Classic Game Room - SUPER MONACO GP for Sega Genesis

Super Monaco GP review. www.ClassicGame...
Classic Game Room reviews SUPER MONACO GP for the Sega Genesis! aka the Mega Drive in the UK (16-bit Megadrive). This is one of the best driving video games ever made, and a true arcade racing classic. Forza 2 and Gran Turismo Prologue 5 (GT4 and GT5) owe a great deal of thanks to the Super Monaco series from Sega. It is an F1 racing game, where you take your F-1 race car into a simulated world championship series on tracks around the world. The tracks represent many real world tracks that gamers should be familiar with like Suzuka. Pick your rival, there's many countries to choose from including Finland, Japan, USA, Austria and West Germany. An incredible, detailed and well designed game for those of us into retro gaming and Genesis. Formula one, beautiful women in bathing suits, sports cars.
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[@nathaliusjohansson2177]

Haha! I used to play this all the time with my dad just to hit the flagman. It was hilarious. Great racing game, especially for its time. Even graphics wise. Used to play a lot when I was a kid. I still remember his big hysterical laugh when he watched me do that for the first time. R.I.P.

[@Whatwillbecome]

+Nathalius Johnson :D me to and i do it still :D good old times ^^

[@rcole718]

This was probably the game that made me realize that u needed a Genesis.

[@michaelgoodyear9369]

Yea. Flag man would fly off in the air still waving his flag

[@golgorider]

The model on the title screen is Mercy Rooney, Playboy Girl of December 1972.

[@Andyc18]

This is my all time favourite racing game, played this and Super Monaco GP 2 for years when I was a kid. I love the music on it and the fact that it actually had realism that most racing games at the time didn't have. Like the slipstream you could get behind a car at speed and also how the road had elevation, it was advanced for it's time!

[@bbutters2]

Love the cockpit view that this games utilizes, cool seeing your driver's hand turn the wheel.

[@WahnTawns]

This game was also in the arcades. Both versions are amazing.

[@Momo4060i]

this looks suprisingly similar to moder f1 games,awesome.

[@Mustaine]

This game is awesome! keep doing these reviews man...

[@GLockStarlinerNumber1]

Playing this on my Sega CD. Are there any more racing games like this for the Sega Gen or the Sega CD?

[@kel7126]

Yes, there's Jaguar XJ220

[@GLockStarlinerNumber1]

The Sega CD had a lot of promise it's a shame more titles were not developed for it. I also like the Turbo CD during that era as well.

[@kel7126]

G Lock It most certainly did. I've got the PAL Mega CD and it shows so much more potential than quicktime events and dull games

[@FranciscoFJM]

Well... there is the secuel, Ayrton senna´s Super monaco GP 2

[@skister82]

im going to go on ebay and get myself a sega and buy all my old games :)

[@atlantaaintbraver]

Driver: You Nationality: Your country Man, that makes you feel like you're actually in the game!

[@GCeara-mh5it]

Your days are gone!

[@peyxx]

hahaha yes fake cena i see the irony

[@Nocito87]

Always wanted it as a kid, but never got the game, never got a mega drive. So in 2005, I saw this on a flea market and I just couldn't pass without buying it, even though I still didn't have a mega drive. And last week (November 2015) I saw YOUR REVIEW and immediately bought a mega drive ! Another 10 years after buying the game :D And damn, I missed a lot. Playin it nonstop now, practising hard to master the 7 gears on every track. After a good week of playing I come to the conclusion, you could easily move from Minarae to the mighty V12 Firenze (Minardi, Ferrari ?) by challenging Firenze in France and USA. These should be easy victories for the Minarae. Awesome game ! Captures the feel of late 80s Formula One perfectly. Looking for the sequel right now.

[@denilson9276]

Nocito87 that's great to know, I played it a lot when I was a kid but never managed to get to the Ferrari lol

[@rickywise9614]

U got me i might give it ago lol

[@tyleracimovic823]

Firenze are Ferrari and Madonna are McLaren.

[@travosk8668]

Hmm, back when this was recorded on a vhs tape

[@Donfruin]

You know when a piece of music triggers a huge memory of something that you have. Well the main theme music of this game triggers pretty much every childhood memory I have between the ages of 4 and 10. What a classic!!

[@GamingSolstice]

Minarae's engine is a SG-1000. :)

[@nimitz1983]

This and the first Sonic were my first video games I got in Christmas of 89. Great memories!

[@kanzenchowa9868]

Seeing just that screen 0:33 by itself was already one of the best things about that game. If that girl was based on a real person: wow she's hot.

[@adamharris7775]

In the Sega Genesis version of this game, the Yamaha DX7 internal patch/ROM-2B patch “Grand Prix” was heard.

[@joutoope]

This game came bundled with my Mega drive system for which I saved money soo hard. It was really a great game. The next game I got was Quackshot in summer of 92 for my 11th birthday a few months later.. This video has been a true nostalgia trip to others too according to commenting. :)

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

I bought this game last week. It's pretty hard (esp. the part that you need to avoid crashes or game over).

[@AlanaAylin19]

Super Monaco Gp was the first F1 game I played and it still have a place in my heart. I've been playing F1 2018 recently and I often find myself thinking about that amazing game on Genesis. Super Monaco Gp. Days and days playing it on my Mega Drive 3. Beating rival after rival and finally getting my place as Madonna.

[@RevolutionTV1]

one of the best! I remember that after u won the first season u had to defend your title. but no matter what u could not win the first 2 races. so u got dethroned and had to fight back.

[@MaraIndigoJade]

I was just going to write this...I wonder how many people didn't realize the game continued on after the first season? If you got 1st and the title, the new guy the next year would just run you over in the first race, no matter what. I always would try to get to him but he blew by you and stayed ahead until the end of the game. Then you had to work back up, as you said. I never went much beyond that, tho. I wonder if it continued each season?

[@ewilliams370]

I thought this As well but apparently he his beatable! Think there's a vid on here or somebody doing it

[@pmnelson81]

I had this game. I learned that if u picked a fairly good rival and beat them early, you moved up to a good team fairly early in the game and you had such a good car you stomped anyone you rivaled. It was a fun game...loved the music and sound effects. I doubt im as good as i was when i was a kid.

[@lukebear105]

This was the very game that got me into driving games as well, next to RC Pro Am.

[@stephencross4277]

still play this on my phone, it's got great playability still

[@Rakiarmas]

I had the same thing with this game: I was much better in this game, when I was a kid. Today I'm pretty bad at playing this. Pretty good racing game & I really don't like racing games (except kart racing games like Mario Kart. Those are awesome). We had this game in my family. My dad & brother were playing this many many times.

[@vorkev1]

When that girle poped up man i released all of my bits all over the screen.

[@ScrewAttackEurope]

I just wondered if you ever got to play it, felt like the exact same game to me with not as nice presentation and Ayrton Senna's face slapped on the front, who then promptly died a month after launch. Also did you ever do the funny easter egg of running over the flag man?

[@aaroncork1972]

absolute classic game, down loaded it on an emulater, loved it , spend days missing school and education becasue of this game

[@jakescartoons6045]

My only experience with this game was with the arcade version. However, judging from this review, the Genesis version seems to be very high quality. I should pick up a copy for myself.

[@decapattack]

I love this game but this guy is a pain in the ass. He just can't stop talking! wathahell...

[@samfrito]

Great video Mark. Love your comments on SMGP and agree. About five years ago my family and i stayed in a run down HoJo on Miami Beach and their arcade had Sega's "Exhaust Note" in a sit down cabinet. It used a majority of the same intro graphics and themes. I raced on it quite a few times and even as beat up as the machine was it was friggin awesome. You have to get Exhaust Note for the intergalactic space arcade. Mucho gusto.

[@Bzking23]

3 people don't think it's interesting

[@russotragik]

the intro song is so... so... so.. CLASSIC, EPIC, AWESOME... remember me a lot...

[@stringanime]

I like when you hit the Flag man at the Finish, he goes flying into the sky! LOL!

[@Wuss2ns]

SUPER MONICA LEWINSKY GP

[@jarekvoice08legend]

Great game! But it takes hours to complete and has no saves, forget about eating dinner, lol! :-D

[@jarekvoice08legend]

Or there were some codes, but I remember them not helping so much, because I missed my dinner anyhow (completing game)!

[@TheStrstudios]

Oh to be able to drive for team Madonna!

[@towelmanfilms]

do a review of moon patrol

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I still remember my first racing game, F1 World Grand Prix for Nintendo 64. It was much more of a simulator though. I got it for Christmas when I was only 6 years old. I played it so much I had nightmares for weeks! No wonder my parents wouldn't let me get 'T' rated games until I was 14! I have tried to play it now though and I am really bad at it. Although I think back in the day, the only reason I won is because I kept damage off and drove shortcuts across the gravel all the time.

[@GeriatricFan1963]

I'm sorry, but Team Rigel (Even though they're from Finland) are clearly a parody of driver Nigel Mansell... "I'm still nowhere as good as I used to be..." You sound like some sort of strange, honest version of Michael Schumacher! "This is the Suzuka track, which I believe is based on a real circuit..." Sorry, but isn't it a bit obvious that they all are? Good review!

[@KingGameReview]

lol! the engine of the car is the "Sega SG1000" , the name of their first home console in Japan. It came out around the time of the Intellivision / Colecovision and was similar. There's even a European console called the Dina 2-in-1 that is a Colecovision and SG-1000 mixed together. Awesome reference!

[@1RiotKing]

Anyone remember that once you beat the game and got Madonna, a driver from Bullets challenges you and is basically unbeatable until he gets Madonna?

[@suttonsuede]

And I thought I was the only one to love this game so much :)

[@desmondruff]

Classic!

[@Skriak]

06:25 I think that bloke looks like Xander from Buffy. How's that for an unrelated reference?

[@billis9999999999]

i win the madonna team in san marino.i go on race 5th automatic i come close the madona i crash madona and the last lap im first position end the madonna team 5th. brazil i go 6th position manual 4. i take rival firenze them crash. the last lap im 3rd possition end firenze 4th. france i take 1st position. go in manual tradmission 7. crash madona twise. the last lap im first position end the madona team 3rd. end i take the madona team for me. now i have the madona team in hungary.

[@jspdrcrmach5]

I remember digging My Genesis out of the closet back in 1998 after being involved in a Motorcycle accident and being temporarily disabled. I played Super Monaco GP one handed propped up on My elbow with the controller laying next to Me on the bed. I got so good I could win the Championship driving for Team Zeroforce, yes I would challenge and beat Team Zeroforce to take over the ride. To take over a ride You just beat a rival in two consecutive races and the car is Yours.

[@ortafunk]

This was My first race car game, I could Not stand the accelerator & brakes being on the hand controller while trying to shift gears while taking corners so I built a foot control peddle which was good for other games too & always used the 7 speed I could win at every track even with Zeroforce & I remember the record breaking speeds trying to beat Ceara even over lapping the other cars & even though I beat him at later tracks they would Never give Me back the Madonna & yes I would-----

[@Relugus]

Fantastic game. In driving games I usually avoid manual transmission but this was the only driving game where I made the effort to master the 7 gear transmission. This game rewards effort. Its also one of the first driving games where you could slipstream. The background graphics especially are beautiful; that scenery is beautifully drawn and amazingly detailed. Very atmospheric (the wind sounds really added to it IMHO).

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

A far, far cry from the 1979 "Monaco GP" arcade game, which seemed to be scrolling upward.

[@alanb783]

@Lorric101 I always remember SMGP2 being MUCH harder than SMGP1, I have Mega Games 3 boxed away somewhere in my loft, the one with Alien Storm and Super Thunderblade? lol, I just downloaded an emulator so I can play these games on my PC with my PC pad, it's just not the same though :( I can feel a hunt coming on for the old megadrive 2!

[@synthem9389]

wooo i remember this game. or at least i think, i might be mistaking it for another f1 game. if i remember correctly, i borrowed it from a friend when i was young and wasn't too good at it but was very happy to find my country (Belgium) in a video game (the Spa-Francorchamps course). yup, i was easily pleased back then. maybe i still am. woops, useless post!

[@spechtbert]

this game was way too easy, i challeneged the first just at the beginning, wont the first 2 races easily and got the best car >_> but i remember that bitch bot that challenges you after the first season and you just cant get him in the first race, kinda fucked up ;D

[@darksonicma]

i remember when i was like ... 5 - 9 years old , playing this game with my dad... took a few tries to beat g. ceara , damn , good times ... good times... dunno why my dad always liked the blanche car , it always broke on the last lap , i liked tyrant better...

[@TheGreatIndoors1979]

You only do console racing games? You should try some PC racing games, maybe Grand Prix Legends or Nascar Racing (1,2, 2002, 2003). My first racing simulator games was from Accolade on the C64, which is somewhat simular to this game (which I never played).

[@misterk81]

Actually the Sega CD version was not identical in every way. The Sega CD version actually has better sound effects and improved music. The voice samples are so much cleaner on the Sega CD port. Though, outside of that the actual core game itself is unchanged.

[@CapitanBizarrely]

Cool man you do a first rate commentary! Nailed it on just about every aspect of Super Monaco and brought back some memories. I remember being flabergasted about not being able to beat Ceara in the second round of World Campionship.

[@CyborgNinja7]

I find the translation of this game pretty funny. The feeling is kinda lost in translation. "Interesting" is a lot more cocky in Japanese than it sounds here, and "Let's try our best" is more "Let's do it!"

[@SpongyWhale]

I too grew up playing the hell out of this game. If you beat it, and carry on playing you are challenged by an unbeatable (literally) Firenze driver and demoted. Great review, great game. Thanks.

[@fookfocketyfookfook]

@FascistFrenchman I'm still good at revenge of shinobi, that game was so hard it just burned into my brain and never left. I do suck at super monaco gp though and I used to be the shit when I was 7

[@schmoab]

I played the crap outta this game in the arcade. It was basically the Monaco track with a steering wheel and paddle shifters! Graphics and gameplay were amazing for early '90s.

[@Andyc18]

I'm absolutely serioud when I say this... This is probably my favourite racing game ever. I played this game nearly every day when I was a kid between the ages of 5 and 9. I haven't played it since 1997 :( But there is a new Sega Mega Drive console being made by a company called Blade and it is being released over here in the UK on April 24th :) It's got 15 games built into it and you can play ANY cartridge port in it too, Japanese, European, American... So I am going to buy Super Monaco GP :D

[@AzureGoat]

Managed to get a boxed copy of this game for only £2.83 on Amazon. Great game.

[@n1hondude]

dood, you have to make a video with ONLY the intro song in full-length instrumental at its finest!! DO IT, like Nike! :p this version is cooler than the current

[@Xepa105]

"What they are really saying is you're so bad we're f*cked anyways. Our original driver OD'd on Cocaine at a nightclub." -- Best line of the video. laughed so much

[@svcxac]

If you're able to win or second place at Brazil in Minarae you could get into Madonna as the first car challenged.... which admitedly would be quite boring.

[@themiln]

Great Review! Me and my bro still to this day have a laugh at the audio commentary when your getting the hurry up from your pit guy in 16bit. Com onnnnnnnnn!

[@HudsonAO8TQ1]

lol i still have this game and a dusty megadrive. i remember playing it as a kid and practising constantly until i could use the best manual gearbox

[@h3rshel]

funny enough, i did grow up with the sega genesis and this was part of my collection....and i never really appreciated it until i watched this video..

[@BrianCostelloe]

Who remembers the two hidden secrets in this game? You could hit the chequered flag marshal and send him flying! Also if you held down some buttons while waiting for the podium screen to appear you could make your driver hold up his head instead of the cup!

[@BPlayReview]

I used to be very bad playing this when I was 7 and crashing all the time. But 16 years later, I finally conquered it (except beating G. Ceara aka Ayrton Senna which is hard and he's the only reason I came back playing this game.)

[@Lorric101]

I should never have sold Mega Games 3. But I dealt with that today, by buying it back, and Super Maonaco GP 2, which I have never played before. Love that you can actually save your game with 6 slots on SMGP2! No more massive passwords!

[@MrEyeballshangingout]

Is this the game where you can run over the flag guy and the victory graphic is your character holding his own severed head instead of a trophy.

[@Pixiez]

I remember I used to go on the D level... just because it had a GREEN car. I believe it was Rigel. Then after some time my cousin got some cheat codes and we just got the best car, a red one I believe ... man that was fast.

[@TanukiKGA]

I never was much of a Sega-fan back in the day, and I'm not really the racinggame-kind of guy.. But I must say that this game actually looks like a lot of fun, and the graphics look quite amazing for the time

[@JoeMusashy]

It took me years to find out that keeping your Madonna IS possible in San Marino and Brazil. Good times... and motherfuckin' G. Ceara.

[@Foloman1]

Great game but alas I rarely won! It is true that you can never be as good as you were as a teenager at these games which is interesting.

[@VigorousjammerX]

the framerate is very nice, unlike some other racing games at the time... too bad Road Rash didn't have this smooth of a framerate....

[@bigmelo19]

super monaco was a little revolution in the racing game world, the fact hat you could change teams and stuff was pretty awesome at the time, and race in a bunch of tracks was really good too.

[@RealCoachMustafa]

Have you played the Sega Classics Collection for the ps2? I haven't yet, but I hear the remake of Monaco GP (not Super Monaco, just regular Monaco) has a nice arrange mode that looks pretty cool.

[@Skriak]

He admits that he lost his skill after years without touching the game.

[@Lorric101]

@alanb783 Oh, have a look on youtube for the footage of the arcade version of Alien Storm if you've never seen it. It's quite different. It's worth it just to see the "Alien Busters" logo.

[@ryanc519]

ALL of the games developed by Sega back in the days were good. I can't really think of one sub par title developed by them.

[@adamski177]

man o man...i was obsessed with this game when i was like 10. best game of all time i think...the one i enjoyed the most anyway.

[@Nihil2005]

I still have this game along with my Sega Genesis that I got on Christmas of '91. This is one game and system I will never sell.

[@gabrielathaydes4074]

I love this game… bought it in Japan last april. 300 yens very cheap! In Akihabara. Ps. I doubt someone beat G. Ceara in the second season of the game…

[@Lorric101]

@reala9865 Ha, you just made that code up didn't you. I wondered if you had when it got to 3456789AB and then CDEF. No way a real password would have that.

[@rad3xl]

this and whip rush made spent months on my sega gen. hard game at first, but the more you play the more you get into it

[@DTM-Books]

We were better at videogames when we were 14 years old. But that’s fine.

[@jimmydigital]

yeah that's the same route that I normally took -- minarae->tyrant->madonna. tyrant (tyrrell i guess) was as powerful as any car if i remember correctly.

[@KevMc29]

Is this game available on the 360/Ps3 on any classic game collections or do I have to buy an old genesis somewhere???

[@avfcmatt1982]

I have started playing this game again as I want another crack at G.Ceara, about 15 years after I last played this!!!

[@BrianCostelloe]

I love how the engine in one of the cars is titled the Sega SG-1000 V8. SG-1000 was the first console released by Sega in the early 80's!

[@Lorric101]

@reala9865 Apologies. I saw that same sequence in one of my passwords. I tried yours again and it worked, I must have erred somewhere.

[@MartinBradyRallyCoDriver]

Senna passed away in 1994 many years after Super Monaco GP2- does anyoune know where we can get that game now to play on another platform?

[@BPhoenixProductions]

I remember playing Gran Turismo 3, going on to Cote d'Azur, and thinking "Why does this track seem familiar?"

[@spectre1209]

Yeah, at first I saw the shape and it is similar to the 98 and 99T, Lotus cars. But realized they all are. :-)

[@Alexis40ar]

Make a review or at least check out the Formula 1 by Domark for the Sega Genesis, i liked that game a lot, thanks. great show btw.

[@ultrachannel]

Great game :P I used to play it with my uncle. Damn! Why now, games don't have this unique something.....