> Does anyone have experience with any F1 management game?
I've played Grand Prix Manager (1+2) from Microprose. GPM2 is good,
though it must be at least two years since it was released. You find
sponsors, develop the car, set it up at races and decide race
strategies, it's played over a maximum of ten seasons and over that time
you develop parts and driver aids and design a new car each season, as
well as hiring and firing staff and drivers.
Team F1 (Pole Position) by Ascaron is probably the worst of the F1
management games and I wouldn't recommend it.
F1 Manager is supposed to be good, it's just been re-released as a
budget game, I've never managed to get it to run on my Win95 machine.
F1 Professional Manager is the follow-up to F1 Manager and got a
reasonable review in this months PC Format in the UK (62%) I haven't
seen it for sale anywhere but it should be released soon in the UK, I
read a post a few months ago about this and think it may have been
released in Europe a while ago.
The two Microprose ones are Windows games, down side is they need 256
colours and you need to reset your screen resolution whenever you want
to play.
Team F1 and F1 Manager are Dos games which means most of the fun is
setting up a Dos mode which will get them running, I've yet to succeed
with F1 Manager but have only been trying for a couple of weeks.
It's hard to find these games now, Grand Prix Manager is on Microproses
budget label and Grand Prix Manager 2 is now bundled with Grand Prix 2,
but both are hard to find, probably near impossible to get in the US.
Stuart.
