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▲{{quote|''"Ummm... lets change seats... whaddyasay ?"''|'''your co-driver, after you've plunged your car into another crashfest'''}}

▲''Rally Trophy'' is a rally racing [[Simulation Game]], the commercial debut of Finnish [[Driving Game]] developer Bugbear Entertainment <ref>(better known these days for their [[Black Comedy]] demolition derby game series, ''Flat Out'')</ref>, first published by Jo Wood Productions in autumn 2001. The game was in development since the late 90s and became a surprise hit, with lots of critical acclaim by players and reviewers alike. It deviates from other existing rally games by being a [[George Lucas Throwback|retro-themed title, focusing on various classic rally cars from the 1960s and 1970s]]. It generally aims for a realistic simulation of these cars of yesteryear, which means they lack various fancy technical enhancements and upgrades of [[Present Day]] rally cars. Thanks to an advanced physics model, driving them actually feels like driving a vintage car, making the game fairly [[Nintendo Hard]], but enjoyable and challenging nonetheless. The retro atmosphere is also enhanced by grainy and traditional-looking menu screens, more regionally-themed and lesser known national championships, lots of [[Played for Laughs]] elements and some genuinely quality folk-rock-esque intrumental music, with a heavy dose of 60s guitar sound.

▲* [[Artifact Title]] : ''Rally Trophy'' [[So Okay It's Average|sounds a bit plain]], doesn't it ? Well, the game was originally (earlier in development) pitched as ''Historical Rally Trophy''.

▲* [[Game Mod]] : Racing games traditionally aren't overly modding-friendly (even the ones with huge fan communities), but RT had a surprisingly great amount of fan-made custom content. Some quality stuff was made back in the day - especially many additional cars, both old and new, and even entire new stages and countries (the Australian maps were among the best). If you already own the game, you can start looking for various mods and addons [http://www.nogripracing.com/files.php?maincat=1 here], [http://www.bhmotorsports.com/RT/downloads here] and [http://www.bhmotorsports.com/RT/mods here].

▲** ''[http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=671 TT Real Mod]'' is aimed at further enhancing the already high level of realistic driving physics from the vanilla game.

▲** Notable total conversions are the [[Present Day]] ''[http://www.nogripracing.com/files.php?subcat=16 WRC Mod]'' and the unofficial [[Fan Sequel]] ''[http://www.nogripracing.com/files.php?subcat=91 Rally Trophy II]''.

▲* [[George Lucas Throwback]] : The whole point and theme of the game.

▲* [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]] : [[Playing with a Trope|Played with.]] Of all 11 cars, 8 are RWD - and they vary a lot in terms of performance and the amount of skill needed for driving them. It's generally better to start with the more easily accessible <small>FWD</small>s (the [[Badass Normal|SAAB 96]], [[Fragile Speedster|Lancia Fulvia]] and [[Badass Adorable|Mini Cooper]]) and then gradually accustom yourself to the rear wheel drives. Some <small>RWD</small>s in the game can be literally sadistically hard to keep on the road along a straight line, with the [[Cool but Inefficient|Lancia]] [[Crazy Awesome|Stratos]] and the 60s version of the [[The Big Guy|Opel Kadett]] being the worst offenders - but it's all justified, since those cars ''[[Truth in Television|really were that hard to control]]''. Generally speaking, the most stable to drive RWD cars are probably the {{spoiler|Alfa Romeo Giullia and the Ford Cortina}}.