Rally-Xtra

"Rally-X" is a car-chase videogame released by Namco in 1980. Traversing a maze and collecting flags while dodging enemy cars, the player has the ability to lay down a smokescreen (at the cost of some fuel).

In the early '80s, despite being bastard hard, it was popular among my circle of childhood chums. We dug the concept, the frantic action, the nifty music and the option to literally leave the red cars in our dust. So much so that the game gave rise to a term. A "Rally-X" came to also mean farting near someone then making a quick getaway.

Of course, the equivalent modern terminology is "crop dusting". I reckon ours was better.