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Seta's new super DSP chip separates the men from the boys in this high speed Formula One racing tour. Drive real cars, like the FW14B Williams, McLaren's MP4/7, the F92 Ferrari, the V8 Ford-powered Benettion B192, and other Formula One racing machines. You'll start out in a prototype Group C car and must win on all 8 tracks to move up. Next you race in F3000 cars to develop the lightning-fast reflexes needed to survive Formula One racing. Finally, you face the real 1992 Formula One season drivers and their cars. On the 16 international courses, it's a duel of nerves, skill, grit and nitro. This game blows the competition away.
A new standard in racing simulation is born and F1-ROC II is it.
Dirty Racing is a top-down racing game, developed by Gremlin Interactive and published by Jaleco Entertainment, which was released exclusively in Japan in 1993.
After a race, you are awarded money based on what place you qualified in, which can be used to purchase nitrous, upgrade, or repair your car in a manner similar to Tradewest's Super Off Road. You then move around a board game-like map to choose your next race.
Despite the game being Japanese exclusive, the entire game's text is in English. The game also shares another similarity with Super Off Road, that being scantily clad women who are shown when a race is finished.
Licensed by the classic British car company, this game featured 2 modes of play - one has you racing against 19 computer rivals (with witty names such as Alain Phosphate and Crash-Hard Banger), and the other pits you against the clock.
There are 13 different types of races, ranging from Motorways to night-time to sections punctuated by roadworks, and some are lap-based with others being simple A-B. 2 players could play on a split screen mode.
The game's crowning glory, however, was the RECS editor, which allowed you to create courses of your own, with theoretically millions possible.
Masked Riders Club: Battle Race is a top-down action racing game based on the Kamen Rider television franchise. The game consists of nine vertically-scrolling levels that need to be completed before time runs out, with themes such as an industrial environment, a beach, a snowy environment etc., each with its own enemies. At the start the player chooses one of ten superhero Kamen Riders (Rider 1, Rider 2, Rider V3, Riderman, Rider X, Amazon, Stronger, Super1, Rider 2X or Black RX). The riders are grasshopper-themed altered humans and each come with his own motorcycle rated in three different statistics as well as a unique weapon such as a blade, a hook, a short burst of fire, or a pole.
The single-player game is only played on the left side of the screen. The middle part shows progress through the level map and the right map the global map of the nine levels. The rider moves forward automatically at a constant speed. The game is fast-paced and the rider needs to dodge obstacles that slow him down, while using a c
Slicks 'n Slide is a top-down racer originally released as shareware for DOS. Full version features a track editor. You can race cars, motorbikes, UFOs and slide on oil slicks. Slicks (as it was commonly known) was a huge hit in Finland where it was made.
Formula 1 Sensation is an arcade-style racing game for the NES. Race against up to eleven other rivals in either a single race or the grand prix! Each race unfolds at blistering speeds on tracks influenced by the 1992 Formula One season. Players have access to a wide assortment of customizations to optimize their vehicles.
Nakajima Satoru Kanshuu F1 Super License is a 1992 racing game by Varie for the Sega Mega Drive and the third Mega Drive game in their Nakajima Satoru Kanshuu games, following F1 Hero MD.
This game is a 2D racer, like F1 Grand Prix and unlike F1 Hero MD. B accelerates. This game adds a save system, allowing you to save your progress over the course of the prix.
Fun Car Rally was an unreleased prototype likely developed by MagiCom (later FunCom) in 1992. It would eventually be sold to Accolade and become the basis for Combat Cars. BKK on Sega-16 reveals that MCOM in the game's ROM is likely to be MagiCom because they were developing Mega Drive games around the ROM's date, and one person who worked with them later founded Funcom, who held the rights to Combat Cars before Accolade. The title music appears to have been taken from The Beach Boys' Fun Fun Fun. The reasons for the title and music changes are unknown.
Similar to Chase H.Q. in this sequel you drive on a freeway trying to catch up with five criminals who have committed felonies, with time against you.
You can choose one of three vehicles to drive: a sports car, 4-wheel drive, and a semi truck. Each one of them having their advantages and disadvantages.
This sequel to Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge is again a behind-the-car viewed racing game. It takes place in eight distinct circuits, adding surface and weather effects such as desert and snow. Later in the game, you must race through two-way motorways with oncoming traffic, (incorporating civilian cars and trucks), and face tough levels aided by speed and time boost pick-ups.
The third game in the series combined the gameplay aspects of its predecessors, allowing players to choose between racing opponents of Lotus Turbo Challenge or the arcade-like time trials of Lotus 2. The two-player option was retained and the music selection feature returns (Patrick Phelan's soundtrack to Lotus III spawned many modern remixes). Lotus III also added a third car - a concept Lotus M200 automobile - and allowed the player to choose which one to race with. The game recycled most of the graphics from Lotus 2, but added a number of new sceneries.