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Gaming History: Geoff Crammond’s Formula One Grand Prix 1 (F1GP) "Birth of the F1 Simulator Game"

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To kick off the new season of Formula One Racing let’s take a moment to remember the good old days, when you play a F1 simulator game as an entire team, not just one driver, and you could ram every other car off the road and still not be disqualified. It was also extremely detailed for something made before real 3D graphics were actually a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQWNDgg9ig

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Can remember finishing school running home to play this for the first time! Keyboard and mouse until the Christmas I was allowed a wheel. 

Good times, great memories, same for F1 1997 on the PS1, showing my age a bit!


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Tejuarr said:
Can remember finishing school running home to play this for the first time! Keyboard and mouse until the Christmas I was allowed a wheel. 

Good times, great memories, same for F1 1997 on the PS1, showing my age a bit!


F1 1997 is a classic as well. I also liked EA Sports F1 2000. It was a very good game on PS1

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And don't forget Grand Prix Legends. There is still a rather large community keeping this game alive. Greatest graphics and handling for a game of that era.

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I had this on an Amiga. Used to love it even if it was a bit jumpy and was so far ahead of it's time

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I was so stoked for this game when I had an Amiga (a 500 Plus at that time), remember buying every magazine that had a preview just in case they had new screenshots. After I'd had it a couple of months I bought a Konix Speed King analogue joystick that was pretty much only any use for F1GP and a couple of other Microprose flight sims (which I also played to death).

Then I got an A1200 a couple of years later, and being able to install it on a hard drive and play at a reasonable(!) frame rate with all the track details turned on was like having a whole new game. Lovely stuff.

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Best Series, for its time... I still pay Gp3 on my windows tablet when on the go..... The AI is still amazinggggggggggggggggggggg

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In terms of features & game-play, it seems like video games have not evolved much in the last couple of decades. They just look & sound better now.


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If I remember correctly it allowed for mouse to look around *.. like VR... like we don't have with CM's F1 games well into this 21st century.
I didn't have my wheel or pedals bolted down back then.
You didnt get steamed back then either where it insists you connect to the internet for no good reason and doesn't allow you to play at all until you do. You owned the game, not leased it.
ahh, user devlopment still going on 
http://www.grandprix2.de/

* If that is not correct, then European Air War did allow this.

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