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[alexau]

GRID. That is my favourite as well 

Edited by Buttoneer, 14 June 2016 - 21:47.

[Atreiu]

Rock and roll racing.

 

Off topic, what PS4 games are you guys playing currently? Is there anyone which is fun and does not require long tedious hours of running horrible cars before we can unlock faster cars and races?

[The Kanisteri]

PS4 games currently...

 

While waiting Assetto Corsa, there's Dirt Rally. Project Cars and the most awesome of all...Table Top Racing: World Tour. 

Edited by The Kanisteri, 20 June 2016 - 07:55.

[messy]

Rock and roll racing.
 
Off topic, what PS4 games are you guys playing currently? Is there anyone which is fun and does not require long tedious hours of running horrible cars before we can unlock faster cars and races?

To be honest, I'd recommend Forza 6 - shame it's not PS4. I eventually bit the bullet and got an Xbox One just for it - and haven't regretted it for one second.

[goingthedistance]

Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix by Martech (1988). Played it on my first PC, an AMSTRAD CPC 464. I was very young and didn't even know what this F1 thing was. Those were the days. 

 

[sidewinder26]

My first game was Michael Andretti's World GP, back in 90. I was 6. It was great because I had two uncles and my father to race against, and they were fast. It became quite a family event seeing us race.  

Edited by sidewinder26, 20 August 2016 - 13:55.

[richardnunney]

Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix by Martech (1988). Played it on my first PC, an AMSTRAD CPC 464. I was very young and didn't even know what this F1 thing was. Those were the days. 

 

 

What a game this was!  Used to love this on the Spectrum.  Upgraded to Indycar racing when on PC and then discovered Geoff Crammond's GP2.  

No game since has got as close to enjoyment as any of those other 3.

[balage06]

[Hati]

I wondered this for a long time, was it something with VIC20 or with C64 and what but a message while a back reminded me that it probably was this:

https://boardgamegee...la-1-vauhtipeli

 

It's still at my parents place and yesterday I remembered to check what it was called so I could find that link. If I remember correctly we had little problems at interpreting the rules and we didn't play it much anyway because computer gaming was more fun.

[vrroomcd]

First racing game I played was revs on the bbc

[JamesC64]

I laugh when i think about it but every game that came out i used to be in wonder of the "photo realistic" graphics. My Dad looked at me gone out, now i know why hahahaha.

[Paste]

I started with Pole Position on the Vic20.

Graduated to Michael Andretti's World Grand Prix on NES

Later picked up Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge on NES

First CPU sim was Road and Track Presents Grand Prix Unlimited. Holy hell did that game have some bad bugs. I can remember the Portugal circuit having one spot where there was like a 70% change that you'd crash out of nowhere on any given lap..

[Peter Perfect]

First got hooked on Revs on the BBC Model B

 

[Nemo1965]

I started with GP2 made by Geoff Cramond and have returned to Geoff Cramond's last GP game, GP4... and with a vengeance. Thanks to modders and their editors like CSM you can now play any season you want. For example thanks to the log-system of GPX Data (with which you can export the laptimes of both yourself and the AI-driver to an Excel-file) I am able to tweak the tyre-use in such a way it resembles the 2019 use...

 

Currently I am building a quick sim of the French Grand Prix, in which the drivers starting on softs lose time after 10 laps or so, making more pitstops a more viable strategy than a 1- or a non-stop strategy. 

 

There's not one game on the market which enables you to build an own sim like that...

 

Here I am just exiting the pits at Ricard:

 

https://youtu.be/ZAikhUO_bFs

Edited by Nemo1965, 21 June 2019 - 07:10.

[BuddyHolly]

Not counting arcade games like Night Driver (late 70's I think) I believe the first racing game I owned was Chequered Flag on the ZX Spectrum.

 

There was also a superb F1 Manager game on the Speccy too, I must have put 100's of hours into it and still play it on and off to this day

 

From there I went to playing Revs on the BBC Model B and then Revs+ on the C64, along with Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade.  Then I upgraded to 16bit and an Amiga and later on Microprose(my top software developer ever) released F1GP and I played it so much I must have way over 1000 hours on it.

 

From then onto PC and Grand Prix 2,3,4 and the amazing Grand Prix Legends

 

Then nothing for quite a while, maybe one or two F1 games on playstation but they never grabbed me like Geoff Crammonds F1 series did.

 

I've been playing the codemasters games since F1 2010 and although they are okay and look great, they still lack features Crammond put into his F1 games over 20 years ago and with codies now putting out like nine games in a row they still don't have features that I loved in the Grand Prix series and I've now come to the conclusion they never will.

 

Last F1 racing game I played was F1 2018, I finished a 100% race distance career months ago and was so cheesed off at the end (no ending, no tally of titles/wins/etc, no retirement screen, no congrats.. nothing, just went straight to the main menu once you finished the last race of the 10th season.  what an oversight!)

 

I did buy Assetto Corsa on PS4 but deleted it as I simply could not play it with the controller, it needs a wheel and the only wheel I own, Sony decided not to support in the PS4.

I have toyed with buying GT Sport but I dislike the online only part and I'm no fan of GT's still "chase the rabbit" formula with only rolling starts in career mode.

 

For me, Grand Prix 4 remains the best racing game I've played, sadly I never did get it to run on Win 7.

[Aaaarrgghh]

Formula 1 from Psygnosis, containing all the drivers and teams from the 1995 season. I was gobsmacked as a kid when I realised there were more than two drivers per team!

[404KF2]

Strombecker slot cars, 1963.

[LucaP]

 

 

Very good game

[PayasYouRace]

 

Very good game

Very good indeed, and slightly forgotten I feel. I got many hours of enjoyment out of it. Some rather lovely fantasy tracks too.

[Hati]

Some rather lovely fantasy tracks too.

Damn, was it a fantasy track that I liked so much in that. That explains why I haven't seen it anywhere else.

 

[edit] No, memories are faint but it has to be Road Atlanta, which is a real track.

Edited by Hati, 13 September 2020 - 17:55.

[LucaP]

Damn, was it a fantasy track that I liked so much in that. That explains why I haven't seen it anywhere else.

[edit] No, memories are faint but it has to be Road Atlanta, which is a real track.

The fantasy tracks were:
Chatham, an oval corner with a big descent afterwards, a couple of fast esse and back on the oval section

see here https://www.youtube....nel=StockPiston

Sardian Park, which had a semipermanent first section (with a 90° right left right chicane) then uphill for a very twisty section, a jump before an esses..last corner was a flat out right
https://www.youtube....nnel=marcsans86

North Point: a very twisty track near a lake, with a wicked turn 1 (track became considerably narrow on a single-line quick esses)

https://www.youtube....=MidnightRunner

Edited by LucaP, 13 September 2020 - 19:25.

[jimjimjeroo]

Grand Prix 2 for PC

Geoff Crammond

[PayasYouRace]

The fantasy tracks were:
Chatham, an oval corner with a big descent afterwards, a couple of fast esse and back on the oval section

see here https://www.youtube....nel=StockPiston

Sardian Park, which had a semipermanent first section (with a 90° right left right chicane) then uphill for a very twisty section, a jump before an esses..last corner was a flat out right
https://www.youtube....nnel=marcsans86

North Point: a very twisty track near a lake, with a wicked turn 1 (track became considerably narrow on a single-line quick esses)

https://www.youtube....=MidnightRunner

 

Those are the ones. I always felt North Point should have a longer variant which is hinted at off the the left before the final corner. Chatham was my favourite, with its weird roval aspect.

[LucaP]

Those are the ones. I always felt North Point should have a longer variant which is hinted at off the the left before the final corner. Chatham was my favourite, with its weird roval aspect.

 

I remember these tracks so well 

Someone converted North Point to GTR2, and actually added that longer section you could see in SCGT.

It was cool to drive because of all the hills, but disappointing to race at as it added no passing zone (the only thing the track needed) 

[Blackjack1967]

 

 

Yes, it was a board game. 

I played a lot in middle 80s with my brother and friends

 

 

But because you asked for computer games...

 

Hyper Rally, Konami (1986)

 

 

And F1 Simulator from Mastertronic, 1987 i believe...

 

 

 

 

In 1992 G.Crammond and D.Kaemer changed everything with GP1 and Indy 500, but this is another history

Edited by Blackjack1967, 15 September 2020 - 14:11.

[Nobody]

Not counting arcade games like Night Driver (late 70's I think) I believe the first racing game I owned was Chequered Flag on the ZX Spectrum.

 

There was also a superb F1 Manager game on the Speccy too, I must have put 100's of hours into it and still play it on and off to this day

 

From there I went to playing Revs on the BBC Model B and then Revs+ on the C64, along with Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade.  Then I upgraded to 16bit and an Amiga and later on Microprose(my top software developer ever) released F1GP and I played it so much I must have way over 1000 hours on it.

 

From then onto PC and Grand Prix 2,3,4 and the amazing Grand Prix Legends

 

Then nothing for quite a while, maybe one or two F1 games on playstation but they never grabbed me like Geoff Crammonds F1 series did.

 

I've been playing the codemasters games since F1 2010 and although they are okay and look great, they still lack features Crammond put into his F1 games over 20 years ago and with codies now putting out like nine games in a row they still don't have features that I loved in the Grand Prix series and I've now come to the conclusion they never will.

 

Last F1 racing game I played was F1 2018, I finished a 100% race distance career months ago and was so cheesed off at the end (no ending, no tally of titles/wins/etc, no retirement screen, no congrats.. nothing, just went straight to the main menu once you finished the last race of the 10th season.  what an oversight!)

 

I did buy Assetto Corsa on PS4 but deleted it as I simply could not play it with the controller, it needs a wheel and the only wheel I own, Sony decided not to support in the PS4.

I have toyed with buying GT Sport but I dislike the online only part and I'm no fan of GT's still "chase the rabbit" formula with only rolling starts in career mode.

 

For me, Grand Prix 4 remains the best racing game I've played, sadly I never did get it to run on Win 7.

 

Those two Speccy games and the Geoff Crammond series were my gateway as well - GP4 what a game!

[Beri]

Damn, was it a fantasy track that I liked so much in that. That explains why I haven't seen it anywhere else.

[edit] No, memories are faint but it has to be Road Atlanta, which is a real track.

I loved that game. Actually I just downloaded it after reading you guys about it. Will start playing it tomorrow again 😉
I think together with Chatham and Road Atlanta, Sebring was the best track in my book in SCGT.
Weirdly I found out, many many many years later, that the track called Desert Speedway actually is real. It is the infield track of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

[MasterOfCoin]

The original Trackmania was mine.......

[LucaP]

I loved that game. Actually I just downloaded it after reading you guys about it. Will start playing it tomorrow again
I think together with Chatham and Road Atlanta, Sebring was the best track in my book in SCGT.
Weirdly I found out, many many many years later, that the track called Desert Speedway actually is real. It is the infield track of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

 

Great, let us know how you find it after all these years

[Beri]

Great, let us know how you find it after all these years

 

It is surprisingly still very good. It is, ofcourse, by no means a simulation game by modern standards. But for a game out of 1999 it must have been epic. Something that passed by me completely.

The aged graphics do not disturb me at all and it only takes about one race to completely immerse yourself in the game again. It is a fun game to play and the gameplay is as simple as it can get. I did a couple of races and had forgotten that you will have to unlock the cars and tracks. Which in turn is a fun element. It beats having to buy addons.

[PayasYouRace]

Keep in mind that the development team that made Sports Car GT went on to make rFactor.

[Beri]

I didnt know that. Doesnt surprise me that people responsible for a good game like SCGT, would eventually develop another good game like rFactor.

[Myrvold]

I didnt know that. Doesnt surprise me that people responsible for a good game like SCGT, would eventually develop another good game like rFactor.

 

Now that you know - you can see certain elements they have kept. Like the line at the bottom of the screen which shows where the cars are on the track.
This can also be found in the F1 games they made for EA. I think this is the most recognizable ISI-thing in their racing games.

[Beri]

Well Ill be damned.. Now that you mention it, it is something that I will never cease to think of anymore 

[Myrvold]

Well Ill be damned.. Now that you mention it, it is something that I will never cease to think of anymore 

 

 

No problem, happy to help   haha

[TennisUK]

Fast Lane on Atari ST, where you could race a Spice Cosworth in the 1989 WSPC.

[LodgeCorner]

 

 

Yes, it was a board game. 

I played a lot in middle 80s with my brother and friends

 

 

But because you asked for computer games...

 

Hyper Rally, Konami (1986)

 

 

And F1 Simulator from Mastertronic, 1987 i believe...

 

 

 

 

In 1992 G.Crammond and D.Kaemer changed everything with GP1 and Indy 500, but this is another history

 

Speed Circuit was a great game. My work colleagues and I ran a number of 'championships' over several years racing at lunchtimes. We also had a number of additional circuits that we drew up to represent many of the then GP circuits.

[SpeedRacer`]

Funny to hear Lewis mention both GP2 and GP3 in seperate interviews!

 

I'm sure he used to play GP2 as before he always mentioned playing a game where you started at Brazil.

[Nobody]

2020 season mod for the Speccy owners XD

http://planetasincla...e-2020-mod.html

[nmansellfan]

2020 season mod for the Speccy owners XD

http://planetasincla...e-2020-mod.html

 

Nice!  This and Formula One by Mastertronic (Which I think was a re-release of Chequered Flag on the Spectrum) were my first racing games on the Spectrum +2, Christmas 1986.  IIRC in the instructions for Formula One / Chequered Flag it was suggested that you could use a 'steering wheel' by selecting the right option, placing a roll of sticky tape on the keyboard and pressing the left or right side of the roll to turn   Interestingly I also plated Formula one on the C64 and it was a totally different game, the car being viewed from behind instead of the drivers perspective, but weirdly like some other games, there was also still a steering wheel / dashboard on screen as well.

 

I played a couple of arcade racing games prior to getting the Speccy, mainly Outrun and Pole Position.  I was totally deflated once I got the Spectrum version of Outun...

Edited by nmansellfan, 26 October 2020 - 13:13.

[FirstnameLastname]

‘Formula One Grand Prix’ on the Amiga.... and then all the Geoff Crammond F1 games. GP2 GP3 and GP4 were all superb, and then got quite involved with the modding community. At one point I knew my way around the files for that game so well, yet now - years later, I wouldn’t have a clue what I was doing. There was some great fan made liveries and mods to keep the game up to date. Good times.

The codies games out now would have been a wet dream to the teenage me, I wish I had the time to invest but I haven’t actually bought the newest two games. The 2020 one looks superb with the team management element.... but kids take up any spare time I have now!

I saw a VR F1 race with 1990s cars and it looked absolutely stunning. Maybe one day!

[cjm321190]

Speed Circuit was a great game. My work colleagues and I ran a number of 'championships' over several years racing at lunchtimes. We also had a number of additional circuits that we drew up to represent many of the then GP circuits.

Haha my wife found my drawn up circuits in a box. There is now know doubt in her mind she married a nerd. A hidden addiction. 🤣

[Fat Boy]

I don't really know. Which came first, Pole Position or the Atari 2600 Indy 500?

[Hati]

Not even close, Indy 500 1977 and Pole Position 1982.