MicroProse - Grand Prix 1 - 1992

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Fantastic comments on here. I was the main artist on Atari, Amiga and PC, with some juniors coming in later to do things like the maps and other bits. I prefer the Amiga intro as it required more ingenuity to put it together. The PC intro was my first attempt ever at animating a 3D scene (other than flying logos)

[@sir_micho]

Hey mate. Thank you for making this game. It was a lot of fun.

[@LordKled]

Man, I owe you hours and hours and hours of fun with this.

[@jins86]

Thank you people for making this great game! I was just a little kid when this came out, but it very well might be that without this game(and gp2) I wouldn't now be making games for a living. The editable team and driver names in this game were already a tiny nudge in the right direction for me. Awakening an urge to tinker and modify. When gp2 and the unofficial editor came about I started making my own car sets and that's where it really started for me. First modifying existing games and then finally moving on to making games of my own.

[@Heffsta02]

duuude, I remember how much that 3d animation blew my tiny mind, it looked so real back in the day. Great job.

[@MarcoStillSeasonsCattaneo]

Dude, thank you for your work! I spent the best times of my life (childhood) dreaming with videogames, and this one was one of the best games I ever played on Amiga (and pc). Thanks a lot!

[@The_Big_Dawg]

I used to RPG this game… practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and race on Sunday. Different race each week. Loved it.

[@ScootDaVoot]

im sorry. what does the rpg stand for

[@youtube.4fun]

@@ScootDaVoot role playing game. He was talking that he practically assumed the position of a real driver simulating the times and dates which was really good, I've done the same.

[@aiko150781]

One of the best games ever. Played it for hundreds of hours when i was a teenager. Thanks for posting!

[@frankserpico2544]

me too

[@automotive474]

I was a hardcore F1 fan back then and I was absolutely blown away by the realism in this game.

[@mrpositronia]

One of the best features of this game was the multiplayer 'time-share'. One player gets X amount of laps, then another, and so on. My dad and I used to play this non-stop.

[@wildanS]

Miss the old days, I was happy with so little.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Our imagination and overal abstract thought was much, much stronger than. We filled in the gaps, and didn't complain, given that before this was C64 and Atari for me.

[@Michelangelo78]

I have spent so much time with this game, one of the greatest racing games ever. So much ahead of it's time.

[@PlanetNr4]

33 year old game... I still love this. Gotta find out if my old 386DX still works...

[@charliechaz1982]

This game even had workable flag conditions and marshalls (something codemasters didn't add until about 2012) real sim damage, toggle cameras and drivers on replays to view the field, again something Codemasters didn't add until this last decade. Geoff Crammond Grand Prix was way ahead of it's time. I plugged in my old amiga and played this recently and it's still just as I remember it and brilliant to play.

[@SonicMrSumo]

This game was way ahead of its time. Suggested racing line, auto-braking, auto-accelerating...amazing! I was addicted in the early '90s. Thanks for sharing.

[@togalogs]

The graphics may look rubbish now and the physics limited but in the early 90s this game made me feel like a real F1 driver - no F1 game since (apart from GP2 and GP3) has come close!

[@LogiForce86]

Geoff Crammond was a beast of a game programmer. I and the whole sim racing world with me I am sure do wish that he would just simply return just ONE time to make one last beast of a GRAND PRIX 5. A new one that will leave all other modern racing titles to chase it for another two or three decades perhaps. One thing that no other game has ever replicated, not one racing sim, is the fact that if you crashed or broke down that your car would be pushed and then hoisted up in the air for removal. This whilst a yellow flag situation was going on. I don't remember a single game doing that since.

[@redplague]

Loved this game. Spent a whole summer playing it while listening the radio. Some might say that it was a wasted summer but I had a great time. I remember there was a card with it with the proper teams and drivers so you could enter them in. I used to have races at 100% length and I think I managed to get good enough to play it at the highest difficulty level.

[@Romanplaystation]

Time spent doing the things you love, is never time wasted. You do you, friend. Until the day you no longer can. 👊

[@togalogs]

I was 4-5 seconds faster than the AI at certain tracks, so I had a little rule that I'd run zero front wing and the hardest tyres. I went through every race with a spreadsheet and worked out what was needed to slow me down to give them half a chance before the start of a season. Converted my under bed wardrobe into a driving 'sim' complete with old car seat and early Atari steering yoke and pedals. Even went as far as wearing a second hand bike helmet with weights duck taped to the side for G-force effect. I was in racing heaven.

[@GarthVonMaraner]

I remember memorizing the tracks in this game and I watched the real grand prix on TV - when the camera went to cockpit view I knew when the next curve of chicane would be. Classic game.

[@theauldscientist]

I played this as a 10 years old constantly. 25 years later and I still remember every single corner of Phoenix before the video reaches it. Ahhhh, misspent youth 😂🏎

[@ianetchells7358]

I loved the multiplayer mode that let each player take turns in the driving seat. Great for spectating over your friend's shoulder...and laughing at their mistakes.

[@LordandGodofYouTube]

This was cutting edge back in the day, spent a lot of hours on this game.

[@AkiraUema]

OMG! This game brings me good memories!

[@mampe8898]

Same 😅😅😅😅

[@matthiaspuch9752]

Crazy if you think about the fact that as a tech-savy person back in the time, you couldn't really imagine how graphics for a racing game couldn't really get that much more realistic. :D

[@JaymoIRL]

What a fantastic game this was. It came back in my head as my son is playing F1 now. We played an entire season one summer holiday. There were 4 of us.

[@RobkReacts]

loved playing this vbs a friend over network was awesome good times

[@Stephenpicci]

I can honestly say, this game had more realism and detail than most other F1 games that followed it afterwards!

[@Zoundshine]

Start of the best F1 game series ever made!

[@mattscomp]

This game was so very good I became a big fan of F1 for a long time. I used to recreate entire seasons in the game and see how well I could do. There was some unofficial editor for the drivers plus team colours etc. I was obsessed. Great memories. 👍

[@boykeramdhani2087]

I played this game mostly with helmets on lol. Memorable 92-95

[@AKINPORTUGAL]

i have spent so many hours in this game.... Thank you bro !!!

[@Napostriouf]

You're welcome! :^)

[@michaelellams9105]

I had a 386dx AMD with 2 meg ram and to run this game it needed 4meg ram so $200 later I had a 4 meg of ram machine it was more expensive because there had been a earthquake in Japan a couple of months before I needed it but I have so many memories of this game it was the bees knees so glad to see some footage of it and can show others who will never see it.

[@5punkybob]

I was 7 when this came out and I used to play it daily.. when I heard that intro music goosebumps!!!

[@youtube.4fun]

This is probably the only F1 game that I've had the time and patience to play in the hardest and realistic level, tuned the car adequately each race and ran a full championship with 100% laps. I've loved to play this, I was 6 years old in that time and was super competitive already, trying to beat my uncle (who was a professional racing driver) records.

[@maurocandiago4869]

This game changed my life ❤

[@R2JD2]

I absolutely loved this game. One of my favourite games of all time and ignited my passion for Formula 1! Still watch today. Even though today’s games are much more realistic etc they just don’t have the magic of the Geoff Crammond serious. Geoff-what an absolute legend.

[@GodlessGrandpa]

Still remember when I first played this on my Amiga. Best racing series of games

[@jbassguy571]

Spent hundreds of hours on this game and it's sequel. Good times.

[@maasmarco]

I missed exams because of this :)

[@1teamski]

The ORIGINAL F1 sim. A true classic in every sense of the word.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Funny thing is, I STILL remember this track. The game had a more phisical quality to it, it was like it represented an abstract minimalistic artistic vision of what objects are, and sometimes more than with modern digital art, it is pretty much a mesh of so many detail we get lost in it, whereas the world does have way more space, and objects feel different when viewed in real life, and this minimalistic aspect of driving captured the essence of what the trajectory and phisics of racing are in a more visceral way, than the sensatory explostion that are some modern detailed graphics.

[@mcnuggets8819]

Which circuit is this?

[@igotmyheadstuckinapumpkin5154]

@@mcnuggets8819 Phoenix, USA 1st race of the 1991 season

[@DarkSlayer010]

Doing 200km/h+ in the pit lane, those were the days. I remember playing this and thinking how it was such an amazing racing game. Now when I look at it after playing F1 2021…oh boy!

[@senna197488]

The soundtrack is the end of the music : The chain . You can hear it on : Gardian of the gakaxy .

[@grathapilot]

'The Chain' was used as the theme tune to the BBC's F1 coverage at the time this game was made, which is why they copied it for the game.

[@multiio1424]

Played this as a kid, this game was the real deal! Once you started playing it, you knew that most of the other "racing" games were just toys. This one had some real physics, realistic handling (at least it felt that way), all the real F1 tracks modeled accurately in the game so you could drive real lap times that were immediately comparable to what the real F1 drivers achieved on the real thing. You even tended lose the track or crash the car at the same corners and walls as in reality. I heard that Michael Schumacher used this game to familiarize himself with all the tracks. That tells you something! 😎

[@automotive474]

You have to be fair, Papyrus Indianapolis 500 had pretty good physics, too. The driver that used this to learn tracks was Jacques Villeneuve, he had seriously good results his first year and said that "a video game" helped him learn the track layout in advance. Other drivers thought this was laughable at the time. But nobody was laughing at the end of the season, he did really well. The game is presumed to be GP2, since it was the best sim available at the time with the tracks he'd be interested in. Later, Jacques would become World Champion.

[@alainjosserand6785]

Great game. It really provided the feeling of speed. I played 2 full seasons 100% length (no aid - 100% victories saison 2). I could feel the tires slip in curves and feel about them. I was able to guess I was down 0.2 seconds on a 1'30" lap. In this game, you were constantly struggling against time, and every 0.1 second chunk could be measured.

[@iain8837]

Played this and no. 2 loads, I swear I enjoyed this more at the time than current racing stuff. First gear takes a beating in this vid!

[@neelshattingh4930]

I ordered it before it came out and the store phoned me to pick it up. I remember rushing over the moment I got the call. I played all 4 versions. To think, back then we were told we will never be able to make a living as a Sim racer. Too bad I listened.

[@llSuperSnivyll]

I had no idea GP1 already had the option to see the ideal racing line. Wouldn't be surprised if it were the first racing game to ever include such a thing.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Played many times with my brother opposing each other. Cool thing was, there was no split screen, each had x number of laps then went into automatic mode and the other one took over his car. It was pretty exciting, and more nail bitting than you might think.

[@mammouthlafouinne3678]

Man this game was a slap in the face back then !

[@hectormugwump5530]

This must have blown some minds in '92!

[@waste4245]

Came here to have a look after Kazunori Yamauchi's words about it, definitely can understand why this gets the respect :-)

[@Robin_S78]

This game brings back the best memories! Loved it so much!

[@fgbraz87]

It drived me crazy for at least 2 times when i gained a big distance ahead of my dad, then we changed places and my driver crashed with no reason at all. I was 5 or 6 years old and remember of accusing my dad of some kind of hacking into the game, hahaha...

[@mickoholland1]

I played this! HA its hard to believe how far graphics have come.

[@AlexOoiue]

Childhood well spent

[@qfina]

What a great game this was

[@MrNunny77]

Did a few all nighters on this as a kid.

[@MD76-JPM]

Sensation of how fast formula 1 car can go through corners is incredible in this game.

[@atabayman4722]

i am an 89'er. and this actually looks and sounds really well for its time.

[@darranwikeepa7079]

I thrashed this game to high heaven on my SX33 IBM compatible. Anyone else got sick of Robert Davies winning?

[@dogred431]

So late to the comments. Spent thousands of hours on this and the sounds take me back in time. Can't help but notice the full drivers aids being on. Only because my brother bullied me into driving without them! Utterly immense game without.

[@Kittopaul]

Epic intro!

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

+Kittopaul Ha, thanks!

[@CeeOmega]

Oh man, I missed that soundtrack. Did you know that, the engine soundtrack was different between the diskette version and CD version of the game?

[@armorgeddon]

Cω Tham Are you sure? Different was the Amiga version's sound, which came on diskettes, on PC I only know there is a difference between PC Speaker and soundcard output, although this game is one of the rare cases, where a soundcard didn't give a huge improvement in sound. In this video you can hear the soundcard output.

[@CeeOmega]

armorgeddon​ yup, very sure. But it was IBM PC compatible version, which I played. I used to have the diskette version first (about 3 disk, iirc). Later when a friend bought the CD version, I borrowed it and play. It came with plenty more animations as well, aside from the different engine tune (which was slightly higher pitched).

[@XmorganlamiaX]

One of my first PC games back in the day and I loved it. I have fond memories of that red sheet of paper full of words on both sides for the password function, lol.

[@ShootaGermany]

Memories of childhood days. :) I played a full season in 100% race length. But I kinda lost my fun with the game when i found out that AI was cheating. The AI wasn't riding at the lap times the board showed. When you lost the other drivers out of sight they were faster than the AI really could do. I followed an AI car right at it's tail for one whole lap without overtaking to find that out.

[@anythingpeteives]

ShootaGermany You're talking about qualifying mainly of I recall. Don't know if the same thing happened during the race, but definitely during qualy they weren't as fast if you watched them. Especially when you accelerated qualy. Didn't think it was cheating at the time. Just thought crammond wasn't able to emulate everything as accurately during speeded up mode. It was an approximation, but not done as well.

[@lanskye]

What a classic !!!! The first simulator, I guess.

[@Napostriouf]

Yes, hotseat mode was the beast! :^)

[@Mouarf69]

oh man this intro ... this was my first game, brings back so many memories ...damn..

[@IronMetal]

The memories, my feelings!

[@Bennyboy1985]

Played this at every level from Beginner to Expert, won the Championship every difficulty level. I always changed Berger's name to my same so I could be Senna's team mate! I also loved that you could be any team or driver- for a laugh I'd sometimes do a single race as Pedro Chaves and put the Coloni on pole then dominate the race!

[@redsamuraininja]

My uncle played this game when I was a kid

[@1wibble2]

Whats funny is how that intro section had to be especially rendered over many hours by their most powerful computers cause there's no way you could do that realtime back then, now look at the quality of our realtime graphics by comparison. What a classic this was back in the day

[@blackvii2]

I spent hours playing this when I was a kid. I had a B/W monitor without speakers, then moved to a Color monitor. I remember it was like opening my eyes for the first time! Also, I was freaked that the driver names in the game didn't match the ones in the manual, I changed them all!

[@johnny150480]

Thanks for putting that on youtube. Nice memories from the good old 2D days :-)

[@cheapgamer4228]

More realistic than Gran Turismo 5 and 6.

[@LOveERDos]

i had this for atari st was such a good game

[@zorrozorro42]

Outstanding!

[@popr3b3l]

Wow!! Memories! ❤

[@endikoa7928]

I can remember me launching the game every sunday, while the real f1 championship was on TV ^^

[@B1GBUD2007]

I used to love playing this on my old 286, if you turned on the textures cpu occupancy would hit 400%!! I raced holding my thumb on A (accelerate) and have my finger cover F2 (auto brakes). At Imola you could fly by hitting the kerbs at Variante Alta. The fact that you could edit the team and driver names was great too.

[@automotive474]

They fixed that in GP2, I still remember the sadness when my poor McLaren was blown to bits trying to fly over the variante 😂

[@Jeff2207xx]

The number of hours I spent playing this!

[@luderpt]

I was completely addicted to this :-).

[@heexxi]

This was a great game a ttimes ! It's 1991 season btw. Very realistic, and funny to play up to the semi pro mode, cos i played with keys. Loved it :)

[@Javadamutt]

I remember playing this as a kid. Completed a full length season (will all aids). I remember hating wet races! Use to love the podium celebration as silly as that is. I remember putting all the driver and team names in and doing that for several seasons after. I think i still have a score print out from some of the timeshare races me and my dad done.

[@napalmhardcore]

I didn't realise that. I may have to check it out. Thanks.

[@Napostriouf]

This game was sell either on CD and Floppy disk. CD version still being available on ebay.

[@briz1965]

not only was this a great game to play, GP2 took this the ultimate step further. just loved playing this game, the AI, the tracks - looks pretty crappy by today but 100% fun

[@armondealey3714]

I had this game. It was sweet

[@dilawer321]

man i remember playing this game bac in the day, it looked so realistic to me back then lol great game tho

[@ItsTomJoe]

Ahh, those were the days ...

[@gabber_79]

Best game ever

[@Hichatsu]

Oh God I remember this when it came out, it was the mutts nutts back then! brings back so many happy memories :D

[@lesterland1]

thank you for posting this video,

[@RodrigoDigoJunho]

Epic intro music ! i miss my childhood ! memories...

[@duckky007]

yeah man , that was a GREAT game.

[@admsentidosimpresos7612]

For this game memorize all the F1 circuits, that's how good it was!

[@mustang_304]

Master Piece

[@oliverracer]

I played this too too much. EPIC GAME!

[@boneav83]

Ah the memories :)

[@Nexxus79]

The Amiga version of this got me into following F1

[@odenwalder83]

Very nice capture! For the technical standard of 1992,they included a lot of details which were left out of most games of the following years (e.g every pit crew visible in the pit lane) for performance reasons, but which,IMO, are really relevant for the overall atmosphere. Sadly, screen resolutions at the time were the biggest drawback in racing games, because you could only see a curve once you were half way through it ;-) forcing the trend away from "cockpit view" to a higher 3rd person view.

[@RieklinRideR]

playing the dos version with analogs of ps3 pad in ace mode, so addictive :D in this circuit i got 1:20 with qualifier wheels!

[@fbientertainment3275]

Found a boxed release. Found out that my floppy wasn't working. After 1 year finally had a working drive, but turns out lost the disk D. Sad

[@Eye_Exist]

could you please upload the defeat theme of this game here? it was so awesome piece of music