Chequered Flag
An overhead-view racing game featuring rotational sprite scaling. The player races over a series of twisting courses, trying to reach the finish line before the timer expires. Chequered Flag includes a…
Chequered Flag is an arcade developed by Konami, released 31 December 1988 on Arcade.
What Chequered Flag is
Chequered Flag is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1988. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An overhead-view racing game featuring rotational sprite scaling. The player races over a series of twisting courses, trying to reach the finish line before the timer expires. Chequered Flag includes a Pit-stop facility, a feature that had appeared a year earlier in Taito's 'Continental Circus'. Should the player's car sustain too much damage, a pit-stop must be made to implement repairs. A 'damage meter' at the bottom of the screen shows the severity of the damage; highlighting what car components are in need of repair; Engine, Front Tires, Rear Tires and Brakes.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Formula 1 series
Chequered Flag is the 12th of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. The next entry was Super Monaco GP in 1989. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Grand Prix 3 at 100.
How it was received
Chequered Flag holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1988 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Chequered Flag launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
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