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  • My father used to play this game everyday haha. I was always singing the music of the intro :D Such good memories !!!!

  • Get a Nintendo DS, buy a "Supercard DSTwo", download the DOS-Emulator "DS2x86" and then you can play this great game on your Nintendo DS in almost the same performance as shown in this video.

    Thank you, Geoff Crammond, for creating the best F1-series in videogame-history

    and

    thank you, Patrick Aalto, for creating such a brillant DOS-Emulator for the Nintendo DS.

    And he's still working on this emulator, so the performance will get better and better.

    Just a dream to have this game in your pocket

  • i have played it on Amiga and a 386, 486 and pentium 60 cpu pc ! great moments !

  • This brings a nostalgia rush to me. I remember doing 360km/h on Monza main straight because there was opponent on pit road and the game glitched & thought i was dragging behind him. I also remember the security/copy/whatever check that you had to write a word from a specified page and row from game's manual. Of course i had copied game without manuals, and i only remembered word "table" from page 181 that worked. Sometimes i had to start the game like 50 times before page 181 check came up.

  • quick question: how to you accelerate cause im pushing A and it just wont go

  • This great classic can be played on a Nintendo DS by using a "SuperCard DSTWO" with the Dos-Emulator "DS2x86" (by Patrick Aalto) and the game.

    It's not as smooth as in this video, but it's running with 20 fps, which is enough to have a lot of fun with this great game wherever you are.

  • Haha Carlos Sanchez, I get it!

  • can anybody give me the link of this game ? i really want it

  • is sheats el game of sheats

  • OMG I remember playing this game for hours. I would play a whole season with all free sessions, qualifying sessions and full 2 hours race every time. I played 2 times a week. I was so concentrated. Really submerged in the virtual world.

    Then came GP2, which was astonishing, but I couldn'f find the time again to play full seasons like in f1gp. Good old days. that was world of warcraft for me.

  • Bring back estoril

  • Damn! So many good tracks that they don't race any more. I used to love the San Marino and Magny Cours circuits and now we have crap tracks like Singapore and Bahrain instead, real shame.

  • when this game arrived, we said "It's impossible"

    1 mb ram, no hard disk, this is THE GAME

  • Hey there, whats up?

    I am using Dogbox to play it, but my game stays very slow, at like 15 fps..how can i make it run so smooth like this?

    i configured cpu clycles value to be 18000, but still slow...

    any help will be appreciated!

    Thanks! ;)

  • @veilsidebr If you press T it will lower the details and the game will run faster.

  • @veilsidebr

    There was a fixed FPS in this game, which you can set by the game settings. I think 15fps was default...

  • i man greaatt game, i love playing with Senna, i used to play that on amiga

  • Takes me back to the summer of 92'. I WAS Nigel Mansell

  • great video!! nossa eu jogava muuuito isso aí quando eu tinha uns 11 anos! =D

    já era viciado naquela época em F1, depois gp2, gp3, gp4 e finalmente em 2010 conheci o rFactor! =D thanks!

  • rfactor beats gp4 anyday

  • This was one of my first PC games that I had and I loved it. I have fond memories of that red sheet of paper full of words on both sides for the password/key function, lol.

  • No limit in the pit-lane, nice.

    I played this on the Atari ST all the time. I remember copying it from my friend who lived down the road and had more money than me. I photocopied the whole manual at my dads work as you needed it to enter a chosen word as an anti-pirate measure.

    Memories, from the corners of my mind....etc.

  • have you guys ever smoked Duckhams? its better Rothmans

  • I remember playing this game on our DOS machine when I was younger. Now that we don't have our Dos machine anymore, I'll just run it with DOSbox in Ubuntu.

  • I love how all the subsequent games in this series stayed so close to their roots. <3

  • God i loved this game, i started on the amiga with it, then pc. At first trying to stay with the fast drivers, eventually winning the championship on the hardest level. Today i race online with Rfactor, but the excitement was there already.

  • haha i have a copy and the intro "movie" is biggest file in the game

  • This wonderful game gave me my first experience of racing sims! I was about 13yrs old and stayed up one night and completed three 100% races one after the other. Great times!

  • where to get this game?cos i have a better game you know.......

  • This is fun!

  • 5:01 looked like a rape scene...

  • @Superpizzabros lol... shocking sense of humour!

  • Very good game back in the days. It was funny activating the helps and destroying the cpu cars

  • Italy - Monza :D gr8!

  • k so the graphics music and animation are laughauble by todays standards but this was a really stylishly put together opening sequence

  • I wish Crammond will make GP5!

    Oh and wonderful Game!!

  • Me too.

    But it's hard to say if you look at the wonderful work the modders are doing for GP4.

  • Crammond hatte damals kein Geld für die Rechte der Fahrer- und Teamnamen. So wurden "Sanches, Becker, Davies und Co." zu echten Helden.

    ------

    Crammond couldn't buy the rights for really team and driver-names for 91' Seasion - so Names like "Sanches, Becker, Davies und Co." became heroes...

    Really nice game, i played it as a child for so long.. .and when GP2/3 came up... we were experienced so far...

  • LOL, 200+ km/h trough the pit :D

  • my first f1 game too omg that was a time when i played that i think it had 6 or 7 disc to install lol a funny time

  • I was a pro in Monaco!!!

  • Brings back memories. Shame about the atrocious driving.

  • I had a similar game for my Commodore Amiga 600! Or maybe it is the same game...anyway, Geoff Crammond Rulez...i LOVE Gran Prix 3 & 4

  • it was my first f1 game..I loved it:)

  • Man, you are an awful driver..

    This game was hard especially when played without ANY of the helps. Also one could customize different setups and parameters quite extensively, which prolonged interest to the game.

    Countless laps behind, I can tell you. Many thanks, Geoff!

  • I played this game so much. Imagine that in 1991, was the maximum. As the GP5 was launched today...

  • Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4 is the DEFINITIVE F1 racing simulator.

  • hahahaha, 'Carlos Sanchez' (Ayrton Senna)...

    more like, 'Dirty Sanchez'! lol

  • worse in 1st version. You already saw the 4 updated to 2009?

    this game is classic, but most current version

    =)

    sorry bad english i use google translator

  • Por Dios que Juego ESPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!! lo jugue 10.000 veces!!! Crammond un grande

  • Não lembro direito... O som na época saia pelo PC Speaker ou já existia placa de som sound blaster ??

  • holy shit, is this on the xbox 360?

  • yes, it will be released next month. :-)

  • haha despite it not being that impressive graphically now myself, my friends and family all lost hours on this game - its still the most enjoyable f1 game I've played.

  • Cheeky monkey.

    It would be great if Crammond did a new F1 game. I think he's too rich and lazy these days.

    It was very playable though - a great and fun game for its time although it didn't have the contact physics that Papyrus' Indycar game had.

  • I don't think there's a need for that. Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4 is the DEFINITIVE F1 racing simulator. There should be annual offical updates though, rather than having players have to rely on the mod community for new season packs.

  • MicroProse got consumed by Hasbro and then Infogrames and Infogrames pulled the plug on what was left of the MicroProse guys, so that would be the end of any updates.

  • Oh, I see. That is pretty bad. =(

  • i wonder how many hours of rendering the big servers of that time needed to create that intro :p :D

  • We didn't have big servers - we had my 386 with about 160 MB hard drive and I dread to think how little RAM - 16 meg I think.

    MicroProse in Baltimore inssisted that everything had to run DOS legal, so even if tou had a massive 16 meg of RAM on your PC, the game still had to run in 650k or thereabouts!

  • Still play it to this day :)

  • Nice game!

  • Haha...

    The intro music sounds fantastically like 'The Chain' on the Beeb!

  • it sounds a lot like the chain from fleetwood mac, yeah :D

  • It was knocked off The Chain, as that's the music the BBC used for their F1 highlights show on Sunday nights. Hard to believe now, but music and sound was a total afterthought in those days.

    WE completed this game in late 1990 and I think it was released in early 1991 ( I could be mixing it up with the Amiga/ST versions though).

  • Thanks for infos geffel! i really appreciate :)

    I was totally astonished by game intro! i got a shivering as music and microprose-gp logo faded in, wonderful, thanks everyone made that game possible :)

  • Hehe, yes indeed.

    That's cool, I didn't knew that...

  • @thetwiddlemiester

    I think on British TV they used that song as the intro, so to a Brit hearing that songs makes them think of F1.

  • the sound from the amigaversion was so much better...

  • i don't remember if there was the roland+sblaster option too. anyway, game was much more fluid on pc with nicer asphalt texture, great era anyway :)

  • i got a later copy of this series, 2 or 3 possibly.i think maybe it was based around the '94, '95 season. i wanna play it on my pc, but i can't make it run, any help?

  • Same here. I didn't knew how it was called, but the menu style and the options shown in the video remembered me (and it was also from MicroProse). I guess it was the 2nd one...we got it in '95 AFAIK for our P100 (with 12+4 Megs of RAM!!)

  • download VDMS sound, and use that to run the program by right clicking the GP2.exe and selecting to open with VDMS sound, If that doesn't work download DOSbox open that program, and use that to run the program. This is a little more complicated. You have to open DOSbox, right some code stuff so it locates the GP2 game. You should find the code pretty easily if search through google.

  • My brother would play this for hours and hours. My dad brought home a pirated copy from his office tut.

  • Hey dude. Love ur selection of vids. Really jogs my memory of some fond times spent on my old Amiga! I tried to download a game from your website, but it tells me that I require the floppy disk to run it? Any ideas?

  • nice driving lol

  • Is there schumacher in this game?

    Where are the download link? :)

    I want this game. I want, I want.

    hahhah..

    Sounds: #10

    Graphics: #10

  • Check my website to download the game...

  • Haha, woah! I grew up playing Grand Prix 2 and (especially) Grand Prix 3, playing for a ridicolous amount of hours, and spending just as many hours editing cars and helmets for GP3 in Microsoft Paint as I played the games, so it's very interesting seeing the very first game in this series as I've never seen it.

    Fictional name in this one? Hard to recognise some of the cars, but the Leyton House and Tyrrells are easy to spot... Cool! :D

  • i have the amiga version and drive so many rounds ....

    fantastic game!

  • I grew up with this game, usually did 100% length races and even 2-3 races in the same evening/middle of the night - I just couldn't stop driving.

    Had one of those yoke steering wheels which just tilted left and right haha, ahh good memories.

  • that game has one of the best intro sequences AND songs i have ever heard.

  • Kwl. On F1GP is there 26 drivers or is there more and you have to prequalify?

  • The Amiga version was better than this. I was a multiple champion at Ace level! I didnt need girls!

  • OMG, this brings back so many memories! I used to play this game for HOURS with a joystick and I thought it was SO cool! (Well, back then, it was.)

  • I grew up with this. our first computer had this game on it. The first time ever I played a race game it was this one. I did a 4.08 round Spa-Francorchamps, two months later it was 2.07

    Carlos Sanchez (the driver with nr. 1 in this game) owned!

  • the grand prix-series is the best series of f1-simulations ever. its so real and even the latest f1-game (f1 06) isn't so realistic like the grand prix-series!

  • Best ever? Don't be silly!

  • Defined my childhood

  • Davies and Rivellini. My greatest rivals when I was 5 years old :P

  • This game look very good, very good 3D graphics for that year!

    Respect!

  • i love the sfx

  • i'm know this game...this game ... is called Tux Kart racing on the Linux.... XD

    and it does not run knows he even suffered accident...

  • c'etait realiste pour l'epoque

  • The pit stops are better than rFactor's, and that was 16 years ago!

  • the cars get damaged, not even gran turismo has this feature !

  • What a game...

    The Original Portugal, Hockenheim, Imola, Mexico, etc. Green start lights, Fix all pit-stops with no speed limits, thaousands of hours lost in darkened rooms to get that set-up just so.

    Absolutely glorious!

    I liked the bouncy physics engine, and checking the frame rate on faster (!) machines.

    Where did I put those floppy disks?

  • Retro Games Rock!

  • i used to love this game when i was younger :)

  • Where I can have to buy it! Or is it this freeware??

  • It is abandonware now. It is ancient.

  • if somebody has it i prepare to pay 50 bucks

  • Just search for the game with the term "abandonware" on google. That's how I found it. I'm not going to advertise any sites here.

  • Yeah, Microprose F1GP rule! It sure took a lot of time getting the car setups right. Loved every minute of playing it! :)

  • I stll have this and it still works!!!!!

    Great fun this game

  • holy fuck, this brings back great memories. having to rename the driver was annoying but well worth it

  • now it's maybe laughable in graphic terms, but at times ( 92 ) that was the first ever F1 simulation ... and having played it it's very realistic drive, with already some good set ups

    only bad point : no F1 licence so you had to rename all the drivers, and the only retirement you get were from crash > or front/rear wing ... and driving in the wet was fun :)

  • Is it a game or a TV program?

  • thats a computer game...early 90's

  • wow i love the music at the start which is obviously a rip off of fleetwood macs the chain

  • That's probably because the BBC used 'The Chain' as the opening theme for their coverage of Formula one from 1978 to 1997.

  • Could anybody send me the intro music in midi or somethon else? I want to repair it to sound well, than the mid sounds...

  • The animation at the end makes me all sad :(

  • F1gp 5 now.

  • epic sound :D

  • WOW !!! :P

  • A blast from the past! Great game - the rain effects were good too!

  • I Love This Game

  • i love this game i have pt 2,3 and also 4, very shitty that there will be never pt 5 cause sony ownz f1 licences, but good that there are many downloads avaible online for keep it up to date :)

  • i love this game i have pt 2,3 and also 4, very shitty that there will be never pt 5 cause sony ownz f1 licences, but good that there are many downloads avaible online for keep it up to date :)

  • It was my passion! Hours and hours and hours and hours... Thanx to post!

  • wish i still had this

  • Greatest game on the Amiga. The Multiplayer was the best on the game.

  • thats completly right,you can play that game on DOS Box emulator for PC

  • cool video

  • The Granprixgames Series are the most populair raving games ever!!!

  • raving...im sure they are. lol

  • Why is everything about the PC version better than the Amiga but the SOUND? It's like they mixed up the sound files in the factory.

  • I don't remember the sound being like this, was a bit more raspy. It could be the soundcard that its using/emulating?

  • oh my god!!! memorys!! we played that with 5 to 7 players on one pc :D

  • so funny... the hits looked like fart sounds...LOL

  • Wow i remember playing this when I was 6 in the mid late 90s, on our rather poor PC, its amazing how much has changed!

  • Exactly the same - with a joystick of all things!

  • go, carlos sanchez, go

  • Wow...we really grew in technology :P

  • lol! ahhh the game tht got me into F1, how i wud love to go back to being 8 years old agen and playing this for hours. The good old days!!!

  • Kurt Langer, Robert Davies, Carlos Sanchez

    haha all those names! great game (for those days)

  • my dad used to play this when i was a kid, you know where to buy it from, i looked everywhere for it!

  • You have to love the BLATANT rip off intro music of the then F1 TV theme... Fleetwood Mac's the Chain.

  • so many memories. I used to play this game in 1994 on an average of 10 hours per weekend.

    100% race length. full qualif. damages on..

  • i love GP Series.

    GP4 Rulez!

  • Where can i get this game?

  • I can send you the game. Pick me up on youtube for friend and i send you my msn adress in private message.

  • can you please send me the game too

  • Do you buy it or do you get it online?

  • great stuff. i used to play this game a lot! new f1 games will never have the flair and atmosphere of these games...

  • Its funny when u see things change man..Dat was best graphic on its dayz

  • What I would have given for a framerate like this on the Amiga!

  • back then a game like that was like gtr2,gtl,rfactor

  • I had the original on amiga :D

  • nice end... XD

  • yeah. great memories with this "simulator"!! lot of times of fun!!

  • Are you blind ?

    You played soccer with that Leton House!!!

    Poor Ivan Capelli...

  • I think it was Mauricio Gugelmin... haha.. Leyton House the best!

    Great game. Geoff Crammond started off with the formula 1 games on the Acorn BBC with the game called Revs. Also a classic...

  • Revs simulated F3 I think, but it was great for the time.

  • It's not fuckin' dodgems! And this isn't the original version. The original was on the Amiga console.

  • old memories

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