Baja Buggies

Baja Buggies is an off-road race through the desert against 80 opponents Most of the racers are anonymous. The top three have names that play on those of real drivers, such as "A. J. Cactus" (similar to A.

J. Foyt). The game displays the player's current rank, and a radar shows relative position to the race leaders. The goal is to finish in the top six.

The game was originally designed and programmed by Dan Ugrin and sold as Night Rally by Arcade Plus. After the company folded, it was revamped and became the first release from Gamestar. Gamestar went on to publish a series of sports games for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64, several of which were programmed by Ugrin, before becoming a label of Activision.

Electronic Fun with Computers & Games favorably compared Baja Buggies to Sega's Turbo, but found the audio to be simplistic and disliked the lack of support for paddle controllers. Marc Benioff, reviewing the game for Antic, wrote "It has some similarities to Turbo by Sega, but is not a copy." Page 6 wrote, "What makes Baja Buggies special is the unique 3-D perspective as you drive toward the distant mountains. When you turn a corner, you really do turn–the mountains and sky scroll across and you feel as if you are really in the car."

The reviewer for The Book of Atari Software 1983 found the game became boring in long stretches without seeing another vehicle. They also didn't like the game immediately ending once the leading group crosses the finish line and would have preferred to finish the entire race.