DOES ANYBODY HAVE "Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge"??

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

Yes, I have it. For it's time, it was okay. It actually had Daytona as a track...wow. -- http://www.netins.net/showcase/mpete Nascar..Weather..OnNetCameras..Oddities..and more.. Stop on by, what can it hurt?

>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

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

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> 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

: > : > 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... -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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

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>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

>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!! http://camalott.com/~sean/nascar/nascar.htm <--NASCAR Racing Sim page