Death Race

aka: Death Race 98

Released

1976 on Arcade

Publishers

Exidy, Incorporated

Developers

Exidy, Incorporated

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 5 players

Genre: Racing / Driving
Perspective: Top-down
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay: Arcade
Interface: Direct control
Vehicular: Automobile
Narrative: Horror

Buy

eBay

Contribute: Add to Group
Ad Blurb
Alternate Title
Content Ratings
Correction
Critic Review
Platform
Promo image
Trivia
Screenshot
Video

Description

Death Race is a vehicular combat game that puts your car in an open space with gremlins. Your goal is to crash into the gremlins so you can brutally and cruelly kill them. Upon dying, they scream. In the spot where the gremlin once was, a cross-shaped gravestone will be left. This clutters the playing field, making it harder to move around. There are dotted lines on the sides, representing two narrow "safe" zones on the left and right sides of the screen for the gremlins, as your car will crash on contact with the dotted lines.

Credits (Arcade version)

Designed by	Howell Ivy

Trivia

Controversy

Death Race was one of the first controversial arcade video games. The "gremlins" in the game looked a lot like real people because of the primitive graphics of the game. It was judged violent by many medias. Thanks to this controversy, the result was that the game sold a lot more than expected.