Grand Prix Circuit (Commodore 64)

[@ZeroTheHeroGOAT]

Considering the limitations of the C64, this game is a masterpiece. Great graphics, great sound and great gameplay for its time.

[@Okkvltify]

The main theme is so awesome. brings back a lot of memories.

[@peterarlington223]

Damn right! I ended up not liking the game, but I'd load it up just to listen to the awesome title track - if you left it'd replay on a loop over and over again!

[@kupotan9]

Same here. Even taught myself how to play it on my keyboard as a kid.

[@Corsa15DT]

this one was on the intro: FANTASY CRACKING SERVICE, 1987 (Basil) . Brings back even more memories.

[@joeyalbergo]

@@Corsa15DT dude.... bringing back the "proggie" days and AOL toolz. 😅👍🇺🇲

[@TTOTheTrueOne]

Loved that game. Great soundtrack. It also pushed the C64 to its limits in visual quality and realism.

[@monsterzeroJr]

By C64 standards this game would be state of the art and pushing the limits of what was possible with the 64. It looks almost good to be an Amiga game. When we started getting our paws on Amigas in the late 1980s it was a quantum leap in graphics quality.

[@Straylight4299]

For that time, the graphics were absolutly stunning on that machine. Kinda funny seeing how we were used to play with 10fps and less ;) I have no idea how i managed things like Space Harrier or Test Drive, but GPC still looks playable to me...

[@chriscowey7464]

I only just found out this was a thing. Quite amazed at how good this looks on the c64. Wish I had owned this back in the day.

[@burnattu]

Oh my god what goosebump´s from the song after 20 years or more!

[@samwyse2006]

Yes, excellent music in this game, one of my favorites. I guess this was the best Formula 1 game before Microprose Formula One Grand Prix was released on the Amiga. I also liked the Test Drive games.

[@jhutt8002]

It's pretty sad how technology has gone forward so much, yet no game has such incredible music, as back in the day. This; Hell March, Descent II...

[@paladin677]

I have never had a youtube video bring back both so many good and bad memories.

[@jhutt8002]

I used to have this game in dos pc when I was a kid. I remembered the game music and wanted to hear it again back about 10 years ago. Needless to say I was completely floored on how it sounds on C64... Just visit here now and then to listen the track. Brilliant!

[@VVT4ME]

That intro song still gives me goosebumps. THis game sure fueled my lifelong love of F1 and open wheel racing.

[@thedutchfisherman7078]

I'm 89 now and still have my C64 and still uses it and plays on it. No need to upgrade for me...

[@rhelenius3670]

I'm 104 now and still playing grand prix circuit 💪🏻

[@tnralliart2600]

Every time my brother and I go to Albert Park for the Melbourne Grand Prix we crank that music!

[@randy7894]

Man this game was quality and enjoyment all over. Loved the IBM CGA version back in the day and recently discovered this C64 version. Nostalgia galore.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

Haha, yes - I remember how the term "multimedia" came up, everybody got excited about the possibilities and I had no idea why, since the C64 always had video and sound. PCs were more or less expensive machines made to play Links 386...

[@jeffbrown4642]

Was one of my favorite games for the C64. Great memories.

[@pinner35]

FACT: Gran Turismo series producer; Kazunori yamauchi, remarked this game as his favourite game when he was a boy

[@tamasmadarasz1460]

my father made this game...thanks for the comment

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

@ pinner35: Another Fun Fact: this game here has more realistic engine sounds than all of the Gran Turismo games combined. And i say that as an avid fan of Gran Turismo 5.

[@demshirosan7311]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 don't be stupid

[@mannypdesign]

This brings back so many memories. ❤️

[@rhelenius3670]

yep👍 awesome game...

[@AcidGlow]

Intro music is nice

[@MrQuanticox]

I remember when I was a child and sometimes I was sitting on my ass and just listening this fucking awesome music :D

[@vidura]

Just listen to that opening tune. Goddamn, no wonder we get chills from just hearing that. Never will modern games show such passion as that tune.

[@boston944]

Thanks for the upload - this bring back memories. C64 was my reason to become an engineer

[@pingeek777]

Thanks for posting this! I picked up a Commodore 64/128 PC at a yard sale in the 80's. You could switch between the two. I had this game. I think this is one of many I picked up on clearance at Kay Bee toys in the late 80's as the Commodore 128 was on it's way out. I also had Hunt For Red October and some kind of Top Gun game too. Forgot what it was called. I should have never sold my Commodore. Worked great, great colors on the monitor, lotta fun.

[@Starredmediasoft]

unbelievable how they manage all that graphics and vectors (2 rear mirrors!). They really pushed C64 to the limit

[@debiani3866]

wow i adore the sound effects ;P lol some of these old games are actually more fun then the new games that they are comming out with. this game looks like a ton of fun

[@MSOFB]

Wegen diesem Spiel, hatte ich mir 1990 meinen C64 gekauft. Allein die Musik im Auswahlmenü der Fahrzeuge ist der Hammer.

[@grarghov1]

yes :) i remember that in 1990 i had a C64, one of my friends had a mighty 386SX with PC speaker and EGA graphics - and both platform had the game. I simply mocked the guy that his "overgrown calculator-cashregister" may be bigger and faster than a C64, but PCs will _never_ excel in games/entertainment. Now in 2013 I can see I was wrong :P

[@summer20105707]

The key is to compare it to games from the same time.

[@p80mod]

The first F1 sim I've ever played - awesome game!

[@samwyse2006]

It's captured with GTK-RecordMyDesktop on Linux.

[@jack887]

Thanks for bringing back a great memory. I loved this game. What a difference now, compared to Grand Prix Legends!

[@fuzzface100]

Loved the music in this game. Amazing use of samples and the SID chip.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Man, the sheer amount of samples in the intro track even beats Jeroen Tel's already massive use of samples for the intro tunes of "Savage" and "Turbo Outrun". :O jawdroping!

[@pslavi]

man i loved this game! c64 the legend lives on!

[@tubevolks]

Loved this game as a kid. Could listen to the music for ages and played hundreds of hours. I still remember the names of the opponents, Nigel Levins was the hardest to beat as far as I remember...

[@Locateson]

Chris rules. Also one of the best sim games on the c64.

[@ImmortanG]

Was just remembering playing this game back in the day! Thanks for posting.

[@FlyingSurprise]

The soundtrack blows the PC version out of the water. Love it!

[@wogfun]

holy shit, its just like driving a real car! love the old videos, c64 for life.

[@akira808state4]

I loved this game because of the music. Fun Fact: the McLaren MP4/4 featured in the game won 15 of 16 races in the 1988 Formula One Driver’s Championship at the time this game was out.

[@Teltharion]

the intro music is out of this world!

[@rvounik]

music is as good as it ever was. amazing game with an amazing presentation. brings back good memories!

[@barath4545]

Oh god that soundtrack brings back memories, just letting the game run in menu mode and turning up the volume.

[@Pboy7272]

"Press fire to continue" Simpler times. Driving games with an analog joystick like a freakin BOSS!!!

[@rotkev]

I was just playing F1 2010 about 30 mins ago and now I watching this. hah. I really liked this game back in the day.

[@NeilRoy]

I used to love the music on this.

[@richempire]

Thanx for the memories! I miss the good old days of the c64! Spent so much time with my friends playing this! Kris Hatfield music just owned!

[@badpharma461]

Dave Chiles wrote this game (others were doing ST/Amiga and so on) so it's real 3D (although where are the hills?). He even had a C128 mode which reduced the viewing window a bit but ran the code at 2MHz which made it nicer. What can I say about Dave.... great coder, total nightmare to work with. He had no respect for anyone else which is why we left, joined Core, wrote Thunderhawk and let him slum it.

[@MGoolas]

Even though i dont like racing games this is simply impressive for a system with 64k ram

[@patsfan4life]

Yeah and only 38,881 BASIC bytes free....

[@forceinfinity]

@@patsfan4life Yeah, they were tricky like that. They shadowed the BASIC interpreter into the RAM space, so you lost 8kb off the bat. You lost I think 1 or 2kb to video, another chunk of memory to where the SID chip and VIC2 chip mapped into RAM memory. About 8kb lost due to the kernel rom shadowing into the RAM space. You had 4k of memory from C000 - CFFFF, but that was non-contiguous with the BASIC memory. Why I remember all this is beyond me...probably too much time typing programs from Compute Gazette and reading the reference manual

[@bsdetector6908]

@@forceinfinity the c64 had a full 64k of RAM. You could switch ROM out with a write to memory location 1, to get at the RAM.

[@neindochoohh7955]

@@forceinfinity All the best from germany. Did the same with C116 programs as a kid. Now i work as a developer

[@otreblA1993]

Love this game and its soundtrack! I played it so much when I was a child, but I had the PC version! :D

[@amiantoschannel3016]

Yeah, we loved it too! We then thought to make an extreme, pure Amiantos cover! It's in our channel and we hope you'll like it :D (and we're not linking it here directly 'cause we don't like spamming)

[@otreblA1993]

Amiantos Channel Hell, I loved it.

[@PierFrancescoPierleoni]

Amiantos Channel awesome

[@SkyMarshallArts]

Mother of god ... another game I had forgotten ever playing. Thanks for the nostalgic moment I just had man =)

[@Zoomer30]

Wow...how far we have come. I played that game on my c64 back in the day, now i play f1 2010.

[@staggabob]

Pitstop 2 had coloured bars on the tires to indicate wear. Might be that one? Viewed in 3rd person though.

[@jtpgadmw2468]

当時日本で流行ったF1ゲームのナムコのポールポジションや日本物産のF1サーカスがありましたが、大体は運転席視点ではないのですが、パソコンゲームにはあったんですね運転席視点のゲームが。

[@Fastbikkel]

For me this was the pinnacle of F1 racing on the C64. I got the game pretty quick after release and i played it a lot. Overall i felt the game was incredibly beautiful.

[@samwyse2006]

He was one of the founders of Distinctive Software Inc. They made a bunch of cool games. Shame about the Xbox One blunder.

[@kangarht]

this was NFS 20 years ago. this is gaming history.

[@themiln]

When you got in the zone this game rocked! It all came down to engine heat management!

[@FrostyMonty]

David - I think you're remembering the game "Pitstop 2" - fond memories of that red line appearing and the pop!

[@KristoferOlsson]

loved this game when I was a kid back in the late 80s.

[@GeeFunk84]

One of the best F1 racing games ever! It captures the atmosphere of F1 racing of the '80s completely. The game "Ferrari F1" for C64 was also a classic, you could set up your car in every detail, but the simulation was horrible. This was fast, impressive. I would position this game after Grand Prix Legends from Sierra and F1GP2 from Microprose.

[@merisonola]

God... i remember how impressed i was with the rearview mirrors.

[@Renatodonadio]

The ancestor of Test Drive series

[@duffywolves]

the music is real good, I never had C64, I owned Zx Spectrum48k, then Amiga. but I played a lot at my fiends. good old days...

[@RSProduxx]

best c64 song :)

[@forceinfinity]

I liked the podium song as well

[@videowatch126]

this game looks 1280371283 times better than most dos games and even some recent racing games today

[@zxcv1234vcxz]

I played this on PC. It was loads of fun, requiring some planning and anticipation of corners, as well as gears and different skill levels. It was neither too complex nor too simple.

[@TahreyUK]

Pretty cool, and some nice nods to realism with the cars ... and it's even got a better engine curve readout than Gran Turismo's defaulted to in recent years :) Too bad no-one told them that Monaco is a port town with a mountainous hinterland...

[@DehnusNorder]

So funny that the guy who is now Head of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment unit, which included the 360, was a designer for this game hehe.

[@BarneySaysHi]

I strangely remember a game like this, but it wasn't at a Commodore.

[@brz10001]

Best C64 Theme ever ^^

[@navylaks2]

i love how speeding cars in commodore 64 games allways sounded like farts :)

[@ihmemies2]

Great sounds. Those sounds really make you think that you are inside of real formula

[@patsfan4life]

By 1988 they had a relatively mature development environment for the system

[@ShanieMyrsTear]

Game had such potential. Just a little too early for its time!

[@IlteberIlteber-es3mh]

The graphics, frame rate and gameplay are almost as good as those of an arcade game. It is a C64 masterpiece.

[@sumppu]

See the 1.5l turbo engine, what I've been reading it'll be used again in 2011 season.

[@fardeejay]

Damn , i remember myself playing this 20 years ago, damn was a nice childhood.

[@mrsparkle001]

Holy crap I have this game. I used to love it. I remember when the McLaren was too hard for me to use and how proud I was when I could finally use it well :)

[@Tome4kkkk]

THIS is the version I've been playing! Why 90% of videos on KZbin show GPC with some dumbed-down, single sound tune and even worse sound effects in-game?!

[@Kim2506you]

When I played this game in the early 80th it was great. One of the first F1 screen game. Nowadays it looks like driving in Legoland (with these huge pixels). And the sound , the noise in fact! But C64 users liked that game a lot. Cool memories. Thanks for the clip.

[@jigrodrigues]

Loved this game, so many memories... tks for uploading!

[@Ninuzzo1982]

this is the best F1 Game for Commodore 64 ! :)

[@apprenticemart2]

The funny thing is that in-game engine noises haven't got any better.

[@maxilence]

el mejor juego de formula 1 de su epoca, un juegazo que me da nostalgia verlo

[@eterenostalgia5088]

I'm Antonio from Italy, i have this fantastic game for AMIGA 500 and 1200 classic with hard disk. The version for commodore 64 is great.

[@nawletorre7136]

best c64 racing game

[@Corsa15DT]

maybe second to stunt car racer.

[@DehnusNorder]

Yup the music in this game owned even alot of the AMiga tunes.

[@xxaltered7xx]

big game,big c 64 mi ricordo quando giocavo con il mio amico a fare il record della pista. ho ancora il floppy con i nostri nomi salvati sui tempi dei vari circuiti

[@Nocito87]

The C64 version had the best cockpits. Look ! You can see the marlboro logo from the inside !

[@Bormann8-i9]

Yeah, those were the days: No 3D-graphics, no Dolby Surround, no HD... but tons of fun! :)

[@boldziga]

@214BIgl i might try that but i dnt think c64 would support surround sound....

[@DarthSparhawk]

Never heard that music always played it on my PC. I seriously love this game :) Still play it :)

[@forceinfinity]

I loved this game, but despised the copy protection on it. For some reason, it frequently caused my 1541-C drive to go haywire. It was the only game that ever did that

[@samwyse2006]

It was also on cassette, I've played it on both cassette and disk.

[@usjta]

The first game system ever made was Magnavox Oddysey made in 1972 or 78 around in the late 70's

[@gjc82071]

@webbusinesskit That would usually happen while my friends & I would get into all day/night Summer Games competitions, lol. You still into C64/retro gaming? VICE is an awesome C64 (+Vic20, PET, C16, etc) emulator.

[@nickprince8623]

Awesome game, the intro was something else, one big improvement would have been a better engine sound as that let it down in my opinion, but maybe there was no memory left to do anything better ?

[@TashiroSato]

Had this back in the days

[@diegofernandez2618]

oh my *****ing gosh!!! I used to play this about 22 years ago!!!

[@Tome4kkkk]

Hah, so the IBM PC version is FAR worse than the C64 version! :D Good one!