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New Al Unser racing game

Michel de Ro

New Al Unser racing game

by Michel de Ro » Fri, 20 Oct 1995 04:00:00



>>While at the local store today I saw a curious sight.
>>There is apparently a new Windows95 game called "Al Unser's Arcade Racing."
>>The screen shots looked great, and it said you could race on 15 of the
>>world's greatest circuits.  (didn't say which ones, or if they are made up
>>ones.)
>>I'm hesitant to buy it because I'm running Windows NT3.51, and so am not
>>sure if it will run w/o Windows 95.
>>Anyone have any experience with this new one?
>>-rob
>>--
>>Robin Chung
>>Systems Admin/Faculty Computing         Haas School of Business #1900
>>work: (510) 643 0981                    UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
>>        "Umm.. that can't be good for the paper tray..."  
>This game reminds me of some arcade games years ago. You drive at full
>speed, steer left and right and thats it. NO tyre wear, NO pit and/or
>tank stops - just like these old arcade games... There are 15 tracks,
>but they all look quite the same.
>My suggestion: DON'T buy this crap. Save your money for Grand Prix II.
>nick

If only Grandprix II played like F1GP 1, but looked like Al Unser, we'd be a lot
hapier ;)
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Mike Lask

New Al Unser racing game

by Mike Lask » Sat, 21 Oct 1995 04:00:00

>If only Grandprix II played like F1GP 1, but looked like Al Unser, we'd
be a lot
>hapier ;)
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I think you'll find that F1GP2 looks somewhat better than Al Jr Racing!
(the screenshots are on www.microprose.com) and having seen an early
version running a few months ago, the "light sourcing" was quite
spectacular.

Mike.


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