Damn right! I ended up not liking the game, but I'd load it up just to listen to the awesome title track - if you left it'd replay on a loop over and over again!
By C64 standards this game would be state of the art and pushing the limits of what was possible with the 64. It looks almost good to be an Amiga game. When we started getting our paws on Amigas in the late 1980s it was a quantum leap in graphics quality.
For that time, the graphics were absolutly stunning on that machine. Kinda funny seeing how we were used to play with 10fps and less ;) I have no idea how i managed things like Space Harrier or Test Drive, but GPC still looks playable to me...
Yes, excellent music in this game, one of my favorites. I guess this was the best Formula 1 game before Microprose Formula One Grand Prix was released on the Amiga. I also liked the Test Drive games.
@ pinner35: Another Fun Fact: this game here has more realistic engine sounds than all of the Gran Turismo games combined. And i say that as an avid fan of Gran Turismo 5.
Haha, yes - I remember how the term "multimedia" came up, everybody got excited about the possibilities and I had no idea why, since the C64 always had video and sound. PCs were more or less expensive machines made to play Links 386...
I used to have this game in dos pc when I was a kid. I remembered the game music and wanted to hear it again back about 10 years ago. Needless to say I was completely floored on how it sounds on C64... Just visit here now and then to listen the track. Brilliant!
@@patsfan4life Yeah, they were tricky like that. They shadowed the BASIC interpreter into the RAM space, so you lost 8kb off the bat. You lost I think 1 or 2kb to video, another chunk of memory to where the SID chip and VIC2 chip mapped into RAM memory. About 8kb lost due to the kernel rom shadowing into the RAM space. You had 4k of memory from C000 - CFFFF, but that was non-contiguous with the BASIC memory. Why I remember all this is beyond me...probably too much time typing programs from Compute Gazette and reading the reference manual
yes :) i remember that in 1990 i had a C64, one of my friends had a mighty 386SX with PC speaker and EGA graphics - and both platform had the game. I simply mocked the guy that his "overgrown calculator-cashregister" may be bigger and faster than a C64, but PCs will _never_ excel in games/entertainment. Now in 2013 I can see I was wrong :P
Man this game was quality and enjoyment all over. Loved the IBM CGA version back in the day and recently discovered this C64 version. Nostalgia galore.
Loved this game as a kid. Could listen to the music for ages and played hundreds of hours. I still remember the names of the opponents, Nigel Levins was the hardest to beat as far as I remember...
I loved this game because of the music. Fun Fact: the McLaren MP4/4 featured in the game won 15 of 16 races in the 1988 Formula One Driver’s Championship at the time this game was out.
Yeah, we loved it too! We then thought to make an extreme, pure Amiantos cover! It's in our channel and we hope you'll like it :D (and we're not linking it here directly 'cause we don't like spamming)
Dave Chiles wrote this game (others were doing ST/Amiga and so on) so it's real 3D (although where are the hills?). He even had a C128 mode which reduced the viewing window a bit but ran the code at 2MHz which made it nicer. What can I say about Dave.... great coder, total nightmare to work with. He had no respect for anyone else which is why we left, joined Core, wrote Thunderhawk and let him slum it.
For me this was the pinnacle of F1 racing on the C64. I got the game pretty quick after release and i played it a lot. Overall i felt the game was incredibly beautiful.
I played this on PC. It was loads of fun, requiring some planning and anticipation of corners, as well as gears and different skill levels. It was neither too complex nor too simple.
Man, the sheer amount of samples in the intro track even beats Jeroen Tel's already massive use of samples for the intro tunes of "Savage" and "Turbo Outrun". :O jawdroping!
Thanks for posting this! I picked up a Commodore 64/128 PC at a yard sale in the 80's. You could switch between the two. I had this game. I think this is one of many I picked up on clearance at Kay Bee toys in the late 80's as the Commodore 128 was on it's way out. I also had Hunt For Red October and some kind of Top Gun game too. Forgot what it was called. I should have never sold my Commodore. Worked great, great colors on the monitor, lotta fun.
wow i adore the sound effects ;P lol some of these old games are actually more fun then the new games that they are comming out with. this game looks like a ton of fun
One of the best F1 racing games ever! It captures the atmosphere of F1 racing of the '80s completely. The game "Ferrari F1" for C64 was also a classic, you could set up your car in every detail, but the simulation was horrible. This was fast, impressive. I would position this game after Grand Prix Legends from Sierra and F1GP2 from Microprose.
Fantastic music machine. For that brief period before the Amiga got massive, the C64 was the only home micro which could both compose and sound fantastically. Many people still use Commodores for music today, as fully integrated studio composition and synth machines. I do too. Paste this title into the RUclips bar: COMMODORE 64 "COOTY" Also Google in CONCEPT-SINGLE NET
shortly after beginning, the player realized that driving across the grass damages the tires, so after that experience his attitude towards the rules changed :-) Then he drives differently, have you noticed? :D
Holy crap I have this game. I used to love it. I remember when the McLaren was too hard for me to use and how proud I was when I could finally use it well :)
I loved this game, but despised the copy protection on it. For some reason, it frequently caused my 1541-C drive to go haywire. It was the only game that ever did that
THIS is the version I've been playing! Why 90% of videos on RUclips show GPC with some dumbed-down, single sound tune and even worse sound effects in-game?!
Pretty cool, and some nice nods to realism with the cars ... and it's even got a better engine curve readout than Gran Turismo's defaulted to in recent years :) Too bad no-one told them that Monaco is a port town with a mountainous hinterland...
Very impressive graphics for an 8 bit system (it even rendered the track on the side mirors) . Though I will admit the in game sounds were pretty crusty.
i didn't saw the game since i last played it in the 80s. i remembered the graphic as fantastic. my first thought when i saw it today was like "ok...nice...um...graphic... :/ "
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Considering the limitations of the C64, this game is a masterpiece. Great graphics, great sound and great gameplay for its time.
The main theme is so awesome. brings back a lot of memories.
Damn right! I ended up not liking the game, but I'd load it up just to listen to the awesome title track - if you left it'd replay on a loop over and over again!
Same here. Even taught myself how to play it on my keyboard as a kid.
this one was on the intro: FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE, 1987 (Basil) . Brings back even more memories.
@@Corsa15DT dude.... bringing back the "proggie" days and AOL toolz. 😅👍🇺🇲
By C64 standards this game would be state of the art and pushing the limits of what was possible with the 64. It looks almost good to be an Amiga game. When we started getting our paws on Amigas in the late 1980s it was a quantum leap in graphics quality.
Loved that game. Great soundtrack.
It also pushed the C64 to its limits in visual quality and realism.
For that time, the graphics were absolutly stunning on that machine.
Kinda funny seeing how we were used to play with 10fps and less ;)
I have no idea how i managed things like Space Harrier or Test Drive, but GPC still looks playable to me...
I only just found out this was a thing. Quite amazed at how good this looks on the c64. Wish I had owned this back in the day.
Yes, excellent music in this game, one of my favorites. I guess this was the best Formula 1 game before Microprose Formula One Grand Prix was released on the Amiga. I also liked the Test Drive games.
It's pretty sad how technology has gone forward so much, yet no game has such incredible music, as back in the day. This; Hell March, Descent II...
That intro song still gives me goosebumps. THis game sure fueled my lifelong love of F1 and open wheel racing.
I'm 89 now and still have my C64 and still uses it and plays on it.
No need to upgrade for me...
I'm 104 now and still playing grand prix circuit 💪🏻
FACT: Gran Turismo series producer; Kazunori yamauchi, remarked this game as his favourite game when he was a boy
my father made this game...thanks for the comment
@ pinner35: Another Fun Fact: this game here has more realistic engine sounds than all of the Gran Turismo games combined. And i say that as an avid fan of Gran Turismo 5.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 don't be stupid
Oh my god what goosebump´s from the song after 20 years or more!
I have never had a youtube video bring back both so many good and bad memories.
Every time my brother and I go to Albert Park for the Melbourne Grand Prix we crank that music!
Haha, yes - I remember how the term "multimedia" came up, everybody got excited about the possibilities and I had no idea why, since the C64 always had video and sound. PCs were more or less expensive machines made to play Links 386...
I used to have this game in dos pc when I was a kid. I remembered the game music and wanted to hear it again back about 10 years ago.
Needless to say I was completely floored on how it sounds on C64...
Just visit here now and then to listen the track. Brilliant!
This brings back so many memories. ❤️
yep👍 awesome game...
I remember when I was a child and sometimes I was sitting on my ass and just listening this fucking awesome music :D
Even though i dont like racing games this is simply impressive for a system with 64k ram
Yeah and only 38,881 BASIC bytes free....
@@patsfan4life Yeah, they were tricky like that. They shadowed the BASIC interpreter into the RAM space, so you lost 8kb off the bat. You lost I think 1 or 2kb to video, another chunk of memory to where the SID chip and VIC2 chip mapped into RAM memory. About 8kb lost due to the kernel rom shadowing into the RAM space. You had 4k of memory from C000 - CFFFF, but that was non-contiguous with the BASIC memory. Why I remember all this is beyond me...probably too much time typing programs from Compute Gazette and reading the reference manual
@@forceinfinity the c64 had a full 64k of RAM. You could switch ROM out with a write to memory location 1, to get at the RAM.
@@forceinfinity All the best from germany. Did the same with C116 programs as a kid. Now i work as a developer
yes :) i remember that in 1990 i had a C64, one of my friends had a mighty 386SX with PC speaker and EGA graphics - and both platform had the game.
I simply mocked the guy that his "overgrown calculator-cashregister" may be bigger and faster than a C64, but PCs will _never_ excel in games/entertainment.
Now in 2013 I can see I was wrong :P
The key is to compare it to games from the same time.
unbelievable how they manage all that graphics and vectors (2 rear mirrors!). They really pushed C64 to the limit
Intro music is nice
Was one of my favorite games for the C64. Great memories.
Man this game was quality and enjoyment all over. Loved the IBM CGA version back in the day and recently discovered this C64 version.
Nostalgia galore.
The first F1 sim I've ever played - awesome game!
It's captured with GTK-RecordMyDesktop on Linux.
Chris rules. Also one of the best sim games on the c64.
I used to love the music on this.
Just listen to that opening tune. Goddamn, no wonder we get chills from just hearing that. Never will modern games show such passion as that tune.
"Press fire to continue" Simpler times. Driving games with an analog joystick like a freakin BOSS!!!
Loved this game as a kid. Could listen to the music for ages and played hundreds of hours. I still remember the names of the opponents, Nigel Levins was the hardest to beat as far as I remember...
He was one of the founders of Distinctive Software Inc. They made a bunch of cool games. Shame about the Xbox One blunder.
The soundtrack blows the PC version out of the water. Love it!
Oh god that soundtrack brings back memories, just letting the game run in menu mode and turning up the volume.
I loved this game because of the music. Fun Fact: the McLaren MP4/4 featured in the game won 15 of 16 races in the 1988 Formula One Driver’s Championship at the time this game was out.
Love this game and its soundtrack! I played it so much when I was a child, but I had the PC version! :D
Yeah, we loved it too! We then thought to make an extreme, pure Amiantos cover!
It's in our channel and we hope you'll like it :D (and we're not linking it here directly 'cause we don't like spamming)
Amiantos Channel
Hell, I loved it.
Amiantos Channel
awesome
Wegen diesem Spiel, hatte ich mir 1990 meinen C64 gekauft. Allein die Musik im Auswahlmenü der Fahrzeuge ist der Hammer.
Dave Chiles wrote this game (others were doing ST/Amiga and so on) so it's real 3D (although where are the hills?). He even had a C128 mode which reduced the viewing window a bit but ran the code at 2MHz which made it nicer.
What can I say about Dave.... great coder, total nightmare to work with. He had no respect for anyone else which is why we left, joined Core, wrote Thunderhawk and let him slum it.
For me this was the pinnacle of F1 racing on the C64. I got the game pretty quick after release and i played it a lot. Overall i felt the game was incredibly beautiful.
Wow...how far we have come. I played that game on my c64 back in the day, now i play f1 2010.
当時日本で流行ったF1ゲームのナムコのポールポジションや日本物産のF1サーカスがありましたが、大体は運転席視点ではないのですが、パソコンゲームにはあったんですね運転席視点のゲームが。
this was NFS 20 years ago. this is gaming history.
God... i remember how impressed i was with the rearview mirrors.
I played this on PC. It was loads of fun, requiring some planning and anticipation of corners, as well as gears and different skill levels. It was neither too complex nor too simple.
When you got in the zone this game rocked! It all came down to engine heat management!
Man, the sheer amount of samples in the intro track even beats Jeroen Tel's already massive use of samples for the intro tunes of "Savage" and "Turbo Outrun". :O jawdroping!
best c64 song :)
I liked the podium song as well
this game looks 1280371283 times better than most dos games and even some recent racing games today
Thanks for posting this! I picked up a Commodore 64/128 PC at a yard sale in the 80's. You could switch between the two. I had this game. I think this is one of many I picked up on clearance at Kay Bee toys in the late 80's as the Commodore 128 was on it's way out. I also had Hunt For Red October and some kind of Top Gun game too. Forgot what it was called.
I should have never sold my Commodore. Worked great, great colors on the monitor, lotta fun.
Thanks for the upload - this bring back memories. C64 was my reason to become an engineer
Loved the music in this game. Amazing use of samples and the SID chip.
So funny that the guy who is now Head of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment unit, which included the 360, was a designer for this game hehe.
I was just playing F1 2010 about 30 mins ago and now I watching this. hah. I really liked this game back in the day.
the music is real good, I never had C64, I owned Zx Spectrum48k, then Amiga. but I played a lot at my fiends. good old days...
loved this game when I was a kid back in the late 80s.
wow i adore the sound effects ;P lol
some of these old games are actually more fun then the new games that they are comming out with.
this game looks like a ton of fun
One of the best F1 racing games ever! It captures the atmosphere of F1 racing of the '80s completely. The game "Ferrari F1" for C64 was also a classic, you could set up your car in every detail, but the simulation was horrible. This was fast, impressive. I would position this game after Grand Prix Legends from Sierra and F1GP2 from Microprose.
Yeah, those were the days: No 3D-graphics, no Dolby Surround, no HD... but tons of fun! :)
David - I think you're remembering the game "Pitstop 2" - fond memories of that red line appearing and the pop!
Game had such potential. Just a little too early for its time!
Was just remembering playing this game back in the day! Thanks for posting.
the intro music is out of this world!
I strangely remember a game like this, but it wasn't at a Commodore.
Thanks for bringing back a great memory. I loved this game. What a difference now, compared to Grand Prix Legends!
man i loved this game! c64 the legend lives on!
They did a very nice job on the graphics. Broke the cliché of ultra-cheesy home computer graphics.
holy shit, its just like driving a real car! love the old videos, c64 for life.
i love how speeding cars in commodore 64 games allways sounded like farts :)
Great sounds. Those sounds really make you think that you are inside of real formula
music is as good as it ever was. amazing game with an amazing presentation. brings back good memories!
Damn , i remember myself playing this 20 years ago, damn was a nice childhood.
Fantastic music machine. For that brief period before the Amiga got massive, the C64 was the only home micro which could both compose and sound fantastically.
Many people still use Commodores for music today, as fully integrated studio composition and synth machines.
I do too. Paste this title into the RUclips bar: COMMODORE 64 "COOTY"
Also Google in CONCEPT-SINGLE NET
The funny thing is that in-game engine noises haven't got any better.
The graphics, frame rate and gameplay are almost as good as those of an arcade game. It is a C64 masterpiece.
el mejor juego de formula 1 de su epoca, un juegazo que me da nostalgia verlo
The C64 version had the best cockpits. Look ! You can see the marlboro logo from the inside !
Yup the music in this game owned even alot of the AMiga tunes.
I'm Antonio from Italy, i have this fantastic game for AMIGA 500 and 1200 classic with hard disk. The version for commodore 64 is great.
shortly after beginning, the player realized that driving across the grass damages the tires, so after that experience his attitude towards the rules changed :-) Then he drives differently, have you noticed? :D
Holy crap I have this game. I used to love it. I remember when the McLaren was too hard for me to use and how proud I was when I could finally use it well :)
I loved this game, but despised the copy protection on it. For some reason, it frequently caused my 1541-C drive to go haywire. It was the only game that ever did that
Had this racer on c64 as the Amiga some time later...real awesome until I had Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix series
Yea C64 had badass graphics for the time. It was ahead of pc thats for sure.
THIS is the version I've been playing! Why 90% of videos on RUclips show GPC with some dumbed-down, single sound tune and even worse sound effects in-game?!
Best C64 Theme ever ^^
Thanx for the memories! I miss the good old days of the c64! Spent so much time with my friends playing this! Kris Hatfield music just owned!
Pretty cool, and some nice nods to realism with the cars ... and it's even got a better engine curve readout than Gran Turismo's defaulted to in recent years :)
Too bad no-one told them that Monaco is a port town with a mountainous hinterland...
The first game system ever made was Magnavox Oddysey made in 1972 or 78 around in the late 70's
its awesome, my mom donated mine to good will like 10 years ago =( i feel so left out without it, im not the cool guy anymore...
It was also on cassette, I've played it on both cassette and disk.
Very impressive graphics for an 8 bit system (it even rendered the track on the side mirors) .
Though I will admit the in game sounds were pretty crusty.
Heh incredible how this version was MUCH better than e.g. a PC-XT or even a 286 with EGA/VGA, that cost maybe 50 times as much as a C64.
Wow, this brings back memories.. best racing game at the time.. but a lot better on Amiga of course.. but then it was blown away by F1GP eventually :D
Never heard that music always played it on my PC. I seriously love this game :) Still play it :)
i didn't saw the game since i last played it in the 80s. i remembered the graphic as fantastic. my first thought when i saw it today was like "ok...nice...um...graphic... :/ "
Mother of god ... another game I had forgotten ever playing. Thanks for the nostalgic moment I just had man =)
Oh man! I remember when Accolade was still a game developer!
The ancestor of Test Drive series
The bar above the wheel shows the tire status. You can see me making a pit stop @ 5:50 to change the tires.
this is the best F1 Game for Commodore 64 ! :)
Had this back in the days