Microprose Grand Prix (Atari ST) - A great CPU overtaking !

This game is 17 years old, but don't think it's old-fashioned ! The winner had already crossed the finish line, but behind, the battle for 2nd place was amazing against 2 cars driven by the computer. You're in the 3rd's cockpit, the 2nd is just ahead, and he's ready to lap another car... But look at what the 3rd does !

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• video
• game
• microprose
• grand
• prix
• 1991
• atari
• 1040
• ST

[charlieflint]

I always preferred the Atari ST version to the Amiga version, it moved faster and IMO, the engine sound was far more realistic compared to the stepped loop digitised effort on the Amiga.

Good days! Thanks for the upload :-)

[nasoszeppos]

I can't believe that I used to play FULL races on this. TWO whole hours using a one-button joystick ffs. My thumb was so numb after the race, I can still remember it.

And I also wanted SO BAD the original manual of the game that I was willing to spend LOTS of money to buy the PC or Atari version, only for the manual (although I was playing on a Commodore Amiga500).

Best racing sim for years!

[cant1rac]

@meowmmmmm its likely the 1989 ste could have equaled the quality of the scrolling & in game sound off the 1987 amiga 500 if atari had created the right conditions for developers. they'd have released the falcon in 92 gaining the performance crown back over the amiga 1200.

the amiga 1000 although technically superior didnt have any over flow protection in its os & far too little ram, at twice the price & needing costly upgrades, the st was more practical & sucessful until the 500

[cant1rac]

@meowmmmmm was a shame for the ste, atari was pumping out cut price stfm package for £149 underscutting any possible reasonable games development for the new blitter and sound capablities, these packages got cut to £99.

meaning a games developer would have been commercially suicidal to ignore the huge selling number of stfm's and make incompatiable games.

the majority of what we got was ste enhanced that offered limited improvements in sound and scrolling over the standard st version

[AmstradExin]

@meowmmmmm The Blitter is not used for drawing polygons, but maybe for blanking the screen. Also, using the blitter gives not a huge advantage. Memory block transfer done by the cpu is already faster on a 16Mhz 68030...

[Sisound]

I had this game's sequel!

It was amazing. Took about 10 minutes to load each time, but amazing.

[MrSelectrix]

I loved this game and still play it sometimes on Steem, the atari ST emulator! Nice nostalgic feeling about it!

[meowmmmmm]

@charlieflint I agree. The Amiga was generally better at Platform games and music (not Midi), but the ST annihilated the Amiga when it came to 3D, especially when all the Amiga fans claim the Amiga Blitter was much more powerful at rendering polygons compared to the 68000. Now I want to see this remade for the STE so it can get more oomph out of its Blitter Chip.

[jakubkrcma]

@rugga Yep, it was in the sequels as well.

[CoolDudeClem]

Now it just seems crazy how back in those days we all thought it was so cool and hi-teck to have 3D polygon graphics moving at just a few frames per second!

[MickeyKnox]

@rugga exactly