Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, PC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. It was first released in 1987 by Accolade. For PC, it was released in 1988. There are eight GPs in the game: Brazil, Monaco, Canada, Detroit, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. You can select a McLaren Honda MP4/4, Ferrari F1/87/88C or Williams Judd FW12 as your Formula One team. Generally, the Ferrari is the slowest, but...
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Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, PC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. It was first released in 1987 by Accolade. For PC, it was released in 1988. There are eight GPs in the game: Brazil, Monaco, Canada, Detroit, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. You can select a McLaren Honda MP4/4, Ferrari F1/87/88C or Williams Judd FW12 as your Formula One team. Generally, the Ferrari is the slowest, but easiest to handle, and the McLaren is the fastest, but difficult to control. The Williams car is a balance between the other two. There are five difficulty levels and three playing modes: practice, single event and championship circuit.
The music for the Commodore 64 was written by Kris Hatlelid.
A Computer Gaming World review had mixed feelings about the game, noting the controls, which governed steering, acceleration, and shifting all at the same time, took so long to get used to that the reviewer ended up asking a friend to do shifting for...
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