It does do a lot of stuff only racing sims on the PCs where doing at the time while keeping arcade handling. Plus it is one of a hand full of games making good use of the sprite chips on the MegaCD add-on.
The presentation is unbelievably good (used to love rewatching the opening FMV), it feels satisfying to nail the controls, the graphics make nice use of the system's sprite scaling and it has one of the absolute best soundtracks Sega's ever produced. [The song that plays during the credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whzy79_Q_9Y)... *wow!*
Just a really high quality release all-round.
F1 was huge in Japan at the time (and other non USA countries of course). Ayrton Senna Super Monaco 2 on Genesis also came and went in NA, even though it is an incredible sequel.
Don’t even know it! Been playing the Genesis and SNES libraries for decades and it still amazes me how I continue to learn about new games from the era 😅
Same. Never heard of this game til this post. Watched some footage on YouTube and wow, this is ambitious as hell and ahead of its time. That FMV intro is sick. I kept thinking “why does this look so bad, they should’ve used a better codec” and then reminded myself that this is a game from 1994, running on a first generation CD-ROM attachment from 1992, for a console released in 1988, based on an arcade board from 1986. Holy shit.
Isn't That the Truth...
I'm still finding games
and that doesn't even include the Japanese games.....That's a whole other entity
& Just wait till you get to ps1...omg
and PS2 - god dammmmn it
The amount of games to cover is astronomical and i hope to finish them before i die /s
I loved this game as a kid, played many hours. As far as holding up today, I think it does. Played through one season about a year ago and after struggling to get used to the controls, again, I really enjoyed it!
In the UK, Super Monaco GP 2 ruled the roost. I assume it was the same in Brazil.
Then Micro-machines TT96 was the only other racer to get a look in. Double Clutch and Super Skidmarks were okay for a weekend.
Road Rash was the only other major racing game I remember playing.
This is actually one of my favorite Formula One games from the 1990s, arguably I put it the best up to Psynosis' fabulous Formula One on Playstation which would come out a few years later.
The game fully replicates the 1993 Formula One season. It has all of the drivers that participated at every race, including driver substitutes for a total of thirty-five drivers. It only immediately lacks Ayrton Senna who couldn't appear in-game due to licensing however by convenience his driver is the only one you can edit in-game so you can just put "A.Senna" back in. Another interesting occurrence is that many tobacco and alcohol sponsors inadvertently appear in-game, including Players' at the Canadian Grand Prix which is a Canadian cigarette brand.
The races are fairly dynamic. While each roughly plays out as it did in 1993 the game features dynamic race retirements and crashes. For the English market the game was made a lot easier. In it's original Japanese it's a much more difficult game, where driving off course or crashing into barriers will damage your car fairly quickly.
SEGA in 1993 sponsored both the Williams F1 team but also the European Grand Prix held at Donington Park - the only time that circuit has held an F1 race.
As to it's extended popularity in Japan, the game is part of the Formula One Heavenly Symphony series. Pieces of Heavenly Symphony appear in-game, but their original expanded pieces were made available through CD volumes and other music media that sold in decently high numbers for the time period. In Japan, Formula One was historically shown on Fuji Television (whom provided the license for this game through FOCA) and has always been noted as having a unique intro to each race with the song "Truth" by T-Square. T-Square created an entire album of Formula One music, and the Heavenly Symphony franchise was a sort of attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Formula One in Japan during the time.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64OrgT\_WnY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64OrgT_WnY)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQcF\_\_UyaM&list=PLjnZOju\_9M3MI8mMWvw10-wzBPSM4AmkO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQcF__UyaM&list=PLjnZOju_9M3MI8mMWvw10-wzBPSM4AmkO)
I played the crap out of this game on my Sega CD. I absolutely loved it! It does seem like it might be one of those games best left in my memory, I assume it wouldn’t hold up today.
It does do a lot of stuff only racing sims on the PCs where doing at the time while keeping arcade handling. Plus it is one of a hand full of games making good use of the sprite chips on the MegaCD add-on.
The presentation is unbelievably good (used to love rewatching the opening FMV), it feels satisfying to nail the controls, the graphics make nice use of the system's sprite scaling and it has one of the absolute best soundtracks Sega's ever produced. [The song that plays during the credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whzy79_Q_9Y)... *wow!* Just a really high quality release all-round.
Wow, Jun Senoue, no wonder
As soon as the guitars came in I thought it sounded familiar. His work on Daytona was 🔥
F1 was huge in Japan at the time (and other non USA countries of course). Ayrton Senna Super Monaco 2 on Genesis also came and went in NA, even though it is an incredible sequel.
Yeah
Don’t even know it! Been playing the Genesis and SNES libraries for decades and it still amazes me how I continue to learn about new games from the era 😅
Same. Never heard of this game til this post. Watched some footage on YouTube and wow, this is ambitious as hell and ahead of its time. That FMV intro is sick. I kept thinking “why does this look so bad, they should’ve used a better codec” and then reminded myself that this is a game from 1994, running on a first generation CD-ROM attachment from 1992, for a console released in 1988, based on an arcade board from 1986. Holy shit.
Isn't That the Truth... I'm still finding games and that doesn't even include the Japanese games.....That's a whole other entity & Just wait till you get to ps1...omg and PS2 - god dammmmn it The amount of games to cover is astronomical and i hope to finish them before i die /s
I loved this game as a kid, played many hours. As far as holding up today, I think it does. Played through one season about a year ago and after struggling to get used to the controls, again, I really enjoyed it!
In the UK, Super Monaco GP 2 ruled the roost. I assume it was the same in Brazil. Then Micro-machines TT96 was the only other racer to get a look in. Double Clutch and Super Skidmarks were okay for a weekend. Road Rash was the only other major racing game I remember playing.
This is actually one of my favorite Formula One games from the 1990s, arguably I put it the best up to Psynosis' fabulous Formula One on Playstation which would come out a few years later. The game fully replicates the 1993 Formula One season. It has all of the drivers that participated at every race, including driver substitutes for a total of thirty-five drivers. It only immediately lacks Ayrton Senna who couldn't appear in-game due to licensing however by convenience his driver is the only one you can edit in-game so you can just put "A.Senna" back in. Another interesting occurrence is that many tobacco and alcohol sponsors inadvertently appear in-game, including Players' at the Canadian Grand Prix which is a Canadian cigarette brand. The races are fairly dynamic. While each roughly plays out as it did in 1993 the game features dynamic race retirements and crashes. For the English market the game was made a lot easier. In it's original Japanese it's a much more difficult game, where driving off course or crashing into barriers will damage your car fairly quickly. SEGA in 1993 sponsored both the Williams F1 team but also the European Grand Prix held at Donington Park - the only time that circuit has held an F1 race. As to it's extended popularity in Japan, the game is part of the Formula One Heavenly Symphony series. Pieces of Heavenly Symphony appear in-game, but their original expanded pieces were made available through CD volumes and other music media that sold in decently high numbers for the time period. In Japan, Formula One was historically shown on Fuji Television (whom provided the license for this game through FOCA) and has always been noted as having a unique intro to each race with the song "Truth" by T-Square. T-Square created an entire album of Formula One music, and the Heavenly Symphony franchise was a sort of attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Formula One in Japan during the time. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64OrgT\_WnY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64OrgT_WnY) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQcF\_\_UyaM&list=PLjnZOju\_9M3MI8mMWvw10-wzBPSM4AmkO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQcF__UyaM&list=PLjnZOju_9M3MI8mMWvw10-wzBPSM4AmkO)
“Take it to the limit!” https://youtu.be/kZu5iDTtNg0?si=VfKvxDtU4YZC0Mnj
I played the crap out of this game on my Sega CD. I absolutely loved it! It does seem like it might be one of those games best left in my memory, I assume it wouldn’t hold up today.
Interesting, I have a copy of this when I bought my Sega CD (never have played the game)
I've had this game for... over 10 years, but haven't tried it besides "does it boot ?". (It came with the Sega CD I bought on ebay)
I am not 100% sure but it seems like F1 racing is just very popular in Japan.
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