The game includes options for changing how vehicles handle, such as top speed, acceleration, and whether roads are wet, dry, or icy.

Rally Speedway shows a birds-eye view of a small section of a larger race track that scrolls.

[4] He compressed the graphics to make them fit on a 16K cartridge: I had a conversation over beers one night with Sparky Starks, another Adventure International author.

[4]Lee Pappas of ANALOG Computing wrote in January 1984 that Rally Speedway "is one of the nicest designed and executed games for the [Atari 8-bit]".

[5] A 1984 review in Hi-Res magazine called Rally Speedway "graphically gorgeous" but criticized the top-down perspective for being less exciting than a behind-the-car view.