Grand Prix Unlimited

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Grand Prix Unlimited
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Developer(s) Accolade
Publisher(s) Accolade
Platform(s) DOS
ReleaseApril 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.

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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]

See also

References

  1. Zerkel, Jim (January 30, 1992). "VGA card puts the wow in comptuter games". SouthtownStar . p. 69. Retrieved June 20, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Poulter, Wallace (October 1992). "Car on a Hot Tarmac: Accolade's Road & Track Presents Grand Prix Unlimited". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 99. p. 52.
  3. 1 2 3 "Compute! Magazine Issue 147". December 19, 1992 via Internet Archive.
  4. "Kultboy.com - DIE Kult-Seite über die alten Spiele-Magazine und Retro-Games!". www.kultboy.com.