GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a racing video game developed and published by Konami for the arcades in 1996. It is the first game in the GTI Club series. It was re-released for PlayStation Network in 2008.

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur
Cover art for the 2008 re-release
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
SeriesGTI Club
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: September 12, 1996[1]
  • WW: 1996
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemKonami Scorpion[2]

Gameplay

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a game that gives players a choice of eight cars including the VW Golf GTI, Renault Le Car, and Mini Cooper, and the course winds through a European city.[3] It is a street racing game with non-linear maps, allowing players to take shortcuts through alternative routes such as tunnels and back alleys.[2]

Development and release

The first GTI Club game was released for the arcades in 1996 by Konami, on their new Cobra arcade board.[4] Three models were released: a deluxe single-player cabinet, a dual sitdown cabinet, and a single-player sitdown cabinet.[5] In the U.S., the deluxe model was released only in very limited numbers.[6]

Reception

The game was a hit in arcades.[2] In Japan, Game Machine listed GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur on their February 1, 1997 issue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.[7]

Next Generation reviewed the arcade game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "in the end, GTI Club is a sufficiently immersive one-player game, but with a field in a Tag Race, it's a blast".[3] Hyper magazine also rated it 4 out of 5 stars.[8]

References
  1. "KONAMI/Press Release". 1997-01-07. Archived from the original on 1997-01-07. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  2. "Konami: Sssmokin'!" (PDF). Next Generation. No. 27 (March 1997). 11 February 1997. p. 26.
  3. "Finals". Next Generation. No. 36. Imagine Media. December 1997. p. 178.
  4. "JAMMA '96: Konami and Capcom Gain Ground". Next Generation. No. 24. Imagine Media. December 1996. p. 20.
  5. Webb, Marcus (March 1997). "Konami: Sssmokin'!". Next Generation. No. 27. Imagine Media. p. 26.
  6. Webb, Marcus (June 1997). "Konami America Blows Away the Bad Guys". Next Generation. No. 30. Imagine Media. p. 28.
  7. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - 完成品夕イプのTVゲーム機 (Dedicated Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 534. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 February 1997. p. 25.
  8. "Arcade". Hyper. No. 41. March 1997. pp. 20–1.
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