Grand Prix Circuit

Ine of the few racers I could be bothered to play. Pretty impressive game. Second only (imo) to the Microprose games (when it comes to simulation aspects).

Grand Prix Circuit is probably the best driving game on the Commodore 64, from the intro screens and awesome tunes to the polished sprites it ticks all the boxes. I remember being impressed with the amount of tracks on offer. After playing Pitstop 2 this was a huge improvement. Along with buggy boy my fave driving game.

I've only owned and played the Amiga version and that was a fantastic racer, looks like the C64 is equally as good.

I remember, when I played Pole Position for the first time, I was wondering how could be a F1 game where you don't just have to overtake random opponents, but participating in a real race, watching the car cockpit in first person view... I though it was just a dream, until Grand Prix Circuit came out.
Neddless to say, I rushed to buy it, and from that moment on I spent hours of pure fun. Ok, you have only three teams avalaible, there are only 8 circuits, and not so many cars during the game, but the feeling is incredible. You just had to avoid the tape version, because of the awful loading times. The rest is perfect, very realistic and entertaining. Possibly the best F1 simulation for the C64.

Fantastic game, for me this showed what could be done on the C64, its suprising there weren't many decent racing games for it, this Revs+ and Stunt Car Racer were the stand out racing games

Loved to play this.
It was very advanced and ran very smooth.
At the time this was very immersive for me as a race fan.

Another game for show the C=64 power. You know, just in 64kb!!! . This is the best GPC version ever, better than Amiga Version. Yeah, its awesome games for C=64. Could be the best F1 game for C=64.

This game has awesome graphics, music and lots of tracks. Also a great feature was the fact that I was able to save my lap times (I had floppy disk version, not sure if this works on cassette version). Possibly the best racing game on C64.

I remember liking this one when I was a teenager. Better looking than Test Drive.

I love the music in this one.

This was the game that was constantly running at our Spectrum/Commodore/Atari cottage meetings back in 1990-91... It was on 24 hours per the whole weekend and there was still someone playing it, even throughout the night. Great game, and the best version, 286 PC AT lacks just everything Commodore 64 has. Hihgly recommended for any disc drive user. 10/10

Nice graphics and a technical good program. But as game this thing is overrated in my opinion. Even the control in the two years older Test Drive is much better. It could be an really good game but it's to hard for this own good.
5 points.

If you want to play an good 3D-Racing game try Test Drive 2 instead.

I'm good at video games but this one is HARD as nails!!! ... What the heck, why is this game rated so high 8. 3? Every turn on the track in Tournaments is hell difficult to control, and my car is destroyed before finishing the race, except (Brazil Italy) ""on 2nd LOWEST difficulty, I might add! ""... Not to mention, I can't even fucking turn without having to drop to 40 mph to do it! Even then I am skidding off the road! Thus causing damage to my gear or engine.

... WEAK...

Does anyone notice how annoying the sound of your race cars engine??! Ugh ''nails on aluminum... ''

Yet, even still... I am drawn to this sluggy-clumsy race game, like a bug to sticky dangling tape. Had to take a nap, after stress playing this game for an hour or two.
6/10 WHATEVA!!! SO DAMN OVERRATED IT HURTS

Ok, I take it back. This is ok. If I could stop driving like George Michael for five minutes, it would be even better. Always hated the way C64 race games use the joystick axis to accelerate, vey tricky to keep the buggr in a straight line.

Time hasn't been kind to this game. It's a game I load up every so often in the hopes that something will click and I'll get into it. Hasn't happened yet, but you never know...

This was an amazing game, when it worked!! I don't know if anyone else had a problem with the cassette version of this game, but I always had problems with it loading on side 2. I even borrowed a friends copy and it did the same (not work).

Superb graphics, music, great choice of tracks, good controls. It did make me wish I had the disk version though because of the horrid multi-load.

One of the few games on the Commie that is virtually perfect: It gives you options to choose from, but not too many so it doesn't get complicated. The cars all feel different and so do the really nicely converted circuits. Implemetation of rearviewmirror and records saver is the icing on the cake. Most importantly: It feels like driving a formula one race. A classic.

Loved this game on my c64

I remember the first time when I played this. I was totally blown away by the graphics and playability. Nowdays it doesn't feel as good, but still quite playable. And it's an Formula 1 game for god's sake

Great music, fantastic graphics, presentation of the highest order and some amazing racing. This was one of them games that when you played for the first time you were speechless. One to show of to your mates at the time. I always remember putting manual gears on and trying to pull away in netrual. Smoke came out my engine as seen in the wing mirrors (one of many great features) and the message appeared. "You have destroyed your car". Great. L

OMG I was soooooooooooo hanging out for this one when it was coming out... Purchased it the FIRST day I could from TARGET here in Australia.. And it didn't work Bit of TRAVIA For Ya... Sega-OZISOFT... Distributed all Accolade games back then... And Australia's first version of GPC was NTSC! Thus didn't work! Mind you when they finally shipped a Fully Working Version out here... I found it to be virtually THE BEST F1 game on the 64, Maybe Beaten by PITSTOP 2 only... 86/100 For Mine...

Quite simply brilliant. For its time, it's amazing how they managed it.

I used to play this game all the time and when I saw the PC version on my cuzins ibm at the time I kept on thinking how come the C64 version looked and sounded better... Truly amazing for its time... Btw how mad is the title music!

Häkkinen rules. X)

Not only is the gameplay very great (it set much standards for race games afterwards), but I like the music most! Especially the intro, with the dissolving screens and big logos looks very great with the music of Kris Hatlelid. It would be nice to have your own logo above such a great game! I only have some trouble with joystich steering here...

Better than Amiga or PC Version.

This was simply SUPERB F1 simulator on C64! Beated s*it out of the ugly PC version. Excellent game and I played this for hours and hours and hours...

THE Formula 1 Simulator for the C64! Superb Digi-Music, smooth C64-3D-Graphics and a very good playability makes Grand Prix Circuit the godfather of the racing games (par with Buggy Boy). 10/10

This is what got me started in sim racing! Thanks for the memories...

Wish I could get this to work properly on my emulator, it looks awesome.

This is one of the games on top of my C64-list! Brilliant! I've played it a m, inute ago, just to see what it was like many years ago, when I glued to the TV-screen playing this game against my friends. And to be honoust, I was surprised how good the game still is, keeping in mind that it's C64! It's incredible, the screen shivers when driving flat down a straight and going into a corner really quick even gives you the opportunity to drift! It remembers me of the present day GP-series of Geoff Crammond, but this being the 1988 version (not forgetting REVS of Geoff ofcoarse!). I still liked playing this game. Wow!

Thanks folks!
I always hated the mosquito engine sound.
But I loved the digital guitar in the front end.
I'm imfamous for spending weeks getting that little stop watch to animate (sprite) as the loading from disk happened... Had to lock the interupts... Timing critical.

The framerate was right up there with the PC of the day.

The disolve was done with 'sprite blankets'.
There were raster interupts all over the place, and the game played a little faster on a C128, where I could double the clockrate during the vblank.

The AI was pretty simple, but there was a bit of vendictiveness/agression factor depending on the driver and if bumped the opponent and things like that.

Brad Gour did the PC version, and we both works on 'Test Drive', but I do technology now, while he is working on Need for Speed.
My driving has never been the same, since I did Grand Prix

Great Game!!!

I remember playing a full season. I had finished first in every race until the last one. In that one Tse Sakamoto crashed me out on purpose. I always thought his AI was to be a cheap driver!!

Awesome game for its time. The only complaint I had was the copy protection for reasons unknown would freak out my disk drive and cause the read/write head to slam into the track bummer. It was the only game to have this happen. Other than that... It was a great game

I got into this very late on in my C64 romance (94) but it still shook my racing world and coincided with the year I really started following Schumacher.
Who can forget Kris Hatlelid's thumping drum sound in the title tune and the posterity of the Fastest Laps tables. Sadly, my version was a copy so I'd often finish a grandprix only for the disk to make explosive noises and crash the game on me! After Street Rod, this is my favourite racing sim by Accolade.

This is a fantastic game! But the best SIMULATION ever made for the C64 is Formula3: a real 3D formula1 game!! I've got this game and I think it is very rare! (published only in Italy??). GP Circuit is the best 2' place!

I played this for hours! Daily!

Best racing game ever made for C=64!
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The BEST F1 game for C64! Much better than the PC-version. Great music, graphics and gameplay!

Not as god as "REVS", but nevertheless very good...

Actually, the hardcopy of the opening screen (made using the KCS powercartridge and a Star matrixprinter) is still on the wall here... It looks a bit yellow though... Great game!

The second best racing game EVER on the 64, only beaten by Pitstop 2 ... If only it had been split screen A great challenge good graphics and loads of playability...

It still looks alright to me, though C64 racing games do look extremely dusty in 2002.
Good game, anyway.
Honourable simulation!

The game has aged badly but at the time it was a very good game

This is a great game. Probably the best with this view and one of the best (I ought to mension at least Pistop 2) driving games on this machine. It's worst defect was the unbelievable multiload (even for a C64... ) but since you don't have to deal with that anymore...