Your ability to drive this (obviously hard) game + track combo while talking about technicalities of the game is super impressive. You even knew about the detail on the McLaren and the right year for Hill's championship. Subbed.
Definitely seen gameplay footage of this game before. This is one of the games that is making me consider the Saturn especially with the familiar Sega arcade feel of the bold colors and electronic music. Great Sega Sunday video :)
@@HouseOfFunQM I honestly don’t think they made many copies! I saw it once or twice in shops at the time, but I wanted Daytona, NiGHTS, Worldwide Soccer etc before it, so it got missed out. It just wasn’t a big thing at the time, of course now the Sega racing DNA is mega enticing. We get it anywhere we can haha
@ReinMixTape But if the three tracks are in the ten greatest racing game tracks of all time, surely that’s better than just having more? Not these, I mean Sega Rally and Daytona.
Yeah. In Japan, the title of this game was "F-1 Live Information" and as the name, we can play it with the live commentary and analysis comment instead of BGM. It was also amazing.
I would say that Sony first Formula 1 game really set the standard for racing games going forward, the entire season of content cars, teams and tracks, heaps of simulation style features like tyre wear and damage which was revolutionary at the time and now we take for standard.
@@iMichael123S except the grand Prix series from microprose was already doing that a few years ago and was loads better and deeper than the ps1 F1 games. But for consoles that's quite true.
I'm guessing they just ran out of time. I don't know how much was known about PlayStation's imminent F1 game, but assuming previews were shown in 95, Sega might have insisted this was released ahead of it. They were in the habit of trying to be first to the shelves at all costs, after all! I also think it wouldn't have taken that much effort to recreate the tracks in this basic polygonal form. However! Is it possible that the Japanese version's reels and reels of voiced commentary took up so much disc space they didn't have enough storage left to make more tracks? Doesn't explain the cars, of course. It does feel slightly compromised, like it's a demo for an incredible game rather than a finished product. Who knows? :)
@CatGoneCrazy I guess the tracks might have been a license things. Don't know how the license things back then have been ... But until 1998 driver licenses wasn't a part of the official F1 license (Villeneuve as an example). So maybe it was because they didn't had enough track licenses. But for sure this doesn't explain why a lot of Teams are missing in this game but are a part of the game. Or was there a possibility to unlock teams?
This is my first video from you and I love how you explain the technicalities and such of the game and other things, youve earned yourself a like and a sub Edit: When you mentioned the cars looking a bit funny cause they tried to make them look slower due to Ayrtons unfortunate death, I personally dig the look of these, tbh I kinda like almost any era of F1, theyre unique in their own right, but my personal utmost favourite has to be 1998-2008 era, that Formula 1 design era of cars is my favourite of all time, I also grew up watching that era but something about those designs just, its beautiful.
Hey, thanks so much! Yeah the cars did indeed look beautiful in the era you mentioned. I think 1991-1993 was my favourite, but they all have something to offer :) Even the 1970s! (sometimes lol)
just a correction, the drivers on the cover are Schumacher on the benneton, Jean Alesi in the Ferrari, Mika Hakkinen in the McLaren, Ukio Katayama in the Tyrrel, Eddie irvine on the Jordan. Still a nice video.
@@ruricklodder Well done! I’m impressed!You know there was a time I would have known that! I used to memorise all the driver helmet designs and draw them. About 1990 and 91 I was doing that haha. Cheers :)
Richard Jacques, baby! At least for the PAL version of the game. The original Japanese release (F1 Live Information) has no music during the races but Japanese TV-like commentary instead.
I love this game and once you get used to the handling and track layout you can clock up some good lap times as you said. It's a gem of a game on Sega Saturn.
@@retrostansolo Yeah, I played it loads in 1998 when I finally discovered it.Got it second hand but would have easily paid the £50 had I known how good it was!
Loved that game. Could rent it back in the days at a local store here in France. Underrated game imo, it was fun and quite well made. Cars had différent engine sounds and those were real screamers like they were supposed to be. Bringing back a lot of memory so thanks.
I loved F1 and my Saturn at the time, how did I not buy this or even remember it? It must have had limited sales or promotion, plus I also had plenty of other racers like Sega Rally and both PS F1 games so maybe I never gave this a thought if I came across this.
@@psiddey Even I passed it up in favour of Daytona etc and I LOVED Formula One at the time. There was just more appealing stuff around, we really were spoilt!
Original Formula 1 game on ps1 focused on the 1995 season. The only Formula 1 game on console focused on the 1996 season was Nintendo 64's F1 Pole Position 64.
Just stumbled on this video. Very good one. Nice commentary to see commentary from someone who seems both to know about F1 and Saturn. I will definitely check the other racing games videos you have.
Nice video Justin. I played F1 97 to death on the psone. These games really did bring the realism to life. I loved the game because you could change the car set up and it would actually help you as the driver
@@EveryonesAWinner Yeah I sold my Saturn an 18 games for a PlayStation and F1 97. I was happy, but it was a mistake. I had a mint copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga 😭
Oh wow, Ah good times. Take me back to those days the games were amazing. Very special. I had a master system with a 100 games that I’d saved up for from paper round money and donated it to the charity shop! A good deed but I’d love to play it again now.
This was fantastic with the saturn steering wheel, the cars all had thier own characteristics, could have been even better had they expanded the circuits to all 16 and all the teams, both drivers
@@markberrisford1997 Yeah that would have been awesome. I expect they would have dropped the commentary of the Japanese version for a sequel and had all the tracks and drivers. Could have been amazing.
@@CatGoneCrazy I think Tyrell get the credit on this one. It did work for the time, though. Some of those 1990s F1 cars looked, sounded and performed like rockets. 😲
"Sky box" still being used by gran turismo, looks amazing but they're still using 2D/3D Cross shaped sprite trees that move depending on your view lol! Although the car models are completely unmatched
"How can the Saturn load the scenery!!" It can't until your 30ft away lol! for it's time track is decent to be fair, you can tell it's Monaco and that Williams still looks stunning!
@@paxo666 I must admit the Monaco draw-in was closer than I remember when filming this. But it’s not far off the PS1 Monaco. With some work it could have been pretty close in future games, I reckon.
Huge F1 fan, but at that time I was on PC playing the Grand Prix series by Microprose around this era. But this is very impressive from Sega and for the Saturn.
PSOne's first F1 went out in 1996 but it was actually based entirely on the 1995 season. All official pole times were recorded in the game, and I think even the race results were the same, of course, if you were not controlling one of the drivers. I played it a lot back in the day, and we have even placed a little championship in the place we used to go to play, because nobody had the money to have a PS1 at that point. I think the game was not year numbered just because Bizarre Creations only finalized and released too late in '96 to be called a '95 game, but they had all the '95 data licensed and already packed into the game and they had to use it anyway. From 1997 on, they used the traditional model to launch it on the same year as the current season, and it went on like that until 2001. One last fact: Probe had even tried to make a port of the game to the Saturn but the license expired and they had to drop it.
@@fqueirozf Oh yes! I remember reading it was coming to Saturn, but I didn’t know it was the expiring license that killed it. Had Saturn got that and Tomb Raider II, things could have been pretty different. Cheers for the great comment :)
The 95 Ferrari was quite a competitive car. The last Ferrari F1 V12 and Alesi's only win ( Canada ). Schumacher tested the car and said if he had raced it in 95 he would still of won the championship
By far the biggest problem with F1 Challenge is that the game was originally released in November 1995 in Japan as "F1 Live Information" because at some point there was a design idea to have "live commentary" be a selling point instead of attempting to make a full season arcade near simulation for the F1 season which I believe were from between 1993 to 1994 seasons that were attempted by this game. I honestly feel it was a bad decision to go for the live commentary idea but maybe they figured they had to make that idea before someone else did but it takes resources to do that and the live commentary is just pre-recorded scripted anyway... in the Japanese game... If only Sega had tasked the developer on creating the full season and then Sega might have released this game a whole year ahead of Sony's attempt which was a very serious offering and from there we just never had an F1 Sega racer on the Sega Saturn.
This game brings back memories! Does the overseas version of this game not have commentary? The Japanese version, titled "F1 Live Information", featured in-game commentary and remarks that responded to race situations, such as collisions or accidents, just like a live TV broadcast. Unfortunately, possibly due to the extensive amount of voice data, the number of circuits and selectable cars was limited, which was a bit disappointing.
@@ねるさん-c1k No commentary, no! But still only three tracks. Hmmmmm. I expect Murray Walker and Martin Brundle were signed up to Psygnosis so couldn’t/wouldn’t do it!
@@CatGoneCrazy I loved it on Super Monaco GP II for the Mega Drive, because I would be trying to get the slipstream to overtake. The 1992 German GP was the first complete GP that I saw on television. I will be checking your other SEGA videos, since I am a big SEGA fan (I got the Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive and Saturn).
Awesome! I started getting some more Saturn games and i want to buy this F1 game. Question: I can't play Sega Touring Cars the steering is... Did you played it with a Wheel?
@@samghost13 Sega Touring Car Championship is dreadful with the digital pad, almost as bad with the wheel and only almost playable with the 3D NiGHTS pad. It’s not a great game in general, I’ve pretty much given up on it at this point, much as I tried to love it in 1998! I made a video of it with the wheel for Sega Sundays but didn’t post it cos it was so bad. I will try again soon, would be an interesting one!
He was indeed! And he never officially retired, you know, so I'm still hoping for a comeback ;) But no, you only get the five named drivers. Their team mates aren't mentioned. I don't know why, but I suspect Sega were still thinking with an arcade mindset, not realising PlayStation was about to unleash a simulation of the entire sport!
@CatGoneCrazy Yeah Sega in Japan at least still believed that Arcade ports were the road to success as history turns out that theory was a little off the mark speaking of Mansell not retiring he did nearly came back for Jordan in 1997 but he drove the previous years car rather the 1997 car had he driven that car a lot of the Jordan team believed he would have signed up for 97 as that car was the best of Jordan-Peugeots and was capable of winning races had they had more luck in Canada and Germany and had Ralf not driven into Giancarlo in Argentina! 😅
@@adammercer6004 Wow, I didn't know that! That would have been cool, but I don't think he would have been challenging for the title even in that car, but perhaps he could have given it a go. But he belonged to the previous group of drivers. The whole golden era ended when Senna died IMO. Prost had retired, Mansell wasn't really present, Piquet retired... poor Murray was left talking about 'The great Gerhard Berger', which was kind and he wanted someone to champion, but it wasn't really accurate. Mansell would have been all at sea like Senna was in 94 without Prost. Probably better he stayed away, sadly.
@@CatGoneCrazy Funny you should mention Prost he also nearly returned to McLaren in 1994 but car and engine made him think better of it and for 1995 but it was clear by that point that Prost was maybe hoping to use McLaren to learn how to run a team and Ron Dennis wanted a longer commitment than a year still Prost would haven been better than Mansell for Mclaren in 95 and incredibly for Ferrari even after everything that happened when Prost drove for them in the 90 and 91 season for the 1996 season you can thank Jon Todt for that nearly happening the plan was for Alain to play No. 2 to Schumacher which according to Prost he was perfectly fine with!!!
@@adammercer6004 Wow you’re full of knowledge! Very good work :) Prost was my fave, then Mansell, and I didn’t know about that! After they left I supported Hill, then Villeneuve, but in diminishing amounts.
@@Masca79 So I’ve heard! They missed the release window so had to call it ‘Formula One’. I got a PS1 with F1 97 so wasn’t familiar with the original :)
I’d never heard of this, had all the PSX F1’s (incidentally the first one was ‘95 the same as this - there were barely any 1996 season licensed games - F1RS on PC and Pole Position 64 on N64). Also I’m pretty certain F1 97 had Schumacher on the front! 😂
I review them for PC Gamer these days. But I don't have time to play them for fun at the moment, sadly. I've played them a lot in 2010-2013 when I had more free time, especially online. I think the series has lost the magic of that 2008-2010 Codemasters era, constantly downgrading the crashes and spectacle, but the career mode has become best-in-class.
@@CatGoneCrazyI didn't know either until I looked at an older version of his website, possibly between 2006-2009. It was a total surprise to me as well.
The game plays well and looks good, but it needed more tracks and all the other cars playable and above all some kind of championship mode. Compared to Formula One on PlayStation it looks good, but plays a bit worse, but it loses on content. I love playing the PlayStation game in 2 player link-up.
@@CasperEgas Yeah I was saying in another comment it feels like a demo and I do wonder whether they wanted to do the whole championship but were asked to just get the game out.
its the skinny mclaren mercedes our nige was too fat for so had to retire. he also tested a jordan as well. i never had a sega was always a pc guy but the first game anyone ever bought me was geoff crammonds f1 gp which wasnt licensed, and the cars only had 4 colours each, but the car colours and helmets were correct, you just had to change the names around (i think the original release had it all correct and then they copped lawsuits over it) but it was that immersive you always knew who you were passing. then on pc you got to move on to papyrus games like indycar or nascar racing which were pretty much the first games where changing your settings around on a car actually made a difference and had full simulated physics instead of just an animation or slowdown.
@@privateinformation2960 My friend had Papyrus’ Indycar and NASCAR games, they were superb. And we played Grand Prix 2 so much. He even modded it so it had the real names and even ran faster. But I did love co sole games more. They were more fluid and more exciting. And yes that is indeed the Mansell McLaren. Pity they didn’t have him as the playable driver, I would have loved that :)
its really a shame how this is one of the only "good" racing games on the Saturn, with Daytona USA being rather poor in comparison and Sega Touring Cars... being how it is with the car handling.
Sega Touring Car Championship is dreadful on Saturn. I used to be an apologist, but I tried to do a Sega Sundays video on it recently and it 's a shocker! Might give it another go and make a vid soon.
@CatGoneCrazy yes still difficult, but you can at least make progress lol, it's hard in the arcade too I found a machine in an arcade a while back and was hopeless
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Interesting game! Never heard of this one. Its nice to see someone with some knowledge from the time play one of these too! Thanks for the video
F1 Challenge 1995 basically very good game.
Your ability to drive this (obviously hard) game + track combo while talking about technicalities of the game is super impressive. You even knew about the detail on the McLaren and the right year for Hill's championship. Subbed.
@@MarcosCodas Cheers!
Definitely seen gameplay footage of this game before. This is one of the games that is making me consider the Saturn especially with the familiar Sega arcade feel of the bold colors and electronic music. Great Sega Sunday video :)
@@TheCruisnDude Nobody does colours like Sega did colours in the 90s.
I'm from Brazil and I played this game a lot 25 years ago.
@Isabellyvl Me too in the UK. Turns out today is 30 years since I got my Mega Drive! Time flies, huh?
This looks miles better than the Psygnosis PSX games! How have I never heard of this one?
@@HouseOfFunQM I honestly don’t think they made many copies! I saw it once or twice in shops at the time, but I wanted Daytona, NiGHTS, Worldwide Soccer etc before it, so it got missed out. It just wasn’t a big thing at the time, of course now the Sega racing DNA is mega enticing. We get it anywhere we can haha
Sega did have some great racing games, but what let them down in opinion was how they were often limited to 3 tracks on average.
@ReinMixTape But if the three tracks are in the ten greatest racing game tracks of all time, surely that’s better than just having more? Not these, I mean Sega Rally and Daytona.
That's true, and I'm just noticimg it now. Same was true for Sega Rally and Daytona USA. Odd "formula"...
@@chimchim2_ Easy, Medium, and Hard. It’s just the arcade way :)
10% of the games seemingly limited the track amount to just 3.
That was their 'arcade experience in the home' mentality coming into play, which is sorta just shooting yourself in the foot, IMO.
Yeah. In Japan, the title of this game was "F-1 Live Information" and as the name, we can play it with the live commentary and analysis comment instead of BGM. It was also amazing.
@@president_tom I was thinking all that audio may have been the reason for so few racetracks!
The first two PlayStation games were based on the 1995 and 1997 seasons respectively.
F1 1995 PS1 is equally fantastic.
I would say that Sony first Formula 1 game really set the standard for racing games going forward, the entire season of content cars, teams and tracks, heaps of simulation style features like tyre wear and damage which was revolutionary at the time and now we take for standard.
@@iMichael123S except the grand Prix series from microprose was already doing that a few years ago and was loads better and deeper than the ps1 F1 games. But for consoles that's quite true.
Its also odd how this game chose to recreate every other 1995 F1 car (such as the Minardi with those bright green highlights), but locked them away.
I'm guessing they just ran out of time. I don't know how much was known about PlayStation's imminent F1 game, but assuming previews were shown in 95, Sega might have insisted this was released ahead of it. They were in the habit of trying to be first to the shelves at all costs, after all! I also think it wouldn't have taken that much effort to recreate the tracks in this basic polygonal form. However! Is it possible that the Japanese version's reels and reels of voiced commentary took up so much disc space they didn't have enough storage left to make more tracks? Doesn't explain the cars, of course. It does feel slightly compromised, like it's a demo for an incredible game rather than a finished product. Who knows? :)
@CatGoneCrazy I guess the tracks might have been a license things.
Don't know how the license things back then have been ...
But until 1998 driver licenses wasn't a part of the official F1 license (Villeneuve as an example).
So maybe it was because they didn't had enough track licenses.
But for sure this doesn't explain why a lot of Teams are missing in this game but are a part of the game. Or was there a possibility to unlock teams?
Cool video, top comentary and playing my favourite console? Keep them coming! Subbed from Portugal.
This is my first video from you and I love how you explain the technicalities and such of the game and other things, youve earned yourself a like and a sub
Edit: When you mentioned the cars looking a bit funny cause they tried to make them look slower due to Ayrtons unfortunate death, I personally dig the look of these, tbh I kinda like almost any era of F1, theyre unique in their own right, but my personal utmost favourite has to be 1998-2008 era, that Formula 1 design era of cars is my favourite of all time, I also grew up watching that era but something about those designs just, its beautiful.
Hey, thanks so much! Yeah the cars did indeed look beautiful in the era you mentioned. I think 1991-1993 was my favourite, but they all have something to offer :) Even the 1970s! (sometimes lol)
just a correction, the drivers on the cover are Schumacher on the benneton, Jean Alesi in the Ferrari, Mika Hakkinen in the McLaren, Ukio Katayama in the Tyrrel, Eddie irvine on the Jordan. Still a nice video.
@@ruricklodder Well done! I’m impressed!You know there was a time I would have known that! I used to memorise all the driver helmet designs and draw them. About 1990 and 91 I was doing that haha. Cheers :)
@@CatGoneCrazy heheh Cool, in my case I'm love to draw the cars :)
@@ruricklodder Nice! I used to do that too. Also would animate little crash sequences on my Commodore VIC-20 lol
Awesome video! I had never seen this game in motion. Really cool.
The game even had the audio differentiation between the V12 Ferrari and the V10 Williams. Great detail for that time period!
Music in this games is..oh..just amazing
Richard Jacques, baby! At least for the PAL version of the game. The original Japanese release (F1 Live Information) has no music during the races but Japanese TV-like commentary instead.
I love this game and once you get used to the handling and track layout you can clock up some good lap times as you said. It's a gem of a game on Sega Saturn.
@@retrostansolo Yeah, I played it loads in 1998 when I finally discovered it.Got it second hand but would have easily paid the £50 had I known how good it was!
Loved that game. Could rent it back in the days at a local store here in France. Underrated game imo, it was fun and quite well made. Cars had différent engine sounds and those were real screamers like they were supposed to be.
Bringing back a lot of memory so thanks.
Ah, lovely stuff. So much about retro gaming is the memories associated with it, glad this brought back some good ones for you :)
I loved F1 and my Saturn at the time, how did I not buy this or even remember it? It must have had limited sales or promotion, plus I also had plenty of other racers like Sega Rally and both PS F1 games so maybe I never gave this a thought if I came across this.
@@psiddey Even I passed it up in favour of Daytona etc and I LOVED Formula One at the time. There was just more appealing stuff around, we really were spoilt!
Original Formula 1 game on ps1 focused on the 1995 season.
The only Formula 1 game on console focused on the 1996 season was Nintendo 64's F1 Pole Position 64.
Just stumbled on this video. Very good one. Nice commentary to see commentary from someone who seems both to know about F1 and Saturn. I will definitely check the other racing games videos you have.
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I remember having this and Ukyo Katayama for some reason. F1 1997 brought me in to, along with F1 World GP on 64.
@@roonsss I had World GP on Dreamcast. Good game!
The Saturn was a phenomenal machine - such a shame it didn't get the software it deserved.
@@matthewcb1970 Yes that’s true. Its library is still incredible, but you’re right, it could have been so much more. Same with Dreamcast.
For some reason F1 and soccer/NFL games seem to be the pinnacle of graphics/3D back in the day
Nice video Justin. I played F1 97 to death on the psone. These games really did bring the realism to life. I loved the game because you could change the car set up and it would actually help you as the driver
@@EveryonesAWinner Yeah I sold my Saturn an 18 games for a PlayStation and F1 97. I was happy, but it was a mistake. I had a mint copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga 😭
Oh wow, Ah good times. Take me back to those days the games were amazing. Very special. I had a master system with a 100 games that I’d saved up for from paper round money and donated it to the charity shop! A good deed but I’d love to play it again now.
The sense of speed on this game is better than the EA Sports variants on the PS1 (like F1 2000 or F1 Championship Season 2000)
This was fantastic with the saturn steering wheel, the cars all had thier own characteristics, could have been even better had they expanded the circuits to all 16 and all the teams, both drivers
@@markberrisford1997 Yeah that would have been awesome. I expect they would have dropped the commentary of the Japanese version for a sequel and had all the tracks and drivers. Could have been amazing.
I love the games based on the 1995 season. It's cool seeing all the different noses. There was so much visual variety that season.
@@vinnyfanneran3116 Yeah it was a wild time. Whoever would have thought that getting more air under the car would be a good thing?!
@@CatGoneCrazy I think Tyrell get the credit on this one. It did work for the time, though. Some of those 1990s F1 cars looked, sounded and performed like rockets. 😲
"Sky box" still being used by gran turismo, looks amazing but they're still using 2D/3D Cross shaped sprite trees that move depending on your view lol!
Although the car models are completely unmatched
The Sega Saturn game of F1 Challenge seems to be very underrated.
@@DamarFadlan25 Totally forgotten, for shame!
Nice video. And FWIW F1 teams started switching to 7 gears around 2000 or so.
@@jasonmoyer Thank you :) I just checked, Ferrari did it in 1989, but they were the first. Great days!
I had no idea this game existed. Cool.
"How can the Saturn load the scenery!!"
It can't until your 30ft away lol!
for it's time track is decent to be fair, you can tell it's Monaco and that Williams still looks stunning!
@@paxo666 I must admit the Monaco draw-in was closer than I remember when filming this. But it’s not far off the PS1 Monaco. With some work it could have been pretty close in future games, I reckon.
Surprisingly sophisticated!
@@AlexBayes Good alliteration! I like it :)
Huge F1 fan, but at that time I was on PC playing the Grand Prix series by Microprose around this era. But this is very impressive from Sega and for the Saturn.
@@DjFIL007 I played a lot of Grand Prix 2. Superb game :)
I had this. My friend had formula 1 on ps1. I got this. I was confused as to where all the tracks were ....
PSOne's first F1 went out in 1996 but it was actually based entirely on the 1995 season. All official pole times were recorded in the game, and I think even the race results were the same, of course, if you were not controlling one of the drivers. I played it a lot back in the day, and we have even placed a little championship in the place we used to go to play, because nobody had the money to have a PS1 at that point. I think the game was not year numbered just because Bizarre Creations only finalized and released too late in '96 to be called a '95 game, but they had all the '95 data licensed and already packed into the game and they had to use it anyway. From 1997 on, they used the traditional model to launch it on the same year as the current season, and it went on like that until 2001. One last fact: Probe had even tried to make a port of the game to the Saturn but the license expired and they had to drop it.
@@fqueirozf Oh yes! I remember reading it was coming to Saturn, but I didn’t know it was the expiring license that killed it. Had Saturn got that and Tomb Raider II, things could have been pretty different. Cheers for the great comment :)
I agree. Old Hockenheim, sorely missed.
I always liked this Saturn racer, it rarely gets attention.
The 95 Ferrari was quite a competitive car. The last Ferrari F1 V12 and Alesi's only win ( Canada ). Schumacher tested the car and said if he had raced it in 95 he would still of won the championship
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@@thegreathadoken6808 PLAY SEGA SATURN
By far the biggest problem with F1 Challenge is that the game was originally released in November 1995 in Japan as "F1 Live Information" because at some point there was a design idea to have "live commentary" be a selling point instead of attempting to make a full season arcade near simulation for the F1 season which I believe were from between 1993 to 1994 seasons that were attempted by this game. I honestly feel it was a bad decision to go for the live commentary idea but maybe they figured they had to make that idea before someone else did but it takes resources to do that and the live commentary is just pre-recorded scripted anyway... in the Japanese game... If only Sega had tasked the developer on creating the full season and then Sega might have released this game a whole year ahead of Sony's attempt which was a very serious offering and from there we just never had an F1 Sega racer on the Sega Saturn.
This game brings back memories! Does the overseas version of this game not have commentary? The Japanese version, titled "F1 Live Information", featured in-game commentary and remarks that responded to race situations, such as collisions or accidents, just like a live TV broadcast. Unfortunately, possibly due to the extensive amount of voice data, the number of circuits and selectable cars was limited, which was a bit disappointing.
@@ねるさん-c1k No commentary, no! But still only three tracks. Hmmmmm. I expect Murray Walker and Martin Brundle were signed up to Psygnosis so couldn’t/wouldn’t do it!
It looks amazing!! Specially since it's a Saturn game.
Fab game for 95 ..
The old Hockenheim circuit was awesome.
@@Edudux Yeah, so sad to see it overgrown now :(
@@CatGoneCrazy I loved it on Super Monaco GP II for the Mega Drive, because I would be trying to get the slipstream to overtake. The 1992 German GP was the first complete GP that I saw on television.
I will be checking your other SEGA videos, since I am a big SEGA fan (I got the Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive and Saturn).
Still wearing your retainer? I remember u from your Invisalign videos lol
@@AFRNick Haha at night, yes! And the bar behind my teeth, of course :)
Awesome! I started getting some more Saturn games and i want to buy this F1 game. Question: I can't play Sega Touring Cars the steering is... Did you played it with a Wheel?
@@samghost13 Sega Touring Car Championship is dreadful with the digital pad, almost as bad with the wheel and only almost playable with the 3D NiGHTS pad. It’s not a great game in general, I’ve pretty much given up on it at this point, much as I tried to love it in 1998! I made a video of it with the wheel for Sega Sundays but didn’t post it cos it was so bad. I will try again soon, would be an interesting one!
Quite question can you play as Mansell in this game??? He was at Mclaren in 1995... Well for all of two races...
He was indeed! And he never officially retired, you know, so I'm still hoping for a comeback ;) But no, you only get the five named drivers. Their team mates aren't mentioned. I don't know why, but I suspect Sega were still thinking with an arcade mindset, not realising PlayStation was about to unleash a simulation of the entire sport!
@CatGoneCrazy Yeah Sega in Japan at least still believed that Arcade ports were the road to success as history turns out that theory was a little off the mark speaking of Mansell not retiring he did nearly came back for Jordan in 1997 but he drove the previous years car rather the 1997 car had he driven that car a lot of the Jordan team believed he would have signed up for 97 as that car was the best of Jordan-Peugeots and was capable of winning races had they had more luck in Canada and Germany and had Ralf not driven into Giancarlo in Argentina! 😅
@@adammercer6004 Wow, I didn't know that! That would have been cool, but I don't think he would have been challenging for the title even in that car, but perhaps he could have given it a go. But he belonged to the previous group of drivers. The whole golden era ended when Senna died IMO. Prost had retired, Mansell wasn't really present, Piquet retired... poor Murray was left talking about 'The great Gerhard Berger', which was kind and he wanted someone to champion, but it wasn't really accurate. Mansell would have been all at sea like Senna was in 94 without Prost. Probably better he stayed away, sadly.
@@CatGoneCrazy Funny you should mention Prost he also nearly returned to McLaren in 1994 but car and engine made him think better of it and for 1995 but it was clear by that point that Prost was maybe hoping to use McLaren to learn how to run a team and Ron Dennis wanted a longer commitment than a year still Prost would haven been better than Mansell for Mclaren in 95 and incredibly for Ferrari even after everything that happened when Prost drove for them in the 90 and 91 season for the 1996 season you can thank Jon Todt for that nearly happening the plan was for Alain to play No. 2 to Schumacher which according to Prost he was perfectly fine with!!!
@@adammercer6004 Wow you’re full of knowledge! Very good work :) Prost was my fave, then Mansell, and I didn’t know about that! After they left I supported Hill, then Villeneuve, but in diminishing amounts.
The first Psygnosis F1 title for PlayStation also had 1995.
@@Masca79 So I’ve heard! They missed the release window so had to call it ‘Formula One’. I got a PS1 with F1 97 so wasn’t familiar with the original :)
I’d never heard of this, had all the PSX F1’s (incidentally the first one was ‘95 the same as this - there were barely any 1996 season licensed games - F1RS on PC and Pole Position 64 on N64). Also I’m pretty certain F1 97 had Schumacher on the front! 😂
@@domformula1 Yeah I think it did! But that was clearly the best F1 game at the time so I had to have it :)
Better image quality than PS1
Do you play the modern F1 games?
I review them for PC Gamer these days. But I don't have time to play them for fun at the moment, sadly. I've played them a lot in 2010-2013 when I had more free time, especially online. I think the series has lost the magic of that 2008-2010 Codemasters era, constantly downgrading the crashes and spectacle, but the career mode has become best-in-class.
Interesting fact, Richard Jacques did the music. 🏁
@@MIKandJEAN Oh cool! I did not know that! Must’ve been one of his first :)
@@CatGoneCrazyI didn't know either until I looked at an older version of his website, possibly between 2006-2009. It was a total surprise to me as well.
Drag Saturn graphics get excited!
David Guetta playing videogames 🤪
@@whatsintheboxx You should check out my music! Not quite like David Guetta, but I did self-produce my 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th albums :)
Ferrari had a 7th gear starting from 1990. However, I don't know if the 1995 Ferrari did.
Awesome video!
Is there no season?
@@JOHNN01.82 Nope! Just single races :)
The game plays well and looks good, but it needed more tracks and all the other cars playable and above all some kind of championship mode.
Compared to Formula One on PlayStation it looks good, but plays a bit worse, but it loses on content. I love playing the PlayStation game in 2 player link-up.
@@CasperEgas Yeah I was saying in another comment it feels like a demo and I do wonder whether they wanted to do the whole championship but were asked to just get the game out.
I had this game! It was really great for the time. Good stuff!
should have been 32-bit super scalar.
Imagine that! I do wish Sega had done some Super Scaler-style games just for the home.
PS1 F1 from Psygnosis is better, but it's nice to see this game. Never heard of it.
its the skinny mclaren mercedes our nige was too fat for so had to retire. he also tested a jordan as well.
i never had a sega was always a pc guy but the first game anyone ever bought me was geoff crammonds f1 gp which wasnt licensed, and the cars only had 4 colours each, but the car colours and helmets were correct, you just had to change the names around (i think the original release had it all correct and then they copped lawsuits over it) but it was that immersive you always knew who you were passing.
then on pc you got to move on to papyrus games like indycar or nascar racing which were pretty much the first games where changing your settings around on a car actually made a difference and had full simulated physics instead of just an animation or slowdown.
@@privateinformation2960 My friend had Papyrus’ Indycar and NASCAR games, they were superb. And we played Grand Prix 2 so much. He even modded it so it had the real names and even ran faster. But I did love co sole games more. They were more fluid and more exciting. And yes that is indeed the Mansell McLaren. Pity they didn’t have him as the playable driver, I would have loved that :)
I did the same back in day, sold my Saturn to get a PS1 :(
@GP-2024-ZIP It seemed to make sense at the time, right? But basically unbelievable in hindsight!
@@CatGoneCrazy 100%
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Anteriormente Beyoind The Limit para Mega CD
@@srxabier2778 I would like to play that one :)
Be fore Formula One on PS1, it was a good game I guess
Formula one 1997 the best of them all
@heavydude7474 You’re right there, Murray.
30fps? Try 12.
@@prophetascending9021 25fps on a PAL Saturn, 12 with the mirror on.
😅astrailian Sega Jesus all hail King of d9wn under Sega blunda😊
@@ZorziZero-xf6ey Are you talking about me or you? Australia is the other side of the world from where I live! I’m English!
its really a shame how this is one of the only "good" racing games on the Saturn, with Daytona USA being rather poor in comparison and Sega Touring Cars... being how it is with the car handling.
Sega Touring Car Championship is dreadful on Saturn. I used to be an apologist, but I tried to do a Sega Sundays video on it recently and it 's a shocker! Might give it another go and make a vid soon.
Lol what?
Sega rally, daytona usa ce, tokyo shutokou 97, touge 2 drift, manx tt.
Saturn had a ton of very good exclusive racing games
@@CatGoneCrazy Its much more playable with 3d controller and manual gears setting
@@PatrickIngham21 Yes it is, but still alarmingly ropey!
@CatGoneCrazy yes still difficult, but you can at least make progress lol, it's hard in the arcade too I found a machine in an arcade a while back and was hopeless