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Days of Thunder

Release Date calendar
1990
Platform joystick
MS-DOS
Game Type type
Released
Max Players players

No information available

Overview

Tom Cruise's film brought NASCAR racing to the masses, and Mindscape did the same for games players with this license. If you mentally change the driver names, it can be thought of as a recreation of real NASCAR racing rather than a direct recreation of the film. You play Cruise's Cole Trickle character (his name, like many of the others, is slightly different to that of a real NASCAR racer of the day) against your rivals on 8 tracks, based on real-life counterparts. The races are all on ovals, although the exact lengths, corner types and gradients are varied. This means that the ideal racing line on one track can put you into the wall on another. Qualifying is incorporated alongside the races themselves. From times to times you'll have to pull into the pit stop area. When doing so, you control the five members of the pit crew. Loosing time on pit will make you lose positions at the race. The other racers, however, never pit. The NES version has 3rd-Person perspective only.

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Cooperative

No

ESRB

Not Rated

Genres
Racing
Developers
Argonaut Software
Publishers
Mindscape
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