazes collecting yellow flags and avoiding red cars.

Early 1980's style arcade action based on Rally-X, Crush Roller and Pac-Man.

• 9 game modes 
• 3 special modes (allowing mirrored maps)
• Create map packs to share with others (paid version only)
  • Built in Xmas 2025 map pack thanks to the Gentlemen's Pixel Club
• Hall of fame and achievements

Watch the launch video from the Gentlemen's Pixel Club:

https://youtu.be/BoEB1YkQ97U

Watch the Xmas 2025 video from the Gentlemen's Pixel Club:

https://youtu.be/laDIOJiJsp0

Performance issues on Windows in a multi-monitor setup?
Try running on your primary monitor, e.g., if you're on a laptop, try running on your laptop screen.

Controls

Keyboard

• Arrow keys to move
• X - select/drop smoke
• Z - move back (from menus, hi-score entry etc)

Controller

• Left stick to move
• X (left button of 4) - select/fire

Hi-Score Entry

• Up/Down - select a letter
• X - accept letter
• Z - move back a letter

Options

The "Options" menu allows you to toggle the following:

• Photo-Sensitive Mode
  • Flashing effects, e.g., when you enter or exit Pac-Man or Rat-Race power-ups are disabled
• Solid Radar Background
  • By default, the radar shows the game screen behind. This option makes the radar black for better visibility
• Large Player Radar Icon
  • Having trouble seeing where you are on the radar? Turn this option on and your radar icon appears double-size
• Background Music
• Allows you to turn off the background music but still hear sound effects and jingles

Special Modes

From the main menu, you can use left and right to select the "Special Mode " which is shown in yellow above the menu.  This affects ALL game modes, including Map Packs:

• Regular Play
• Mirrored Play
  • All maps are mirrored vertically
• Random Mirrored Play
  • Maps will be mirrored randomly including horizontally and/or vertical ly. Or no mirroring at all!

Game Modes

Radar Rally

Plays similar to New Rally-X but with power-ups.

Rally-X

Harder courses like the original Rally-X but with overbridges to mix things up a bit.

Rat Race

Played Radar Rat Race on the Commodore 64 or VIC 20? This may look familiar.

Painter

Paint the entire track, avoiding chasers or destroying them using purple "zip" flags.

Remember to clean up the tyre marks if chasers spin out!

Practice

Practice any course, including Painter courses.

Bomber

The tables have turned. Chase down the green cars and explode them before all yellow flags are collected, otherwise it's game over!

GPC

A random selection of 4 special maps created by the Gentlemen's Pixel Club (possibly the game's no. 1 fan in the entire world!)

Timed

Select your course of choice. You have 2 minutes to amass the highest score possible. 

Timed+

Played like Timed mode but on a huge GPC course and with the ability to extend the 2 minutes.

Map Editor

Create your own courses.

Pick your own colour palette and styles.

Choose power-ups.

And much, much more...

Map Packs

Combine maps you've created in the Map Editor and share them with other players.

NOTE: As at release, there is no "simple" way to share Map Packs. They are stored in a radarrally/packs folder. Here's how to access it to copy files in Windows:

1. Open Windows Exporer
2. In the address bar, type %AppData% and press enter
3. Navigate to the following folder:
   Picotron\exp\shared\drive\appdata\radarrally\packs
4. You can copy map packs (.rrmp files) to and from this folder

Create a Map Pack

Select the maps to include on the Level Editor selection screen. 

Create a Map Pack. You can opt to have the courses played in a random order as well as other settings.

Share a Map Pack

Copy .rrmp files into radarRally/packs folder and they'll appear on the Map Packs screen.

Background

Although I was vaguely familiar with Rally-X, and had played Radar Rat Race on the Commodore 64, it's only when Gentlemen's Pixel Club (GPC) suggested I create a game based on this (an obsession of theirs as you'll see if you visit the YouTube channel in the link) that I truly came to appreciate the game.

The algorithm is much, much simpler than Pac-Man which means the chasers follow very predictable behaviour. This makes this more a game of strategy. Something I never appreciated before coding this version.

Many ideas are taken from Rally-X, New Rally-X (Namco's concession to the original being a little too hard for most players) and other classic arcade games such as Crush Roller and Pac-Man. Other game modes such as Bomber and Timed were suggested by GC and are great additions.

Thanks

• A massive thanks to Gentlemen's Pixel Club for testing, course design, feedback , and much, much more
• Rebecca for non-gamer feedback which was invaluable (large player icon in the radar is my favourite)
• Lexaloffle for Picotron

Version History

• 0.80 - 08-Oct-2025 - Released
• 0.81 - 25-Dec-2025 - GPC Xmas 2025 map pack. Editor now included for free. Bug fixes