MicroProse - Grand Prix 2 - 1995

[@JoaoSilva22222]

The sound of these engines sound better than the F1 cars today.

[@bomcabedal]

This game almost cost me my secondary school graduation.

[@steveosteveo4002]

Do you still play it

[@dieterbleimling2512]

I still dont have my primary school grad cuz of f1gp2

[@youtubepremium4595]

@@steveosteveo4002 yeah, i still play it daily. Best racing game

[@FCT8306onTwoWheels]

Word... once racing games were available I was hooked. This game was something else though, my first real racing game. Before GranTurismo. Wow the memories of setting up the soundcard too. Great sound effects and for windows 95, the spacebar was basically the clutch pedal. Thanks for uploading

[@rudravisual]

I swear when I was a kid this was the smoothest racing game I had played lol

[@mariusdan6147]

I was 14 in 95, loved this game. I also loved GP1 :). Wish i could be that age again, nice memories.

[@NIGHT8SHADE]

Best F1 game ever. I still play with it. :)

[@andrejrockshox]

sounds better that todays real f1 cars

[@joel.ew10a]

My very first game ever!! Runnig on a Pentium 1, 166mhz!

[@aservirfrais]

Joel Alonso the same with a cyrix 166+ :)

[@magicmulder]

Ran it on a Pentium Pro 200 overclocked to 233 MHz and it was barely playable. ;)

[@Napostriouf]

@@magicmulder Hi it depend how memory were set! (EMS, XMS, etc.) On my 486 DX2/66MHZ it was fully playable.

[@_kev_]

For me, too! Ran it on a Pentium 1, 200 Mhz machine with 32 MB of RAM.

[@RobG1981]

@@Napostriouf I played it on a Pentium 100MHz with 16MB RAM. For whatever reason, enabling the clouds would eat lots of ressources.

[@PixelPulseAdventure]

It came with one of the best handbooks i have ever seen. It described nearly everything. From the racingline and how to brake and accelerate to racing strategy and setup. It was basically the first education about racecraft for me. :)

[@caskinfg]

And all the stats for the 1993/94 season in the back! Plus infos about the teams and riders

[@lcollingwood5959]

It really reminds of indycar and nascar by papyrus. Around the same time

[@TheAlphaDingo]

the GOAT of F1 games, sunk hours into this game as a kid. The crash physics were amazing and the different camera angles were so cinematic for their time

[@Greasyspleen]

Probably the greatest racing sim of all time. It was a pretty big leap from the original GP1. Todays sims have better physics but it was amazing how all the basic effects were there way back in 1995. Moving suspensions, oversteer, understeer, downforce, wheelspin, locking brakes. It even had telemetry that showed everything right down to the the suspension deflection at each wheel. Some people complained that the car would spin out in a "scripted" manner, but anyone who spent more than a few hours playing it and survived a fishtail or two or fought to keep it off the wall mid-spin knew better. And as somebody below noted, the AI were better than most new sims. It was far ahead of its time.

[@philippbecker4229]

I 100% agree!!

[@Bluejeanmusic1984]

i spent hours on this game. i downloaded programs to update the car liveries to different years. also changed the car shapes. missed this

[@vikingsmb]

loved this game, I use to crash into michael schumacher on purpose 😆🤣

[@LeftIsBest001]

I loved this game. The satisfaction of winning a season was just unparalleled in gaming. I still remember driving as Gerhard Berger for Ferrari... and Nigel Mansell for Williams.. those were the days. 😊

[@BlazeReborn2]

This game is so advanced it holds up to this day. What a gem.

[@vladimirzimonja8103]

This easily the best,most realistic F1 simulation till todays day. Car handling,setup,and especially-the TELEMETRY. I have never played a sim that has so detailed telemetry data. So many parameters. The best thing is you can overlay the graphicon of a,let's say 1.26.487 lap with the graph of a1.26.924 lap. Circuit map shows you which part of the track the car is on and you can zoom and compare entry,apex,exit and acceleration of that lap with the one of a different lap. That way you can see where you did good or bad,where you can brake later or sooner in order to understand how to improve. For me,having that in a realistic sim is a REAL simulation. GT,for example,lacks the telemetry to be absolutely on top. Gp2 is awesome,from the era when cars looked and performed just right. Mclaren Peugeot with Hakkinen and Brundle,Schumacher in the Benneton,Damon Hill in Williams. Sadly that's the year Senna died,which crushed me,but the sim is perfect despite that. Dress it up with today's graphics and you have a sure winner. Oh yeah,i want a cut of it if someone makes it and makes big. Other people who like this game,please leave a comment or,like,or something so that i can know i'm not the only looney tune about REAL F1. Cheers!

[@keithneilson6236]

Hard to believe this was 95. I played this religiously and I remember playing Monaco on a long full race. led for around 50 or so laps and made one mistake and crashed. I was gutted but at the same time had such respect for the game. For its time it was a work of art. Imagine what these guys would have done with todays tech. Back when a game was built with full pride and for the player for being what it was, a game. None of this half arsed drip fed every year crap with in game purchases.

[@oAlize]

А как здорово в ней сделаны повторы трансляций, можно было 15 минут играть, а после час смотреть повторы. ИИ действовал разумно и интересно, иногда после выбывания из гонки смотрел "трансляцию" до конца, интересно было чем же все закончится :)))

[@seanlive6975]

Yep, it was largely developed by one man, the legendary Geoff Crammond.

[@K3v653]

The geometry of the track is pretty accurate actually. Never realised that back then, but seeing it now I can imagine it is actually useful to use to train the tracklayout back then.

[@pibedebien]

hours and hours playing this game with my brother back in the mid-90s. Great memories. Greetings to all from Argentina

[@FCT8306onTwoWheels]

The sound is so good. Back when it was still v12s and v8s

[@cadman1973]

I used to play this after getting home from work, sometimes into the wee small hours, and go to work the next day almost needing matchsticks to prop my eyelids open.

[@BinaryReplicant]

This game was brilliant! Really quite advanced. It had incredible depth, a fantastic physics engine and very good AI. Superb graphics for the time as well! Shortly after Jacques Villeneuve entered Formula 1 in 1996 and was immediately successful (even setting pole in his very first grand prix and nearly winning that race), he was asked how he was able to learn the tracks so well and so quickly, and his response was that he was learning them on Grand Prix 2!

[@mrmactknife]

I believe Villeneuve quoted "playing Sega" as his method of learning the tracks.

[@tiadaid]

Quite ironic if he used GP2 to learn about the tracks, given how he never allowed them to use his likeness in Grand Prix Manager and GP3 - replacing him with a guy named John Newhouse.

[@vladimirzimonja8103]

I didn't know that Villeneuve used GP2 to learn the tracks. But it doesn't surprise me. It's sooo realistic. Thanks for posting that fact.

[@ferrari2k]

The thing is, Grand Prix 2 didn't have the Melbourne track so he couldn't have learned from that game ;)

[@Napostriouf]

Hi Ferrari2k! At the time there were many add-on (mods) where we could race new tracks and also create. As this game was the reference until mid 2000's the focus on many new track accurately was mainly put on this game. There were even physical simulator that was possible to rent for this game.

[@MrLeeson660]

Thanku for uploading this massively nostalgic, loved this game so much back in school. I used to start a full race at exactly same time as the actual F1 race would start play it out in real-time. Great times

[@chapurrazzero5930]

NOSTALGIA! :)

[@pagb666]

Even the frame rate is accurate to what we got in the day xD

[@GraveUypo]

well the game is limited to 25fps.

[@nopopolasturber]

Me and my big brother spent weeks in this game. We had a bootleg CD with GP2, Quake and MegaRace 2. All beauties. The default racer was Jean Alesi, Ferrari team. Man, as great as he was, he achieved more with us than in real life. Thanks for the video dude. edit: hail AZ control scheme!

[@SuperFunktrain]

i broke my collar bone in 97 and played this game one handed for about 3 months and played it after I was healed for 2 more years. One of the best f1 games ever

[@aussiemart]

This and Grand Prix Legends, have the magic.

[@aservirfrais]

This is my first PC game

[@lennybuck]

+aservir frais Mine too! the memories ^^

[@gufo_tave]

+lennybuck You are not alone... in 1998, with my first PC, i got this game.

[@yousufbin-suhayl9575]

my first ever game. Isn't it weird how the older games tend to be the best in realism! Would anyone be interested in a GP2 career season, thinking of doing one but not sure if it would be appreciated. the only thing this game lacked was the career modes and graphics I suppose in F1 2010 and stuff.

[@Napostriouf]

Yes! That game was the beast! The great part of this was the fact it was possible to keep the game update with only minor modding adjustment letting the place for a great creativity and keeping it open to more kind of players!

[@tanin5]

This was one of my favorite games as a kid... and also this game made me start to watch the formula 1 series.... and I'm still a formula 1 fan.... :D

[@toutatismoralis285]

I learned to drive with this game when i was 7 years old.

[@MichaelR82]

Simply the best F1 game.

[@spaehling]

the sounds is way to good for this old graphics :D good old times, loves this game!

[@vladimirzimonja8103]

I mean,i had an editor with which you could load the 1987 season and have those cars and those drivers. The cars were all based on the original GP2 car shape but it was great,specially the cars of the -4 +4 years. There were carsets (1990,1979,1984,all from 1966 to then 1998 and up to 2000 with Toyota and stuff. The point is that you could change how easy or hard cars break in a crash,set the grip level,possibility of a breakdown,i mean,i had all the carsets and single team files. Then you had to load the grooved tires for post '98 cars,or put wheels from the ie. '80s and it was awesome. But the first time i realised how realistic is the GP2 is when i hooked up a steering wheel with pedals and a gear lever. Had to shift with the buttons cause the lever didn't hook up but man... Here,i will admit it,yes i didn't have the pedals and the wheel for long but i never managed to succesfully countersteer a car without crashing. It's a go kart. It slides,you catch it,but then you have to recounter so quickly that it throws you inside. If i moved the whell to re-counter quickly enough,i would brake it. Didn't want that. THAT'S how real this sim is. From driving to choosing a helmet you downloaded from the net... Brilliant.

[@MichaelR82]

100% agree 👍

[@Starredmediasoft]

I used to love this game so much, it was maybe the first gp game to have enough physics able to raise the cars from field and not let attached to terrain like the older games instead

[@ponjebach]

And of course I will never forget this unbeliveable game for its time...it took so much of my time...i didn't learn, i played gp2...and competing with my friends, who's quicker, and tricks in the race and then arguing...lol, it brings good memories and i bet i could still set some hot laps ;)

[@Prince_Vegeta_BMW]

I would even go so far as to say it still has the best AI.

[@nimble4338]

어렸을때 처음으로 했던 게임으로 기억해요 ㅜㅜ 오프닝 노래는 너무 강렬해서 아직도 기억이나네요. a버튼이 가속페달이었던 걸로 기억 ㅜ

[@icecreamkimi7002]

Merci pour ce moment de nostalgie, je devais à tout casser avoir 5 ans quand je jouais à ce jeu le Dimanche après le GP à la TV ! Je suis pas sûr d'avoir déjà effectué un tour complet sans me vautrer mais qu'est ce que c'était bien !

[@murrayallinger2830]

Gaming was great in the 90's, when simulation games were more focused on being fun and enjoyable than in needing a university degree to play. I started on the forerunner to this one: Microprose Formula One GRAND PRIX. The graphics weren't nearly as smooth, but that game gave untold hours of enjoyment. Grand Prix 2 was just that much better. The new Grand Prix games just leave me cold. Sure they are pretty, but they are just not nearly as much fun.

[@charliechaz1982]

Agreed, they are not as fun now. I also find that you can't really take in the graphical beauty of modern F1 games because it is all just so fast, it seemed easier on the eye and easier to look around then. My inner 10 yo self is rather jealous my household didn't upgrade from the Amiga for quite a while so only had GP1 and never got to play GP2, it looks better in every way.

[@vikingsmb]

during the 90s they were pushing the boundaries so the games were more realistic, windows 95 helped make that happen and to a certain extent MS-DOS

[@holoduke51a]

I used to play the game at the same time the real race was on tv. The actual time difference between my race and the real race was almost identical. I was 12 that time. loved it.

[@pablofernandezfalcone6669]

I really loved this video game!!! One of my first racing games! One year after the tragic accident of one of the greatest in the history of F1(Ayrton Senna).. having just 7 years .. I still remember. :(

[@onemansview]

I spent so many hours on GP and GP2, insane game. You could also play 2 players on 1 computer while CPU drove your car. Amazing gameplay, very difficult and "realistic". You could not just push others to win or to pass like so many other games.

[@pctotil]

Only people who owned a matrox millenium could play this at full graphics If I remember well, who else remembers hiting the key to check the processor occupancy hoping it was below 100%

[@laserbeak3551]

Fabulous game! One of my all time favorites

[@Bjauertheman]

The AI in this game was better than most new racing games... SMH :(

[@FCT8306onTwoWheels]

Yup, they were godlike good

[@bungle142]

Many an hour was spent with this beauty during my childhood and the accuracy for a mid-90s game is astounding. Definitely need to try and get this back up and running!!!

[@bigmarkdarula]

Still sounds better than gran turismo

[@caeserromero3013]

I still play the original Microprose GP from 1991 on Dosbox. Just completed a full distance championship season...took me 5 years!

[@paddyanglais91]

Ireland ONE Italy NIL Great memories singing along to this as a four year old :)

[@marjansarec2337]

This game was my obssesion when I was a teenager

[@utuber189]

good clip! i got this game in 1995, that was ayrton senna-nigel mansell-alain prost era! this game was very addictive..i always tried several laps to find the best setting. It's so good watching the game in hi res, my pc wasnt able to play hi res with all the details.

[@christschinwon]

Looking back this game was a revalation. Almost as smooth as today's racers

[@lucmoi8356]

j'ai adoré ce jeu

[@dieterbleimling2512]

best game until today!!

[@livemuke]

Thanks a lot, its a reminding of my first race game!

[@hovermotion]

Wow 28 years ago...a powerful pc was required to run at full spec...such a great game

[@JoeAriminvm]

I've played this videogame for like 10 f'n years, loved it. See again the intro video, all the menus etc gives me a little shiver. thank you!

[@kvbrock82]

memorieeeeeeeessss :)

[@twright1983]

I remember first playing this game late 1997/ 1998 for the pc and even though it was 3 years old and now at 2024 almost 30 years old It still looks great and handles well even now

[@JoeAriminvm]

bloody hell, I've played this videogame for like 10 f'n years, loved it. See again the intro video, all the menus etc gives me a little shiver. thank you!

[@Holydiver7019]

I have just bought the game, had it in the mailbox today, tomorow i am going to test it.

[@DarioDAversa]

I can't find my CD anymore ... :( I've spent so many hours playing this game... it's still my favorite (with mods).

[@armondealey3714]

This game was awesome!!!

[@GP_Alessio15]

I remember finding this in the back of my cupboard, covered in dust when I was 5 in 2003, and showing it to my dad. He installed it onto the computer and I couldn't stop playing it!

[@GamersRageGR]

Nice graphics for 1995!!

[@ErikRave]

It sounds still awesome today!

[@mockneymonkey4759]

Golden generation of gaming, so many great titles which we're finished out of the box with no need for FW updates.

[@PapiJack]

I remember it running smoother than this. But that's maybe I didn't know better back then!

[@kemi242]

I've played this game a lot as a kid. I forgot how awesome that intro was!

[@philippebeauchamp2827]

Trip down memory lane. I was so young when this came out (about 5) and I remember playing this game at a christmas event they made a competition and noted the best times. Around Montreal, I assume, since I lived there

[@unstableordinance]

My dad used to play this for years and years, strangely enuff he only played one track, the Italian track, always starting in last position and finishing in first. Eventually when he went on vacation to Europe he told me he drove down the track and told me the track seemed smaller then the one in Grand Prix 2...

[@CoughingPig]

Remember trying to replicate the Senna crash for hours. They should make games with this kind of physics, with modern day graphics of course :)

[@markotienhaara3267]

Played this hell of a lot. Great game

[@holiciomes]

MicroProse has always done great games. I have played old dos games that were made during '88-'94, so infact I have never played this game, but it looks god dam awesome! Graphics are a way ahead of "normal" graphics that time.

[@darjanization]

This video brings back memories😊

[@thegou]

Thanks for posting! A lot of good souvenirs! Merci, tu m'as redonné le goût de réinstaller cette version!

[@flipjenl9616]

Oh man that intro, amazing. I played this game almost literally to death when i was young.

[@MaFd0n]

Even more and better childhood memories! Thanks for sharing.

[@armorgeddon]

As I love reading all the memories here in the comments I'd like to add mine: - I overclocked my Pentium 100 to 120 MHz, to spped up this game. To test stability of the system without having to play it that long (practically 24 hours) I let the game run races with AI drivers only. I ended up watching a whole race that way, LOL, as GP2 has a automatic TV-director-function. It ran SVGA, which everybody was blown away by, full details exept mirrors just ok, only Monaco was a too slow especially going through St. Devote. I used ELSA Winner 1000 Trio graphics card and at first 8 MB RAM, later 12 and then 16 MB. I still have that PC up and running and it's still set to 120 MHz. - half a year after getting the game I got a Thrustmaster wheel and pedals set, because this was the first GP game, where keyboard control was a drawback. - I hated, that there is no wet weather. - I hated, that they censored all the tobacco sponsorship. - I felt for the creators, that they had to deal with the problematic situation of the 1994 season, which they were going to simulate. It was hard to get the balance right between realism and gameplay (decide if Senna & Ratzenberger appear in the game, decide if the partly temporary changes of the 1994 tracks should be in the game (chicanes at Barcelona, Montreal, Spa, permanent changes to Hockenheim & Monza, Estoril). To me they decided the right way on the tracks, as they did only implement the permanent changes to the tracks). - loved the additional sounds played when cars are passing by the external cameras at high speed and the sparks from cars bottoming out. - I still played the prequel more and still do, because it's a tad more fun if you want to do some old school race sim driving without setting up a wheel & pedals, and I liked the sound a bit better and wanted some wet races. - if anybody wants to download the menu music please let me know!

[@cadman1973]

I initially played it on a 486-DX2-66 with a VL-BUS graphics card and 4MB of RAM before getting a PII-266Mhz with 16MB. Tell that to kids today and they won't believe you!

[@bruce_p]

Best intro ever :)

[@Kaizzer]

Sounds better than most racing games of nowadays, and IMHO even better than current F1 :D

[@_kev_]

I mean... the cars sounded better back then so this kinda makes sense

[@LUNATIC75]

9:09 Well that's one way of doing it... Damon neatly gets you back at the chicane and you punt him off in to the barriers! :) These days you'd have a three race ban for that.

[@willj1999-l6h]

+LUNATIC75 I love that! It's just like... Bump

[@singleturbosupra7951]

+LUNATIC75 Imo it's a good thing to get penalized for that kind of stuff

[@MrSavior28]

...still love it!

[@Nocito87]

Nice discussion about the hardware specs :) As far as i remember this ran surprisingly well on an old Cyrix 486 S 40 Fascache. With nearly all settings set to low of course. I´m still playing this today on a custom built 486 system with an AMD X5-133 CPU. Fastest 80486 CPU i´ve ever seen. Overclocked to 160 MHz, i think it´s somewehere between a Pentium 90 and a Pentium 100. At least i hope so :) GP2 runs just fine on this machine. The developers did a fine job for such a high compatibility.

[@Xxx_Kukarachon_xxX]

Este si fue un juegazo, rompio todos los records durante mucho tiempo y tenia algo q nunca mas vi: se podia jugar con tantos jugadores como uno quisiera, la única vez q jugue con mi viejo.. cuando le tocaba al otro se ponia en modo automático una genialidad😂 buenos gráficos

[@TheRmaguire]

God the memories..... This was my youth

[@araregoodguy]

With the better quality textures this was a huge leap up from the first game.

[@alexplaytop]

In 90s it was AMAZING guys!

[@MegaIsmat]

Fantastic graffic for 1995 year. It really looks like this game was made at least in late 90's!

[@DanielLima-mm6xn]

cool! we could create a champ, for users who used to play gp2

[@renamamiya2023]

Geoff Crammond’s F1 games are the best

[@Grafblaffer1]

one of the first f1 games i've ever played, SO good!

[@davidecomberlato531]

my 1st f1 game, i was child and i remember i've never won a race playing pro mode!!!

[@matteastwood87]

Bringing back so many memories, makes me feel old tho

[@AidanMillward]

I can't be the only one, but I remember the graphics in this being hot shit when it came out. Guess I'm now so used to 1080p. Kids today don't know the suffering!

[@dmobile2go]

Very Nice! Microprose was Awesome!

[@zzodr]

This game was awesome. I still have the box and CDROM.

[@Napostriouf]

Yes, Montréal in Québec (Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, well know for race cracking and being prone to many accidents) ! ^,^

[@FoxPopvli]

my first game, i was 5 at the time :')