Mattel’s Intellivision was one of the earliest home consoles. When it started making a loss, Mattel’s senior Vice President of Marketing bought the rights to the Intellivision name and formed INTV Corp. Monster Truck Rally, then, was essentially a game produced for a rival system. It’s a spiritual successor to Stadium Mud Buggies – a 1989 Intellivision racing game that shared the same isometric viewpoint – and consists of eight events (including Hill Climb, Drag Race, Car Crush and Sled Pull) as well as a Monster Truck Rally mode where you take on all eight in a row. There’s also a track builder mode where a player can create their own courses or even generate a random one (procedurally generated tracks were a rare feature in racing games).
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