Top Gear (1992)

Top Gear is a racing video game published by Kemco and developed by Gremlin Graphics in 1992. It is one of the first racing games to be released for Super Nintendo.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The soundtrack is great, and it is the primary reason why the game is considered a masterpiece. An unforgettable example is the first track theme which is considered the best theme song in the game, because it gives you the adrenaline of playing a racing game.
 * 2) Great and well detailed graphics, especially the environment of the tracks, that has a lot of details in the background, like the third track when it takes place on the New York in the night with has a lot of buildings, with some lights on their windows.
 * 3) You can choose four different cars (White, Red, Blue, and Purple) which contrast sharply from one another, which can give the player some strategy in the gameplay. For example, the white car is best for fuel consumption but has the lowest speed, while the red car has the fastest speed, but consumes gasoline in seconds.
 * 4) During the gameplay your character will say some quotes if he hits another car, or uses the nitro, which are very funny and iconic, which are:
 * 5) *"LET'S GO!"
 * 6) *"OUTTA MY WAY!!
 * 7) *"ARE YOU BLIND ?"
 * 8) *"AAARGH"
 * 9) *"MOVE THE WRECK!"
 * 10) *"WHAT THE HECK ??"
 * 11) The game gives you passwords (which was a very usual element in Super Nintendo games) that lead you to a specific country, if you manage to win the previous one, and each password is different depending on the difficulty you choose.
 * 12) It has 32 tracks over eight areas around the world, which are the United States, South America (mainly in Brazil, but oddly it includes one track in Mexico), Italy, Germany, Japan, France (including one track in Monaco), The United Kingdom, and Scandinavia (Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark).
 * 13) The controls are easy to memorize, and has some good elements to use during your race, like the nitro which can be useful to gain more speed on your car (you can only use the nitro 3 times), and the gear mechanic, which you move the car from Gear-1 to Gear-5 and back, if you use the manual transmission, since the auto transmission is the game itself that changes the gear of your car without pressing the L and R buttons.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It is almost impossible to win on 1st Place on certain tracks, regardless which difficulty and car you choose, due to the artificial inteligence of the cars being so unfair, and not to mention that in some tracks, it has a lot of corners, that is very difficulty to turn without getting hit by the obstacles and the other cars.
 * 2) If you runs out of fuel, your car will stop and you can't control it anymore. So the best way to avoid this problem is to find the pit-stop that appears during the race (if the track has 5 laps).
 * 3) *Speaking of the pit-stop, it takes some time to fill up the fuel on your car, which means that the other cars will pass you, which is one of the problems that why you can't win on 1st Place in every track.
 * 4) The game can be repetitive overtime, since the tracks are basically the same in every area, changing only the number of laps and corners.
 * 5) The screen area is very small, which increases the difficulty of the gameplay, especially when you have to turn the car to avoid the other cars and obstacles.

Reception
Top Gear was met with positive reception from critics and reviewers alike since its release. In GameFAQs, it has received 3.94 stars.

Legacy
The game was very popular in Brazil, and inspired the Brazilian company Aquiris Game Studio to create the arcade racing game Horizon Chase - World Tour, which features an original soundtrack scored by Top Gear composer Barry Leitch, who also contributes an unlockable remix of the Top Gear main title theme.

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