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A Selection of Fabulous F-1 Games, Free for You Forever
We’ll start with Battle Grand Prix, the earliest release on our roster. This Super Nintendo hit was one of the first racing video games ever to feature not just blacktop race tracks but concrete and a few other choices. In conjunction with the 2D surroundings, this lends a more authentic feeling of racing in different parts of the world than other games of its era.
Pole Position, for the Game Boy, could be argued to be even older than Battle Grand Prix. It’s a pepped-up port of the first successful Formula One game in history – 1983’s Pole Position. Nintendo’s first handheld, the Game Boy’s visuals might not blow us away today, but there is a charm to its green-tinted monochromatic display that just can’t be found elsewhere. Pole Position uses this to full effect with lovely blips and beeps to boot.
And then there’s Danny Sullivan’s Indy Heat. It came out a tad later than the preceding pair, but it was one of a surprisingly high number of games released for the NES after the arrival of the SNES. There was still a market for solid 8-bit games, and Indy Heat delivered. One of the cool quirks of this game is that the player must always weigh the pros and cons of driving responsibly enough to brake at pit stops, or attempting to go the whole circuit without a single pause. Rely too much on the former, and your opponents will speed past you. But on the other hand, never stopping for repairs means you have a high risk of breaking down before it’s over!
Like Indy Heat, Turbo Racing was a late-gen NES racer. Reviews were less kind to Turbo, but from a games preservation perspective, MyEmulator is committed to hosting the widest critical range possible. More of a curiosity than a must-play, perhaps, but you can satiate that curiosity right here.
F1 Pole Position 64 was an enviable early Nintendo 64 title that sought to bring the Atari and Game Boy legend into the land of three dimensions. It’s the fifth and final game in the Pole Position franchise, which is immediately apparent when players boot up the game and gain access to all the good qualities, and few of the lesser qualities, of its predecessors. This was developer Human Entertainment’s last hurrah.
F-1 World Grand Prix and F-1 World Grand Prix II are the beating heart of MyEmulator’s F1 series library. Both launched for the N64 being ported to the Sega Dreamcast years down the road. Grand Prix is just one mode on display; there’s also Time Trial, Exhibition, and Challenge. There’s also two-player splitscreen versus mode, a staple of the N64 era. Many millennials and Gen-X denizens remember both of these games fondly, and they still hold perfectly well today for younger folks to get a taste of the 90s.
Finally, there’s F1 Racing Championship. A direct competitor to the World Grand Prix duology, Racing Championship is best known for a soundtrack that chased contemporary pop hits, providing players with mainstream memories that can ring nostalgically true today. The rock band Garbage, for example, contributed the single “Girl Don’t Come”! A team of just 12 people brought Racing Championship to life, but it can now be enjoyed by millions on our emulation gaming website.