I loved this game when I was young! Played it for hours at my grandpas house along with all the other classics. Watching this brings back some memories
Reminds me a bit of Chequered Flag on the ZX Spectrum. My dad bought a ZX Spectrum 48K with Sinclair games Chess, Chequered Flag, Horace Goes Skiing, Scrabble (in a HUGE box!) and a couple of other games I can't remember, I think there was a game with animals & a circuit maker program. I didn't own a BBC Micro or Acorn (the school had a BBC Micro Model B), so thanks for uploading this video! :)
Are used to play this on my Commodore 64 with Analog paddles. Was way ahead of its time I spent hours perfecting my lap times. I had to wait for need for speed Porsche Edition so many years later before I came across such great gameplay.
i loved this game as a kid....i used to help Peter Out win races by pushing him around the track lol.....most of the times id end out killin him coz i hit him too hard
Acornsoft's Elite cycled Modes in game play. Lower Res Mode for the lower part of the screen with all the HUD stuff and a higher res Mode on the rest for the 3D modelling.
So did this, the names and times at the top of the screen are higher res than the bottom (compare with the gear number). I think it also used some of the screen memory for data, just redefining the palette to all blue so it wasn't visible.
Thank you, thank you for the memories! I played this so much I got RSI, before RSI was a thing!
What a great legacy Geoff Crammond's left.
What a great game, I loved this. This was the first game I played where you could spin the car and feel the difference of the wing settings. Magic
Great memories! Loved this game, I remember thinking how amazing it was!
I loved this game when I was young! Played it for hours at my grandpas house along with all the other classics. Watching this brings back some memories
Reminds me a bit of Chequered Flag on the ZX Spectrum. My dad bought a ZX Spectrum 48K with Sinclair games Chess, Chequered Flag, Horace Goes Skiing, Scrabble (in a HUGE box!) and a couple of other games I can't remember, I think there was a game with animals & a circuit maker program.
I didn't own a BBC Micro or Acorn (the school had a BBC Micro Model B), so thanks for uploading this video! :)
The wings really made quite a difference. Revs, Repton, Chucky Egg, Elite etc etc. 15 years old with full Cumana CD800s drives.
Are used to play this on my Commodore 64 with Analog paddles. Was way ahead of its time I spent hours perfecting my lap times. I had to wait for need for speed Porsche Edition so many years later before I came across such great gameplay.
Fuck, I remember playing this for hours.
Geoff Crammond... so great game you made.
Many a night was wasted playing this game :-)
The driver names were awesome too. Gloria Slap lol
Very advanced for it's time, as it's a Geoff Grammond game (GP4, Stunt car racer)
Such an advanced game for its time
I remember 1895. So many classic games, so little electricity and so few computers to play them on.
dude you must be like, 100s year old now
"Hugh Jengine". Haha. only took me 35 years before I noticed that!
"Hi! I'm Hugh Jengine and you are on REVS!"
I never got the hang of it, tried and tried for hours tho....
1.23.7 was my best time on this game!
I think I was the same , with a rear wing angle of 28 or 27 front wing 23 and you had to straight line the chicane at the end. Good times.
man i miss this
I found a Mac emulator of this a while back and lost a weekend! :-D
lol that i've come back to this video.. i just LOVE the noises this thing is making.. mmmm
Amazing how in 30 years we went from this to something like Forza 6 with real time lighting and tyre modelling physics!
Sweet! I love this game.
rear wing angle of 28 or 27 front wing 23 and you had to straight line the chicane at the end. Good times.
I managed to get round the first corner once without spinning off
The best thing about this game was the driver names.
johnny turbo ..... brilliant
This is super game!
Grand Prix father ?
wow nice game my school never had this
Many a frustrating lap gaining on the other cars only to royally f#*k it up on the chicane at the end.
Spent far to many hours playing this classic
I failed a lot of exams cos of this game and solid draw
I always ended up on the grass.
i loved this game as a kid....i used to help Peter Out win races by pushing him around the track lol.....most of the times id end out killin him coz i hit him too hard
Anyone know if this game employed double buffering (screen bank swapping)?
I think some games did use double buffering / screen bank switching, such as Predator and possibly Barbarian I/II.
Acornsoft's Elite cycled Modes in game play. Lower Res Mode for the lower part of the screen with all the HUD stuff and a higher res Mode on the rest for the 3D modelling.
So did this, the names and times at the top of the screen are higher res than the bottom (compare with the gear number). I think it also used some of the screen memory for data, just redefining the palette to all blue so it wasn't visible.
Bloody catch fence :)
LOL. 1895. yeah those sure were the days..
Hehe, "Hugh Jengine"...
@telemetry9 Think again :)
rofl
You're clearly confused.