Grand Prix Circuit (PC/DOS) 1988, Accolade ,DSI

Grand Prix Circuit "3-lap single race, Max difficulty, McLaren MP4/4, Italy, Monza
Formula One racing is recreated in detail in this simulation. You have the choice to drive a Ferrari 187/88C, a McLaren MP4/4 or a Williams FW12, each with different qualities. Rival drivers also have their own styles and strengths, and to win the World Championship you will have to master these. Pitstop timing and planning is crucial as well, although only tires are changed in late-1980s F1.
You can choose whether to drive a single race at Brazil, Britain, Monaco, (Western) Germany [Hockenheim], Canada, Italy, Detroit and Japan [Suzuka] or to drive a full championship on every track. Every Race includes a qualifying round. The graphics in the game are sprite-based.
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[@searchthetruth1981]

Isn t it un be lie va ble! Im 37 years now and i still had That tune of the choosing menu in my head! I just could not get it out!

[@bcptbcpt]

Same here, 36 years old and this tune was alive and well in my brain despite I hadn't heard it since playing this game back in the late 80s at my aunt's house!

[@DrumApe]

Same here man, that tune stuck in my head for 3 decades, amazing! I'm 37 too lol

[@Neoclaw]

Same, im 34

[@HectorSantiMx]

Yeah, unforgettable. 38 by the way.

[@maicol86p]

It a similar to "u got 2 let the music"

[@danfors1333]

0:44 Great I've been looking for that piece of music forever! Knew I've heard it from my childhood:)

[@jonnmostovoy2406]

Same!

[@CarlosRicciardi726]

My childhood in this 7 minutes!! Great game!

[@chocolateabi]

Bruh this is the first car game I ever played😭😭😭I've been looking for this for years😭😭😭😭 I'M LITERALLY CRYING RIGHT NOW😭😭😭😭

[@badsosen3601]

I feel You, bruva ❤

[@igorzhovtaniuk356]

Same for me

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

You are actually crying? 😂

[@bcptbcpt]

My aunt had both this game and the original MS-DOS Prince of Persia installed in her computer and I played both obsessively when I visited her. So many memories!

[@maxmouche]

Same! Had Prince of Persia also. Found it so bloody hard lol. Mind you I was 7 at the time...

[@nomad8901]

I was playing this game along side with Prince of Persia 1-2, Dangerous Dave and Pac Man in 90's. Great memories!

[@brabius]

Me too!! My fave games. Though there was accolade for motorbikes also

[@RF23232]

I'm 36. PoP was so damn hard. 🤣 And I was so scared of the skeleton.

[@charilaospapamikroulis7855]

How is it going with the epilepsy?

[@patriciogarces6007]

Travis Daye and Bruno Gourdo... what a rivals...

[@Miyamototakezo]

Tse Sakamoto, on the other hand…

[@joshmg25]

@@Miyamototakezo Nigel Levins wasn’t very good either. I beat him and Tse the first time I didn’t get last place.

[@Miyamototakezo]

@@joshmg25 true! 🤣They would be Nicholas Latifi and Nico Hulkenberg by 2022 standards

[@kg0173]

Travis Daye was like Ayrton Senna and Bruno Gourdo like Alain Prost. Nigel Levins was Nigel Mansell.

[@ukrainica9121]

Travis was also good in superbikes, if i remember correctly, so talented , that mr Daye ;-)

[@Heffsta02]

I remember playing this as a kid, and imagined what the world beyond the horizon looked like.

[@Vestu]

Damn! :D I did the exact same thing. In this game and in a few others. I imagined the world beyond the horizon, usually with some hills, mountains and blue skies. It was Mono no aware for single-digit aged me.

[@davidsucesso2419]

i got 33 years old and this was my first game. remenbered the intro ( that DSI effect square was so cool to see when i was 6 or 7 on my 386) and finaly menu sound 😂😂😂

[@qanadaheadlongs2618]

When I played this Travis Daye was my rival Nr. 1

[@RomNYC]

Wayyy too many hours playing this, and clearly not enough hours doing homework 😂What a time to be alive!

[@DVAFP]

I played this so much that sometimes I’d hear the sound of the engine when the computer was off.

[@pavel_endrle]

You can go straight in the first chicane in Monza qualification ;) All the best memories.

[@TheRetroRaven]

That tune! This , together with Test Driver II was my favourite games as a kid. I spend countless hours playing this. Unfortunately there was no support for Adlib or SoundBlaster - unlike Cycles, also by Accolade.

[@BarryChapman]

test drive 3 was one of my favorites. ultra addictive yet ultra lame

[@alexitosrv]

I played this using an amber monochrome monitor, and I searched for this game for ages!!! Thx! Also Monza was the only one where I beat the computer easily.

[@DrumApe]

Amazing game, so many memories - it was my first experience with racing ever. Thanks for uploading this.

[@maxb1401]

Thanks for posting, brings back memories on my first 286 PC :D

[@Niphrentil]

Used to play this game on a monochromatic monitor.... Still this is how I remember playing this game back then!

[@badsosen3601]

And Hercules graphic card :)))

[@kpetrov2011]

Early 90s I have played this game on my Pravetz 16 PC. So good memories.

[@racingfan787b2]

3:20 aw yeea listen to that V6!

[@eswube]

So many memories. Initially I had version with CGA graphics only and it was great relief when I could switch to colour one.

[@Vortal_Cord]

I have no idea what PC I managed to got my hands on but when I played this it ran at even worse FPS and was in black and yellow for some reason. Good memories. That game was a ton of fun for 9 year old me.

[@mradiesatria]

My late father introduced this game to me back in 1990. good things never change, thanks for the memories. Love u dad 😇

[@Bennyboy1985]

I wish they'd made all 16 1988 Championship circuits playable for this game. Having a few more cars you could drive would've been great as well- even if that only included the Lotus 99/T, Benetton B188 and Arrows A10B, as all these cars were better than the Williams-Judd that year!

[@indrocahyono7074]

I remember playing this game in 1992/1993. We had only monochrome computer monitor. So only now that I learned the Williams car was actually yellow and blue 😂

[@martincoufalik9101]

Even as little kid, i already hated automatic transmission thanks to this game. Tons of memories with this one. Soundtrack is awesome for monotone tune.

[@atagkr]

Used to play this on a 286 pc with a black and white monitor. Good old days..

[@vibovitold]

same! and i've never been as immersed in a game (this one plus a few others from that generation) since

[@walterdv13]

one of my favorite game!

[@wraith5998]

So nostalgic that it hurts

[@jgagnier]

Memory can be a fickle thing. I remember playing this as a kid, and not having to brake in the chicanes. Turns out, it wasn't my memory failing :D

[@ivanyunakov8154]

I really liked this game!

[@favs970]

Good trail breaking

[@nequals151]

I think I played this! That red dot on the steering wheel is very familiar.

[@robertocamilo2191]

Saudades tempo 1998 quando joguei o Grand Prix Acolade

[@miguelangelreyesdiaz6380]

Fun Fact: Distinctive Software was bought by electronic arts and renamed it as Ea Canada,now i understand that some folks that have designed this,even helped to develop NFSMW and NFSC

[@helmutloidts5126]

Back in the days, my father got the game from one of his colleagues at work. He told him that he put my father's initials on the side of the car of the Williams team (JP). I finally got proof of the spoof. 😄

[@jeremygovender]

omg soundtrack is soooooooo good

[@adelbenaida5597]

was the only game i could play in late 90

[@davidmagawa7822]

Sweet memories

[@Autotrope]

First racing game I played. But I had it on Hercules graphics!

[@EspireMike]

the first PC game i ever played!

[@RaterisimoCBA]

Played this in 1990 on a 286 I was 4 years old !

[@pedronabais8442]

Good Times

[@theopot5798]

my first racer ever..i was like 8... choosing the ferrari cause it was much easier to handle but poor top speed... 34 now :P

[@Eastlygod]

I still have nightmares of getting around the Canadian hairpin to this day

[@tricesimo]

Ah, GPC's Monza... only 2 braking zones!

[@FabryMercury]

Damn Bruno Gourdo!

[@danzeel]

Grand Prix and then Stunt, and later micro machines, not racer, scorcher was my fav racer games

[@maxmouche]

Ruthless driving - I wanted to see the back of one of the other cars, that's usually where I was ;p (age 7)

[@indrocahyono7074]

Of the other drivers, I can only remember Bruno Gourdo 😅

[@masterela]

My best time in Monza was 1'14''xx qualifications :-)

[@samuelkovanko7198]

The first driving game i played in the early 90s…

[@cliffjumper81]

I had this game but he graphics were purple.

[@douglasmacarthur8482]

Is there any advantage for the Ferrari car? It seems to be the slowest one.

[@Vestu]

I'm still try-hardin' this game in 2023, owning Cal Tyrone's ass. I started in 1987 as a 3-year old. Cal's never gonna beat me!

[@Vestu]

Not even Don Matrelli for that matter...

[@SteveGonzalesValdiglesias]

Epic game and memories ^_^

[@doctorf7501]

Is Monza a divided road?

[@maxb1401]

No, its just the game overlapped with Test Drive and they already had the road render with a divided road, so probably ported it over instead of forming a whole new code for just the road layout. My opinion.

[@Brov84]

Il mio primo gioco di F1

[@wheypro11]

I played this when I was 7. This is the OG of racing games!

[@AdrianInflorida]

If only the first chicane at Monza in iRacing was like this version, then again, that's where I make up my freebies. And shout-out for Detroit, I went to every F1 race in Detroit as a kid, I think this is the only game to ever have the Detroit circuit in it (at least officially)

[@samfer9946]

Trop dur de battre Don Matrelli et Travis Daye 🤣👍

[@alescorpios]

Don Matrelli

[@ziggylee8515]

La Nostalgie 😎

[@TrueZetaThunderBenditions]

bendiciones audio libro

[@nomad8901]

If you stop at Pit Stop, then your tire is exchanged with new one. Your car health is back normal.

[@badsosen3601]

Didnt know what pitstop is back then :)

[@user-develoviper]

WOW! I NEED 33456 SPEED!

[@cXilion]

The Mamas and the Papas!!!!

[@evilash6010]

1991 year Carl! 1991 year. First look and game) I 6 year old))

[@ukrainica9121]

Parabolica is... more swirly as i remember :p, also that Ascari can be taken in a straight line i did not know.

[@TheRealD4]

Ok in the late 90s I was given a late 80s Amstrad PC that had this game installed. But I always remember after a short while or maybe intermittently the steering would get stuck on full lock, and I'd have to restart the game :/ All these years later I just wondered if any of you retro gaming fans would know what may have caused this to happen!!

[@davidsucesso2419]

Never happened to me... using a 33 mhz wang computer at the time. 386 cpu

[@GeeTee_]

Sounds like a sticky key on the keyboard.

[@Asraf-sb1yg]

teringat masa kecilku 🤧🤧🤧

[@endreolasz9768]

Cycles100%

[@nomad8901]

Why Mc Laren is faster than Ferrari?

[@s4cells4cell7]

Turbo vs Na,on plus ferrari was 5 gearbox

[@ElHijueputica1]

Yo jugaba ese juego, era una chimba pero sólo venía en blanco, negro, magenta y cian.

[@darioguillermoantoniocasan2794]

En Pro de Los Derechos Humanos: tomar en cuenta y respetar Derechos Humanos; asi como Creencias Religiosas. Saludos. Dios los bendiga. Los Derechos Humanos, se defienden; no se negocían. Favor de compartir. Gracias. No al Bullying, ni al castre. Favor de compartir. Gracias.

[@ElHijueputica1]

Así es Darío Guillermo. Usted jugó este juegazo hermano?

[@stevelam5898]

Try the McLaren in Monza will get you down to 1:05 (if I recall).