Maze Death Race is a Rally-X variant The player controls a car and has to drive around a maze and collect a certain number of flags to complete a level At the same time other cars chase the player's car and attempt to hit it
The number of cars are user defined in the ZX81 version and pre-defined in the ZX Spectrum version In addition to chaser cars there are various traps on the roads that the player has to avoid hitting such as rocks, oil and ice Unlike the original arcade game, in this version the player cannot use a smokescreen to confuse the chasers Both versions allow the player to choose the speed of the AI cars In the ZX81 version, it is also possible to choose if the car should have momentum while in the Spectrum version this is always the case
