#Vallco professional drag racing game drivers

Priced at $8.95 when originally released, the price rose as high as $16.95 before it went out of production in 1980. Some professional racers, including Bob Glidden, Al Hanna, and 'Dandy Dick' Landy (who purchased six copies), also played. Ī 1976 piece by Woody Hatten in Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine (based on the experience of a group who played the game on a regular basis, of which Hatten was a member) garnered national attention. Later editions added Pro Comp, for one year only the statistics cards for Pro Comp are now hard to find. īy 1977, Zyla had added Top Fuel Funny Car (including East Coast match racers like Tim Kushi) and Dragster drivers. Zyla's first advertisement was in National Dragster in 1975. The game accounted for changing track conditions and oildowns, as well as the latest NHRA rules.

There were also anonymous cards, for players who wanted to race, themselves.

#Vallco professional drag racing game drivers

When it reached the market in 1975, the game offered only Pro Stock drivers (31 in all), relying on their 1974 season's statistics. Only Don 'The Snake' Prudhomme's lawyer sought a licensing fee when Zyla revealed he was a mere 'mom and pop' operator, Prudhomme wished him luck. NHRA required Zyla to get signed releases from every driver involved. Burnouts were governed by die rolls, also. Zyla's prototype game used statistics for 'Dyno Don' Nicholson, Ronnie Sox, Gas Ronda, Hayden Proffitt, Dick Brannan, Dave Strickler, and some other Pro Stock and A/FX (pre- Funny Car) racers. It combined cards (containing driver statistics, including averaged e.t.s, wins, losses, holeshot wins and losses, and breakage rates) with die rolls (four per race). The game was inspired in part by Strat-O-Matic baseball and LeMans racing board games.