ESPN Speedworld
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft | ||||||||||
Developer: Sony Imagesoft | ||||||||||
Licensor: ESPN | ||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||
Genre: Racing | ||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||
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ESPN Speedworld is third-person stock car racing game released for the Sega Mega Drive. It was exclusive to North America.
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Gameplay
ESPN Speedworld is a 16-bit rendition of NASCAR, only without the NASCAR license. The objective is to race around a series of banked oval tracks and finish first.
There is no in-game music.
Versions
ESPN Speedworld was released for the Mega Drive and Super NES at around the same time, and the two versions are very similar. The primary difference is that the SNES version has more on-screen colours and more interesting screen transitions (as opposed to the Mega Drive's fade to black). The technology used for drawing the tracks is identical (that is to say, "mode 7" is not utilised on the SNES similar to Mario Kart or F-Zero).
The Mega Drive version's vehicles advertise Sega, ESPN and Sony (Imagesoft), while all advertising was removed from the SNES version (which includes billboards at the side of the road).
Production credits
- Programming: Phillip L. Weeks, J. Vincent Weeks
- Design Team: Vincent Weeks, Phil Weeks, Bob Gordon, Mark Lyons, Christopher Whaley
- Background Art: Alesia Howard, Milo Cooper
- Animations: Joe Brisbois, Emmanuel Valdez, Ted Robertson, Dave Fenderson
- Additional Animations: Bert Huntsinger, John Scharman, Andy Jarros, Leonard McVicker, Alesia Howard
- Sound and Music: Rex Baca, Joe Hight
- Producers: Christopher Whaley, Daniel Meade
- Executive Producer: Rich Robinson
- Assistant Producer: Dennis Quinn
- Testers: Fred Wigand, Greg Kaine, Justin Busch, Martha Williams, Jody Kelsey, Andre Leighton
- Additional Testers: Bruce Cochrane, Seth Luisi, Jose Cruz, Tobin Russell
- Special Thanks to: Liz Weeks, John W. Weeks, Galles Racing, High Tech Only
- Executive Producers: Steve Bornstein, Ed Durso, Dick Glover, Tom Hagopian, Jim Noel, John Wildhack
- Special Thanks to: Jerry Punch
Magazine articles
- Main article: ESPN Speedworld/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: ESPN Speedworld/Technical information.
References
- ↑ File:ESPN Speedworld MD credits.pdf
- ↑ EGM², "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 217
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 105
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 63
- ↑ GamePro, "February 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 116
- ↑ Mega Fun, "02/95" (DE; 1995-01-18), page 104
- ↑ Play Time, "3/95" (DE; 1995-02-08), page 105
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 65
- ↑ VideoGames, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-xx), page 83
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Main page | Magazine articles | Reception | Region coding | Technical information
Prototypes: 1994-07
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