F1 (video game)

Short description: 1993 video game

F1 / Formula One

Developer(s)| Lankhor
Teque London (GG, MS)
Publisher(s)| Domark/Tengen
Platform(s)| Atari ST, Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Amiga
Release| Amiga[1]

* NA: January 1, 1993

Mega Drive[2]

* EU: 1993

Master System[3]

* EU: 1993

Genre(s)| Racing (F1)
Mode(s)| 1P/2P split screen

F1 (released as Formula One in the USA) is a 1993 racing video game published by Domark, based on Vroom, a game developed in 1991 for the Atari ST by France company Lankhor. It was released for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, and Amiga.

It spawned a sequel in 1994 titled F1 World Championship Edition, and the game engine was reused in Kawasaki Superbike Challenge. It was one of the most popular racing games for the Mega Drive/Genesis, mostly thanks to the smooth and fast game engine.

There are no major differences between the European and North American Sega versions, except naming (the European version is simply named F1), and the lack of a battery save feature in the American version.

## Contents

* 1 Gameplay
* 2 Reception
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Gameplay

The game is fully licensed by the FIA and Fuji Television, which means all drivers, teams and tracks are fully licensed. The player drives in the fictional Domark team with James Tripp (a programmer within Domark and producer of the game billed as Jim Tripp), facing drivers such as Riccardo Patrese and Michael Schumacher (Benetton), Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger (Ferrari), Mark Blundell and Martin Brundle (Ligier), Johnny Herbert and Alessandro Zanardi (Lotus), Michael Andretti and Mika Häkkinen (McLaren), Andrea de Cesaris and Ukyo Katayama (Tyrrell) and finally Damon Hill and Alain Prost (Williams). Ayrton Senna (then in McLaren) is absent due to his endorsement to Sega's Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II.

There are 12 tracks: Interlagos, Imola, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Montreal, Castelet, Silverstone, Hockenheim, Spa, Monza, Estoril and Adelaide. Compared to the real 1993 season, several tracks are missing, such as Kyalami, Donington Park, Magny-Cours (replaced by Castelet), Hungaroring and Suzuka, but the order of the races is correct. While the track layouts are correct as of 1993, due to the impossibility of actually replicate the physics behind a Formula One car all tracks are filled with obstacles close to the track, such as signs, adboards or platforms above the track to increase the difficulty level, and are 7 laps long.

The player can train on a given track, play an arcade mode (where points are given for overtaking and running, and subtracted for being overtaken) or the whole championship, that can be composed by any number of tracks, from just one to the complete twelve. There are four difficulty levels (Novice, Amateur, Professional and Expert), each one of each increases not only the player and competitors' speed, but also decreases the damage tolerance of the car. In addition to a 2 player Split-screen mode, a "turbo" mode allowed to increase the sense of speed by reducing sprites and polygons (making them roughly the same size as in split screen) and running the game at a higher speed.

Before and after the race the player is able to set up tyre hardness, wing angle and the transmission, and can be forced to quit if the player fails to make a pitstop to replace worn out tyres, or simply overheats the engine by rapid downshifting at high speed, (over-revving is possible with automatic gears by knocking on other cars tyres, making the player car jump, causing a drastic increase in the RPM) noticeable by a loud squealing noise. On the Silverstone track there appears to be two 'retired' cars, one by the pits and one halfway round.

## Reception

CU Amiga gave the Amiga version of F1 an 84 percent rating and called it "a superb two-player game, but pales a little when going solo".[4] Computer Gaming World in August 1994 rated the game 2.5 stars out of five, praising its speed but criticizing its realism, handling, and features like slipstreaming.[5] Mega placed the game at #17 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time.[6] In 2017, Gamesradar ranked the game 17th on its "Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time".[7]

## References

1. ↑ "Release Information for Amiga". http://www.gamefaqs.com/amiga/942761-f1/data.
2. ↑ "Release Information for Genesis". http://www.gamefaqs.com/genesis/941700-f1-world-championship/data.
3. ↑ "Release Information for Master System". http://www.gamefaqs.com/sms/570256-f1/data.
4. ↑ "F1 (Amiga) review". CU Amiga. February 1994. https://archive.org/stream/cuamiga-magazine-048/CUAmiga_048_Feb_1994#page/n78/mode/1up.
5. ↑ Goble, Gordon (August 1994). "Four More For The Road". Computer Gaming World: 60–64. http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=121.
6. ↑ Mega magazine issue 26, page 74, Maverick Magazines, November 1994
7. ↑ Loveridge, Sam (2017-06-21). "Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time" (in en). https://www.gamesradar.com/best-sega-genesis-games-all-time/.

## External links

* Game information in Genesis Project
* Game information in Genesis Collective
* Game information at Classicamiga.com

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Video games based on the Formula One Championship

Final Lap|

* Final Lap
* Final Lap Twin
* Final Lap 2
* Final Lap 3
* Final Lap R

Satoru Nakajima F-1|

* Satoru Nakajima F-1 Hero
* Satoru Nakajima F-1 Hero 2
* F1 Grand Prix: Nakajima Satoru
* Satoru Nakajima F-1 Hero GB World Championship '91
* F-1 Hero MD
* Nakajima Satoru Kanshū F1 Super License
* Nakajima Satoru F-1 Hero '94

Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix|

* Formula One Grand Prix
* Grand Prix 2
* Grand Prix 3
* Grand Prix 4

F-1 Grand Prix|

* SD F-1 Grand Prix
* F-1 World Grand Prix
* F-1 World Grand Prix II

F1 Circus|

* F1 Circus

F1 Pole Position/Human Grand Prix|

* F1 Pole Position
* F1 Pole Position 2
* F1 Pole Position 64

Formula One|

* Formula 1
* Formula 1 97
* Formula 1 98
* Formula One 99
* Formula One 2000
* Formula One 2001
* Formula One Arcade
* Formula One 2002
* Formula One 2003
* Formula One 04
* Formula One 05
* F1 Grand Prix
* Formula One 06
* Formula One Championship Edition

Racing Simulation|

* F1 Racing Simulation
* Monaco Grand Prix
* F1 Racing Championship
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EA Sports F1|

* F1 2000
* F1 Championship Season 2000
* F1 Manager (2000)
* F1 2001
* F1 2002
* F1 Career Challenge

F1 (Codemasters)|

* F1 2009
* F1 2010
* F1 2011
* F1 2012
* F1 Race Stars
* F1 2013
* F1 2014
* F1 2015
* F1 2016
* F1 2017
* F1 2018
* F1 2019
* F1 2020

Other|

* F-1 (arcade game)
* Monaco GP (arcade game)
* F-1 Race
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* Grand Prix Circuit
* Grand Prix Manager
* World Grand Prix
* Pole Position
* Pole Position II
* TX-1
* Chequered Flag
* Continental Circus
* F-1 Dream
* Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing
* F-1 Spirit
* Winning Run
* Tail to Nose
* Super Monaco GP
* Software:Formula One: Built to Win
* Driver's Eyes
* Overtake
* Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II
* F1 ROC: Race of Champions
* F1 ROC II
* F-1 Sensation
* Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving
* Final Stretch
* Grand Prix Manager
* Grand Prix Manager 2
* F1
* Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
* Fastest 1
* F1 Challenge
* Formula One World Championship
* GP Challenge
* Grand Prix Legends
* Grand Prix World
* F1 World Grand Prix 2000
* Grand Prix Challenge
* F1 Manager (2019)

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