Safari Rally is an interesting monochromatic race through an african jungle. Stark but detailed black and white graphics present a slowly scrolling landscape of suspiciously straight tree lined lanes, which you must navigate through to collect all the dots, all while avoiding running into various jungle creatures like snakes and lions, as well as suicidal drivers going the opposite way. Safari Rally is a simple game, with no powerups and no ostensible greater goal, but also a frustrating one. Your acceleration is erratic, your car's response time questionable, and the obstacles seem unfairly stacked, with many unavoidable collisions. Safari Rally was one of SNK's first games, but they thankfully recovered from the slow start of both this and Ozma Wars to later bring us the incredible and very long-lived Neo-Geo arcade hardware and respective games.
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