About Death Rally
Death Rally is a 1996 top-down car-combat racing game by Remedy Entertainment, released by Apogee Software. You race for prize money, buy and upgrade cars and weapons, and fight rivals on the track. This is the shareware episode.
This page runs the original DOS files unmodified using js-dos, which runs DOSBox in your browser, under this site's removal policy: the game is taken down if the rightsholder asks.
Controls
- A / Z: accelerate / brake
- Left / Right: steer
- Shift: turbo
- Ctrl: machine gun
- Alt: drop mine
- Enter: choose
- Esc: menu
Keyboard and mouse work best. On-screen buttons appear for the keys the game needs on a touch screen.
Questions
Is Death Rally really free?
It is free to play here, with no account and no payment.
Do I need to download or install Death Rally?
No. It runs in your browser from one click on the Play button. There is nothing to download, and no files to find or pick.
What are the Death Rally controls?
Use A to accelerate and Z to brake, Left and Right to steer, Shift for turbo, Ctrl for the machine gun and Alt to drop a mine. Enter chooses in the menus and Esc opens the menu.
Does Death Rally save my progress?
The game has its own Save Game and Load Game menu entries. Saving through the Save button above the game was not confirmed for this game, so do not rely on it.
Credits and licence
Original game: Death Rally, 1996, by Remedy Entertainment. Published by Apogee Software.
Edition hosted: Shareware version 1.1 (first race tracks).
Licence: Apogee shareware licence for Death Rally (shareware episode). Shareware: individuals may share copies without charge and approved vendors may distribute it as provided; Apogee keeps the rights. Hosted here under Retro Hideout's availability-and-owner-removal policy, unmodified and free, and removed on the rightsholder's request.
The game files are unmodified copies of the original release, hosted under this site's removal policy: the rightsholder keeps all rights and can ask for the game to be removed. Run by js-dos (DOSBox in WebAssembly).
(c) 1996 Remedy Entertainment, under exclusive licence to Apogee Software, Ltd.. Attribution and rights information ↗ · Ask for a change or removal ↗
