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Grand Prix Circuit

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Name: Grand Prix Circuit
Year: 1988
Publisher: Accolade
Developer: Distinctive Software
Platform: PC
Genre: Racing
Total rating: 82.7% - rated 23 times
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Submitter: Res
Added: May 23 2004
Warez status: Abandonware



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Author: Res
Date: Jun 05 2004 - 21:09
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This was my first PC game! fantastic memories come back to life ;-). Well this game was already six years old but in that time most games still look like toilet paper, I mean acceptable but not for a long long time. Grand Prix Circuit is another racing game, it doesn't have SoundBlaster support but what do you want this game is already 15 years old, so this is really something to call a classic game. Grand Prix Circuit supports 16 color CGA/EGA and Hercules, very modern for its age. In the end I have to say that this game looks pretty good for 1988.

The idea behind this game is like the name already says, another Grand Prix simulator, and that's true, official Formula 1 tracks are available for racing, I always prefer the track in Germany, Hockenheim. Every track has another background, this was very original in 1988 so I won't complain about it. Another important thing is the gameplay, well I think it's good, the music sounds pretty good for beeper sounds so that's also good.

I think Accolade did a great job when they developed this game, I played it for many hours, this was also because I only had one game but when you don't look at that point I'm sure that this game is also great when you played many other racing games before, like Lotus, Stunts, Test Drive, etc.

Before you start your race you can choose between three Formula one cars, I always took the Ferrari but when you look at the screens you can see that I also used other cars when I took the screenshots, that's only to give you a better impression what this game is about and looks like.

When you like old racing games this is really a great racing game but when you think games like Test Drive 4 or Need For Speed 2 look ugly then I want to confess you NOT to download this game unless it's a great game for 1988.


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By Pandy357 - May 13 2010 - 21:18
Finally i found this game!!! I couldn't remember the exact name of it but i knew that one day i'll find and enjoy it again  :D
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By RacerzGTR - Oct 03 2008 - 07:23
lol b4 i forget i used to play this with my siblings and challenged them in winning
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By RacerzGTR - Oct 03 2008 - 07:19
i remembered the car sounded lik ur making bubles with water at the back of ur troat! GRRREEE!!!!
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By Blugodzia - Sep 06 2008 - 16:37
Wow. I used to play this game in CGA mode on my 286. -tongue- Those were good days.
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By Vidocq - Aug 22 2008 - 18:40
This brings back a lot of memory's... used to have this game on our old 286, but played it a little too much and broke my floppy  :(

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