Grand Prix Unlimited

Grand Prix Unlimited is a 1992 Formula One video game published by Accolade. The game was licensed by the Road & Track magazine.

Grand Prix Unlimited
Developer(s)Accolade
Publisher(s)Accolade
Platform(s)DOS
ReleaseApril 1992[1]
Genre(s)Sim racing

Gameplay

Grand Prix Unlimited is a game in which five car setups are featured - Williams-Renault, McLaren-Honda, Ferrari, Tyrrell and Benetton-Ford - with 21 Formula One circuit tracks.[2] The player can choose a practice session or a single race, or to compete in the World Championship.[3] The game includes named drivers and a course designer to customize races for the player.[2] The game also allow the player to modify the car's attributes, as well as the weather conditions on the track.[3] The game has five levels of difficulty.[2]

Reception

Wallace Poulter reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Road & Track Presents Grand Prix Unlimited is an extremely frustrating product. There is a gem of a design waiting to be discovered yet this excellent design work has been compromised by the implementation."[2]

Clayton Walnum for Compute! said that despite the game's bad sound effects, "Grand Prix Unlimited is a solid – albeit not groundbreaking – racing simulation."[3]

Reviews

See also

References
  1. Zerkel, Jim (January 30, 1992). "VGA card puts the wow in comptuter games". SouthtownStar. p. 69. Retrieved June 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Poulter, Wallace (October 1992). "Car on a Hot Tarmac: Accolade's Road & Track Presents Grand Prix Unlimited". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 99. p. 52.
  3. "Compute! Magazine Issue 147". December 19, 1992 – via Internet Archive.
  4. "Kultboy.com - DIE Kult-Seite über die alten Spiele-Magazine und Retro-Games!". www.kultboy.com.
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