Sega Rally Championship

For the 2007 game also known as Sega Rally, see Sega Rally Revo.
Sega Rally Championship
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Sega AM3
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Kenji Sasaki[4]
Producer(s)Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Programmer(s)Sohei Yamamoto
Artist(s)Kenji Sasaki
Composer(s)Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Naofumi Hataya (Sega Saturn)
Platform(s)Arcade, Sega Saturn, Windows, N-Gage, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2[5]
Release
February 1995
  • Arcade
    Saturn
    • NA: November 15, 1995
    • JP: December 29, 1995
    • EU: January 24, 1996
    • JP: September 20, 1996 (Plus)
    • NA: 1998 (NetLink Edition)
    Windows
    • JP: January 31, 1997
    • NA: February 19, 1997[2]
    Game Boy Advance
    • JP: December 19, 2002
    • NA: March 11, 2003[3]
    • EU: May 2, 2003
    N-Gage
    PlayStation 2
    (as part of Sega Rally 2006)
    • JP: January 12, 2006
    • KOR: March 30, 2006
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemSega Model 2

Sega Rally Championship is a 1995 racing game developed and published by Sega.[6] Originally released for arcades using the Sega Model 2 board, ports were published for the Sega Saturn in 1995 and Microsoft Windows in 1997. The Sega Rally Championship simulates driving on different surfaces, with different friction properties, with the car's handling changing accordingly. As the first racing game to incorporate this feature, Sega Rally Championship is considered to be one of the milestones in the evolution of the racing game genre.[7] It was also an early rally racing game and featured cooperative gameplay alongside the usual competitive multiplayer.

The music for the arcade game was composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, while the Saturn version's soundtrack consisted of a combination of newly composed music by Naofumi Hataya and arrangements of the arcade originals arranged and produced by Takayuki Hijikata, previously released on the album Sega Rally Championship Ignition. The game spawned the Sega Rally series, in addition to inspiring Colin McRae Rally (1998) and Initial D Arcade Stage (2002).

  1. ^ Sega Arcade History. Famitsu DC (in Japanese). Enterbrain. 2002. p. 135.
  2. ^ "PC GAMERS BUCKLE UP AND BRACE THEMSELVES FOR THE ULTIMATE OFF-ROAD ARCADE RACING GAME". Sega Central. Sega of America. February 19, 1997. Archived from the original on February 2, 1998. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Sega Rally Skidding Onto Store Shelves - News". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  4. ^ "The Making Of: Sega Rally Championship 1995". Edge. 2009-10-02. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  5. ^ "Sega Rally Championship". 18 March 2023.
  6. ^ Sega Arcade Developers
  7. ^ Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2009, page 103.