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DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

Tom Warde

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by Tom Warde » Wed, 07 Aug 1996 04:00:00

Does anybody have, or played Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge(BENC)?? I
have. I would like to hear other thoughts on the game. By the way it
was made in 1991!!

Tom Wardell

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Michael Peters

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by Michael Peters » Wed, 07 Aug 1996 04:00:00


Yes, I have it. For it's time, it was okay. It actually had Daytona as a
track...wow.
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Mike Radl

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by Mike Radl » Thu, 08 Aug 1996 04:00:00


>Does anybody have, or played Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge(BENC)?? I
>have. I would like to hear other thoughts on the game. By the way it
>was made in 1991!!

                        "Gentlemen, start your engines"
Yeah, I have it. Haven't played it in years. I remember that the computer
cars would fly up and SMASH you during yellows or while slowing in the pits
(good prep for Hawaii). It's been sent to my old game archive along with:

Accolade - Test Drive,  Pretty cool for it's day.
Accolade - Grand Prix Circuit, also cool for it's day.
Epyx - PitstopII, garbage.
Pole Position, garbage.
Crazy Cars, garbage.
Accolade - Cycles, was cool.
Epyx - 4X4 Off Road Racing.
There were some more but I forget there names as they were actually
purchased at my garage sale.

Mike Radler

SDill201

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by SDill201 » Thu, 08 Aug 1996 04:00:00

And dont forget that perrenial classic...... "Mario Andretti's Racing
Challenge". It had a pretty good concept. You start in the sprint cars,
win races and work your way through modifieds, stock cars, indy cars etc.
Marios Racing Challenge, Bill Elliots Nascar Challenge, Indy 500 etc etc,
were all great games in their day, they really bogged down my trusty ole
'286. It is amazing to see how much graphics and gameplay have improved..
If I only kwew back then..........

Scott

JEB

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by JEB » Thu, 08 Aug 1996 04:00:00


> Does anybody have, or played Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge(BENC)?? I
> have. I would like to hear other thoughts on the game. By the way it
> was made in 1991!!

> Tom Wardell

> http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/2171

I have it and have played it. It is pretty poor, in
my view. Hard to impossible to keep the car on the
track, graphics sparse, it should have been returned
but I hate to put the sales people through that so
I kept it.

JEB in Vegas

Michael E. Carv

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by Michael E. Carv » Fri, 09 Aug 1996 04:00:00

: >
: > Does anybody have, or played Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge(BENC)?? I
: > have. I would like to hear other thoughts on the game. By the way it
: > was made in 1991!!
: >
: I have it and have played it. It is pretty poor, in
: my view. Hard to impossible to keep the car on the
: track, graphics sparse, it should have been returned
: but I hate to put the sales people through that so
: I kept it.

At the time it was all we had for NASCAR.  For what it was it was
ejoyable.  It did have some major bugs, like being rear ended in the
pits and yellows BIG time.  Tracks included Daytona, Atlanta,
Darlington, Bristol, Talladega, Sears Point, Michigan, Watkins Glen.

And if I remember correctly the joystick routine only allowed turning
left.  So you could forget the road courses unless you used the
keyboard.  

Sure was better than "Days of Turkeys^H^H^H^H^H^H^HThunder" for the PC!
Was extremely happy when Papyrus got around to doing NASCAR justice...
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Mike Carrother

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by Mike Carrother » Fri, 09 Aug 1996 04:00:00


writes:

I thought it sucked, and I threw it in the can.

Mike

Tom Warde

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by Tom Warde » Fri, 09 Aug 1996 04:00:00



>writes:

>>Does anybody have, or played Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge(BENC)?? I
>>have. I would like to hear other thoughts on the game. By the way it
>>was made in 1991!!

>>Tom Wardell

>>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/2171

>I thought it sucked, and I threw it in the can.
>Mike

That it does. I got it in 1993 though. THER WAS NO NASCAR RACING by
Papyrus THEN so I got it. I was GREAT then. But the thing I hate is
that you CAN'T use a wheel and when you hold the arrow key down you
spin out! But there WAS A DAYTONA IN THERE!!! Well we can keep
dreaming on that one!!

Tom Wardell

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/2171

George Lew

DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

by George Lew » Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:00:00


>Does anybody have, or played Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge(BENC)?? I
>have. I would like to hear other thoughts on the game. By the way it
>was made in 1991!!

Tom,

I had BENC for the Amiga.  The copy protection for the game was
horrible.  They made you look up some indistinguishable track on a
hard to see dark red paper with black track layout.  Worse than
anything you could imagine!

As for the gameplay, I found it very "un-realistic" to say the least.
Watkins Glen was impossible, and you had no "sense of direction" with
it.  Bristol I think I routinely did 145 mph laps.  not very realistic
at all.  In fact, I went back to F1GP instead....

Go #6 Mark Martin,#16 Ted Musgrave & #99 Jeff Burton - Jack Roush Racing!!
NASCAR Racing!!


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