rec.autos.simulators

Papyrus Publishing, Inc.
35 Medford Street, Somerville, MA  02143

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 18, 1994
Contact:    Ms. Ann Marie Gianantoni
Phone:  (617) 868-5440 x165
FAX:    (617) 868-5110

IndyCar (TM) Racing Wins SPA "Codie" Award For Best Sports Program

"The next best thing to sitting in a real IndyCar and racing at 200 mph."
-Stefan Johansson, 1992 IndyCar Rookie Of The Year

        Somerville, Massachusetts, March 15, 1994 - IndyCar (TM) Racing,
        published by Papyrus Publishing, Inc., captured the Software
        Publishers Association's prestigious Excellence in Software Award
        for Best Sports Program.  The "Codie" award is one of several others
        garnered by this auto racing simulation since its release in November
        1993, including:

        - Best Sports Game: Compute Choice Award Winner, Compute Magazine
        - Golden Triad Award and Best Graphics of the Year, Computer Game    
          Review
        - Best Sports Simulation and Best of Show, SCES '93, Game Bytes      
          Magazine
        - Honorable mention; Best Game, Electronic Entertainment

        Designed to accurately reproduce the complete IndyCar racing experi-
        ence, IndyCar (TM) Racing provides the most realistic visual effects
        and car handling available on pesonal computers.  The product is
        available worldwide through retail outlets.

        IndyCar (TM) Racing includes Papyrus' proprietary 3-D modeling engine,
        SuperTexture (TM), which creates accurate 3-D graphics in real time,
        including car decals, trackside billboards, and road and grass detail
        based on actual photographic images from IndyCar races.

        Tony Bettenhausen, Owner/Driver of Bettenhausen Motorsports, describes
        the simulation as, "...a premier auto racing simulation.  From the
        billboards along the track fence, to the cars, to the background
        scenery, I recognized and felt every turn as I raced around the
        Michigan International Speedway."

        Stefan Johansson, 1992 IndyCar Rookie of the Year, states, "Papyrus
        has created a most realistic IndyCar racing experience.  I felt the
        speed, the turns and the embankments.  It was the next best thing to
        sitting in a real Indycar and racing at 200 mph."

        The Software Publishers Association (SPA), the primary trade associ-
        ation of the personal computer software industry, considers its awards
        the "Oscars" of the software industry.  The awards are voted by SPA's
        membership, comprised of over 1000 software firms.  "The level of
        entries in the 1994 Codie Awards certainly bodes well for the software
        industry and for the nation as a whole," says Ken Wasch, Executive
        Director of the SPA.  "The innovation, intelligence and sheer
        imagination demonstrated in the Codie-winning products is simply
        astonishing.  These programs all enhance the way we work, live
        and learn."

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IndyCar is a trademark of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation,
under exclusive license to Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc.

This is great! Congradulations!!! Now how about a savegame feature, along
with printouts of the starting grid, fastest lap and all of those other
features that World Circuit has. If MPS can do it. You guys certainly can.
Modem support??? I'm not holding my breath. There is just too much detail
and data that would have to be passed back and forth, in real time. WC was
horrible except with the fastest machines and modems. I expect ICR to be
worse framerate wise with modems than WC was.

From: Papyrus Design Group,

writes:

Great! Now let's make this game even better. Savegame was mentionend and
a few
more readouts on best lap and a printable starting grid. I also would
like to
see support for IP so that one could play across some fast networks,
rather
than slow and antiquated phone lines. Stop worrying about modem support,
and
put some effort intot he development of more tracks, a replay editor that
 lets
me save the moments that matter, and a bit more intelligence for the  AI
cars -
those idiots won't pit during a yellow, even if they have only 3 gallons
of
fuel left! They also go thru retaining walls and each other, stay at pit
road
exit for minutes at a time, and do other things that can be annoying.

Apart from these few points, the game is everything the award it was
given indicates: best driving simulation ever.

Peter

PP> IndyCar (TM) Racing Wins SPA "Codie" Award For Best Sports Program

All that said....when do we get a decent NASCAR sim?!

No rush, but please consider it, huh, please?

Pete Fanning

 * RM 1.3 01722 * "***y Cardasians! I just got the darn thing fixed!"

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Pete Fanning