In 2016 Binary Star Software released a dual title cartridge called "Nox / Death Chase". The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois, received an original black cabinet as a donation. An original arcade version of Death Race is present in the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco. Legacy įunspot has a working arcade machine in an all-yellow cabinet. It was later the seventh highest-grossing arcade game of 1977, according to Play Meter magazine. In the United States, it was the eighth highest-grossing arcade game of 1976 according to RePlay magazine. By the end of 1977 the game no longer graced headlines. Many at Exidy attribute a large jump in sales for the company to this increase in national profile for Death Race, even though most of the coverage was negative.
įollowing this article, many news organizations through 19 reported on Death Race, including national newspapers like The New York Times. Concerned about the game's violent content and its potential effect on those playing it, she wrote a widely disseminated article which pointed out the game's content unfavorably. However, in July 1976 Associated Press reporter Wendy Walker reached out to Exidy based on her viewing of the game at a Seattle arcade. Controversy Įxidy only intended Death Race as an interim product until their subsequent game Car Polo (1977) was completed. The name "Death Race" was chosen as a reflection of the undead monsters depicted in the cabinet art and marketing, both devised by artist Michael Cooper-Hart. Though a number of sources have reported that the game was a licensed adaptation of the 1975 film Death Race 2000, Exidy has denied that this was the case. These 'gremlins' would wander the playspace until one of the players collided with them, at which point they would let out a 'screech' and leave behind a cross representing a tombstone. The enemy opponents were changed to animated figures which walked around the screen instead of vehicles. On the top and bottom of the screen, players could wrap around to the opposite side in a manner similar to Atari's Space Race (1973). He added curbs to the left and right of the screen that the enemies could hide behind, but players would be stalled if they attempted to cross over. Newly-arrived engineer Howell Ivy from Ramtek made several modifications to Destruction Derby in order to create this new product. Needing an interim product to introduce to distributors, they decided to modify the Destruction Derby game so that it would be saleable by their organization. However, the following year Chicago Coin entered financial difficulties which would eventually lead to the dissolution of the company, and as Exidy had sold exclusive manufacturing rights they could no longer profit from Destruction Derby. In 1975, Exidy licensed its game Destruction Derby to arcade game company Chicago Coin to manufacture. It was in an upright standard racing-style cabinet. A limited number had white sides with the artwork in black, instead of the reverse. The marquee and monitor bezel are colored. The cabinet is black-with-white graphics of a muscle car racing through a cemetery with a vulture in a tree looking on. This increases the challenge of the game as the screen clutters up and the player has to avoid the tombstones. As the player hits them, they scream or squeal and are replaced on-screen by tombstones. The object is to run down "gremlins" who are fleeing the vehicle. In the game, one or two players control an on-screen car with a steering wheel and an acceleration pedal.
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