The board is supposed to be 11″x17″, but I shrunk it to 8.5″x11″ for ease of storage and travel. Everything is in black & white, so you can at least save on those color cartridges. He has digitized all the components and made PDFs out of them. He maintains a website and buried among all the links (and there are A LOT OF LINKS) is one where you can Paypal him, and within 24 hours you’ll get a series of 3 e-mails. So, let’s take a look under the hood at the game.įirst off, I bought the game directly from the designer, Greg Zyla. Yet, thanks to the internet and an enthusiastic designer, Vallco Drag Racing Game’s still exists, and as I prove, is still being discovered. It’s a niche product, mostly sold through niche magazine ads, and there’s been no new content since 1980. He made enough to reach his goal of buying his own car to race.įor a lot of games, this would probably be the end of the line. Over the next five years, Zyla sold nearly 3,000 copies of his game (it cost $8.95-$11.95 depending on the year). He made a prototype of Vallco as early as 1963, but it didn’t make it to the market until 1975 (first advertised in the back of National Dragster Magazine). The short history version is that Greg Zyla, a big drag racing and Strat-O-Matic Baseball fan, wanted to make the Strat-O-Matic of the drag racing world. After reading up a little bit about it, I soon owned the game. I didn’t necessarily think I needed a drag racing board game in my life. I can only recall a few of the bigger names like John Force, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, and local (to me) legend Jeg Coughlin. It seemed incredible to me that people were able to figure out how to make a car go from 0-200+ miles per hour in under 5 seconds, and then manage to stop safely. On the weekends, there almost always was a drag racing competition on. Many mornings were filled with Australian Rules Football highlights, and early afternoons were filled watching Willie Mosconi and Minnesota Fats playing pool. Although, I did grow up in the era of ESPN where they pretty much showed any sport to fill the time. So, as I was scouring my various Facebook groups, I came across a question asking if anyone had ever done a drag racing game. As I get more wrapped up in the world of solo sports games, I’m finding out that if it has ever been played competitively, there’s probably a game trying to simulate it.
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