Software:GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur

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Short description: 1996 racing video game
GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur
GTI Club Rally cover.png
Cover art for the 2008 re-release
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
SeriesGTI Club
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: September 12, 1996[1]
  • WW: 1996
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemKonami Scorpion[2]

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a racing video game developed and published by Konami for the arcades in 1996. It is the first game in the GTI Club series. It was re-released for PlayStation Network in 2008.

Gameplay

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a game that gives players a choice of eight cars including the VW Golf GTI, Renault Le Car, and Mini Cooper, and the course winds through a European city.[3] It is a street racing game with non-linear maps, allowing players to take shortcuts through alternative routes such as tunnels and back alleys.[2]

Development and release

The first GTI Club game was released for the arcades in 1996 by Konami, on their new Cobra arcade board.[4] Three models were released: a deluxe single-player cabinet, a dual sitdown cabinet, and a single-player sitdown cabinet.[5] In the U.S., the deluxe model was released only in very limited numbers.[6]

Reception

The game was a hit in arcades.[2] In Japan, Game Machine listed GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur on their February 1, 1997 issue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.[7]

Next Generation gave it four stars out of five and called it a "sufficiently immersive" one-player game.[3] Hyper magazine also rated it 4 out of 5 stars.[8]

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ "KONAMI/Press Release". 1997-01-07. http://www.konami.co.jp/press/r0910GTI.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Konami: Sssmokin'!". Next Generation (27 (March 1997)): 26. 11 February 1997. https://retrocdn.net/images/8/8a/NextGeneration_US_27.pdf#page=28. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Finals". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (36): 178. December 1997. 
  4. ↑ "JAMMA '96: Konami and Capcom Gain Ground". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (24): 20. December 1996. 
  5. ↑ Webb, Marcus (March 1997). "Konami: Sssmokin'!". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (27): 26. 
  6. ↑ Webb, Marcus (June 1997). "Konami America Blows Away the Bad Guys". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (30): 28. https://archive.org/stream/NextGeneration30Jun1997/Next_Generation_30_Jun_1997#page/n29. 
  7. ↑ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - 完成品夕イプのTVゲーム機 (Dedicated Videos)". Game Machine (Amusement Press, Inc.) (534): 25. 1 February 1997. 
  8. ↑ "Arcade". Hyper (41): 20–1. March 1997. https://archive.org/details/hyper-041/page/n19/mode/2up. 
  9. ↑ https://archive.org/details/Console_Plus_Numero_063/page/n143/mode/2up
  10. ↑ https://archive.org/details/Playmania_128/page/n49/mode/2up
  11. ↑ https://archive.org/details/playerone-magazine-072/page/n35/mode/2up



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