Formula 1 Grand Prix

[@fakofakoson1667]

I was about 6 years old when this games was released, It is just amazing considering the average specs of consumer computers back then. It´s graphics are mind blowing and before some young troll barks just compare them to the SNES which was the reigning console at the moment

[@juhazz]

This brings a nostalgia rush to me. I remember doing 360km/h on Monza main straight because there was opponent on pit road and the game glitched & thought i was dragging behind him. I also remember the security/copy/whatever check that you had to write a word from a specified page and row from game's manual. Of course i had copied game without manuals, and i only remembered word "table" from page 181 that worked. Sometimes i had to start the game like 50 times before page 181 check came up.

[@LUIZPRUDENCIO]

Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4 is the DEFINITIVE F1 racing simulator.

[@unstableordinance]

I still remember when i was a kid turning invicibility on, and driving backwards around the map crashing into all the cars causing them to drop out of the race. Was a cheesy way to win but hey it worked lol

[@RacerToni98]

Best... Game... EVER! :D

[@Bojanmarsetic]

yep

[@njitram00000]

I grew up with this. our first computer had this game on it. The first time ever I played a race game it was this one. I did a 4.08 round Spa-Francorchamps, two months later it was 2.07 Carlos Sanchez (the driver with nr. 1 in this game) owned!

[@ledouche3000]

great stuff. i used to play this game a lot! new f1 games will never have the flair and atmosphere of these games...

[@tonton6969]

OMG I remember playing this game for hours. I would play a whole season with all free sessions, qualifying sessions and full 2 hours race every time. I played 2 times a week. I was so concentrated. Really submerged in the virtual world. Then came GP2, which was astonishing, but I couldn'f find the time again to play full seasons like in f1gp. Good old days. that was world of warcraft for me.

[@TheCharette]

My father used to play this game everyday haha. I was always singing the music of the intro :D Such good memories !!!!

[@BigDuke6ixx]

The pit stops are better than rFactor's, and that was 16 years ago!

[@tonton6969]

so many memories. I used to play this game in 1994 on an average of 10 hours per weekend. 100% race length. full qualif. damages on..

[@twiddlemeister]

Haha... The intro music sounds fantastically like 'The Chain' on the Beeb!

[@ab8jeh]

No limit in the pit-lane, nice. I played this on the Atari ST all the time. I remember copying it from my friend who lived down the road and had more money than me. I photocopied the whole manual at my dads work as you needed it to enter a chosen word as an anti-pirate measure. Memories, from the corners of my mind....etc.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

It was knocked off The Chain, as that's the music the BBC used for their F1 highlights show on Sunday nights. Hard to believe now, but music and sound was a total afterthought in those days. WE completed this game in late 1990 and I think it was released in early 1991 ( I could be mixing it up with the Amiga/ST versions though).

[@XmorganlamiaX]

This was one of my first PC games that I had and I loved it. I have fond memories of that red sheet of paper full of words on both sides for the password/key function, lol.

[@HERA2006]

yeah. great memories with this "simulator"!! lot of times of fun!!

[@leuvuco]

Por Dios que Juego ESPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!! lo jugue 10.000 veces!!! Crammond un grande

[@margherito]

Thanks for infos geffel! i really appreciate :) I was totally astonished by game intro! i got a shivering as music and microprose-gp logo faded in, wonderful, thanks everyone made that game possible :)

[@swpuera]

great video!! nossa eu jogava muuuito isso aí quando eu tinha uns 11 anos! =D já era viciado naquela época em F1, depois gp2, gp3, gp4 e finalmente em 2010 conheci o rFactor! =D thanks!

[@GKOBE]

I played this game so much. Imagine that in 1991, was the maximum. As the GP5 was launched today...

[@njitram00000]

Davies and Rivellini. My greatest rivals when I was 5 years old :P

[@WoopaTV]

Haha, woah! I grew up playing Grand Prix 2 and (especially) Grand Prix 3, playing for a ridicolous amount of hours, and spending just as many hours editing cars and helmets for GP3 in Microsoft Paint as I played the games, so it's very interesting seeing the very first game in this series as I've never seen it. Fictional name in this one? Hard to recognise some of the cars, but the Leyton House and Tyrrells are easy to spot... Cool! :D

[@paulconnelly4050]

I noticed the ‘twist’ on Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’. Hilarious

[@grr619]

What a game... The Original Portugal, Hockenheim, Imola, Mexico, etc. Green start lights, Fix all pit-stops with no speed limits, thaousands of hours lost in darkened rooms to get that set-up just so. Absolutely glorious! I liked the bouncy physics engine, and checking the frame rate on faster (!) machines. Where did I put those floppy disks?

[@Doggy71]

oh my god!!! memorys!! we played that with 5 to 7 players on one pc :D

[@NightHawk877]

I remember playing this game on our DOS machine when I was younger. Now that we don't have our Dos machine anymore, I'll just run it with DOSbox in Ubuntu.

[@Jawz2308]

Still play it to this day :)

[@mekkyvideo]

i have played it on Amiga and a 386, 486 and pentium 60 cpu pc ! great moments !

[@RallyCat909]

@thetwiddlemiester I think on British TV they used that song as the intro, so to a Brit hearing that songs makes them think of F1.

[@derkoenigdesnordens]

the grand prix-series is the best series of f1-simulations ever. its so real and even the latest f1-game (f1 06) isn't so realistic like the grand prix-series!

[@GarethBemister]

Hey dude. Love ur selection of vids. Really jogs my memory of some fond times spent on my old Amiga! I tried to download a game from your website, but it tells me that I require the floppy disk to run it? Any ideas?

[@onfzd]

Me too. But it's hard to say if you look at the wonderful work the modders are doing for GP4.

[@i386dx]

@veilsidebr There was a fixed FPS in this game, which you can set by the game settings. I think 15fps was default...

[@dwf12006]

wish i still had this

[@MartinhoAUT]

Greatest game on the Amiga. The Multiplayer was the best on the game.

[@Jawz2308]

I stll have this and it still works!!!!! Great fun this game

[@si4632]

brilliant game on the amiga 1200

[@CopernicusSmith]

That's probably because the BBC used 'The Chain' as the opening theme for their coverage of Formula one from 1978 to 1997.

[@Toyotex]

I Love This Game

[@nico220790]

i wonder how many hours of rendering the big servers of that time needed to create that intro :p :D

[@Bojanmarsetic]

I used to crash into the mechanics every time when going to the box :)

[@SoulOfSothe]

I had a similar game for my Commodore Amiga 600! Or maybe it is the same game...anyway, Geoff Crammond Rulez...i LOVE Gran Prix 3 & 4

[@llywelyn1984]

My brother would play this for hours and hours. My dad brought home a pirated copy from his office tut.

[@jsutiger07]

quick question: how to you accelerate cause im pushing A and it just wont go

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

We didn't have big servers - we had my 386 with about 160 MB hard drive and I dread to think how little RAM - 16 meg I think. MicroProse in Baltimore inssisted that everything had to run DOS legal, so even if tou had a massive 16 meg of RAM on your PC, the game still had to run in 650k or thereabouts!

[@LieorDie24]

my first f1 game too omg that was a time when i played that i think it had 6 or 7 disc to install lol a funny time

[@56wb56a]

holy shit, is this on the xbox 360?

[@margherito]

i don't remember if there was the roland+sblaster option too. anyway, game was much more fluid on pc with nicer asphalt texture, great era anyway :)

[@englandvsa]

Do you buy it or do you get it online?

[@wonderhearts9273]

It must be an intro theme from NASCAR on NBC.

[@KayoMichiels]

Euhrm... that intro is inspired from the BBC, who used the 2nd part of Fleetwood Mac's 'The chain' as their intro song.

[@JonasRosenven]

I bought a pc back then just to play this game.

[@margherito]

it sounds a lot like the chain from fleetwood mac, yeah :D

[@staggabob]

Damn! So many good tracks that they don't race any more. I used to love the San Marino and Magny Cours circuits and now we have crap tracks like Singapore and Bahrain instead, real shame.

[@i386dx]

Hehe, yes indeed. That's cool, I didn't knew that...

[@luisbarbosa1]

old memories

[@da1452vinch]

This is fun!

[@n45u]

Could anybody send me the intro music in midi or somethon else? I want to repair it to sound well, than the mid sounds...

[@OasisDublin]

holy fuck, this brings back great memories. having to rename the driver was annoying but well worth it

[@armorgeddon]

Revs simulated F3 I think, but it was great for the time.

[@jonathanmanado]

can anybody give me the link of this game ? i really want it

[@mikeyo1234]

@Superpizzabros lol... shocking sense of humour!

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

MicroProse got consumed by Hasbro and then Infogrames and Infogrames pulled the plug on what was left of the MicroProse guys, so that would be the end of any updates.

[@Ramnip]

Crammond hatte damals kein Geld für die Rechte der Fahrer- und Teamnamen. So wurden "Sanches, Becker, Davies und Co." zu echten Helden. ------ Crammond couldn't buy the rights for really team and driver-names for 91' Seasion - so Names like "Sanches, Becker, Davies und Co." became heroes... Really nice game, i played it as a child for so long.. .and when GP2/3 came up... we were experienced so far...

[@necnijmegen5]

epic sound :D

[@aga060]

the sound from the amigaversion was so much better...

[@EmphaticItalic]

Haha Carlos Sanchez, I get it!

[@ENJJPT]

LOL, 200+ km/h trough the pit :D

[@i386dx]

Probably Amiga?

[@DoctorMeatDic]

What I would have given for a framerate like this on the Amiga!

[@Tobiiimnrw]

i love this game i have pt 2,3 and also 4, very shitty that there will be never pt 5 cause sony ownz f1 licences, but good that there are many downloads avaible online for keep it up to date :)

[@MrDesiballer]

Just finished playing Forza Motorsport 4... I feel as if Forza is this EXACT game with better graphics. Wow

[@yesthisisrp25]

so funny... the hits looked like fart sounds...LOL

[@Toyotex]

F1gp 5 now.

[@howdycaptain63]

k so the graphics music and animation are laughauble by todays standards but this was a really stylishly put together opening sequence

[@Vorox144]

Want to buy game but not sure if my pc can run Specs are Core i7 2600k OC to 4.2 Ghz GTX 680 8 GB RAM Liquid cooling 2TB HDD please respond thanks :)

[@kjeksy]

haha, nice graphics lol. love the sound. this game sux :)

[@PUIFIT86]

nice end... XD

[@tallerlaescuadra7336]

si me habré castigado con este juegazo!!

[@asterousia]

can you please send me the game too

[@flattyre]

The animation at the end makes me all sad :(

[@Prof.Mokster57]

where to get this game?cos i have a better game you know.......

[@Supersonic_racing]

the cars get damaged, not even gran turismo has this feature !

[@TheFormula12011]

is sheats el game of sheats

[@Thaiury]

worse in 1st version. You already saw the 4 updated to 2009? this game is classic, but most current version =) sorry bad english i use google translator

[@jabol123456789]

WOW !!! :P

[@lbeimagen]

este juego debe ser del año 1993

[@paronomasiaster]

It's not fuckin' dodgems! And this isn't the original version. The original was on the Amiga console.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Cheeky monkey. It would be great if Crammond did a new F1 game. I think he's too rich and lazy these days. It was very playable though - a great and fun game for its time although it didn't have the contact physics that Papyrus' Indycar game had.

[@roolabil]

c'etait realiste pour l'epoque

[@kjeksy]

raving...im sure they are. lol

[@IschaBijl]

6:26

[@SouthwesternEagle]

Just search for the game with the term "abandonware" on google. That's how I found it. I'm not going to advertise any sites here.

[@BigDuke6ixx]

Best ever? Don't be silly!

[@Skellingtor97]

have you guys ever smoked Duckhams? its better Rothmans

[@jimmysnailshoes]

Bring back estoril

[@georgeregio2002]

1991: 2:51 2:55 3:11 3:12 6:02 6:06 6:11 6:16 6:18 6:24 6:57

[@RainbowDashMusic]

Amiga version far better, especially the sound.

[@i386dx]

Check my website to download the game...

[@anttirautelainen253]

XD THAT START XDDDDD. STUPID MUSIC AND STUPID LOOKING MAN WEARING HELMET XDDDDD LIKED!

[@St1nky0815]

The sound is on my version very better