Touring Car Champions
Touring Car Champions was the first attempt to create a game based on the Australian Touring Car Championship and Bathurst 1000. It was also the first to use full motion video as the base for a racing game.
Touring Car Champions is a racing developed by Torus Games, released 1 June 1997 on DOS.
What Touring Car Champions is
Touring Car Champions is a racing game developed by Torus Games and released in 1997. It was published by Virtual Sports Interactive. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Touring Car Champions was the first attempt to create a game based on the Australian Touring Car Championship and Bathurst 1000. It was also the first to use full motion video as the base for a racing game.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Touring Car Champions launched on 1 June 1997, within three weeks of Shadow Warrior and Triple Play 98.
Released around the same time: Shadow Warrior, Triple Play 98.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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