Software:Grand Prix Unlimited
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| Developer(s) | Accolade |
| Publisher(s) | Accolade |
| Platform(s) | DOS |
| Release | April 1992[1] |
| Genre(s) | Sim racing |
Grand Prix Unlimited is a 1992 Formula One video game published by Accolade. The game was licensed by Road & Track magazine.
Gameplay
Grand Prix Unlimited is a game in which five car setups are featured - Williams-Renault, McLaren-Honda, Ferrari, Tyrrell and Benetton-Ford - with 21 Formula One circuit tracks.[2] The player can choose a practice session or a single race, or to compete in the World Championship.[3] The game includes named drivers and a course designer to customize races for the player.[2] The game also allow the player to modify the car's attributes, as well as the weather conditions on the track.[3] The game has five levels of difficulty.[2]
Reception
Wallace Poulter reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Road & Track Presents Grand Prix Unlimited is an extremely frustrating product. There is a gem of a design waiting to be discovered yet this excellent design work has been compromised by the implementation."[2]
Clayton Walnum for Compute! said that despite the game's bad sound effects, "Grand Prix Unlimited is a solid – albeit not groundbreaking – racing simulation."[3]
Reviews
- PC Games (Germany) - Sep, 1992
See also
- The Need for Speed, another Road & Track licensed game
References
- ↑ Zerkel, Jim (January 30, 1992). "VGA card puts the wow in comptuter games". p. 69. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104107902/southtown-star/. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Poulter, Wallace (October 1992). "Car on a Hot Tarmac: Accolade's Road & Track Presents Grand Prix Unlimited". Computer Gaming World 1 (99): 52.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Compute! Magazine Issue 147". December 19, 1992. http://archive.org/details/1992-12-compute-magazine/page/n171/mode/2up.
- ↑ "Kultboy.com - DIE Kult-Seite über die alten Spiele-Magazine und Retro-Games!". https://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=4545.
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