Toy Racer
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System(s): Sega Dreamcast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: No Cliché | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: Broadband Adapter, Jump Pack, Dreamcast Keyboard, Dreamcast Modem, Race Controller, Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toy Racer is the sequel to Toy Commander. It was developed by No Cliché, published by Sega and only released in Europe for a budget price of £5 (where £1 of this would go to charity). It was marketed as being an online game, and as a result has no AI players to race against in single-player mode.
A North American version, set to debut shortly after the European copy, was seemingly announced[12], but never materialised.
Contents
Gameplay
Vehicles
Toy Racer has 14 vehicles with two liveries each:
Pickup | |
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Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
VBL | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Willys | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
F1 | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
WRC | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Buggy | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Tiger | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Sherman | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Bulldozer | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Cab | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Combi | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Army Transport | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
ToothMobil | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
Trakthor | |
Acceleration: ? Max Speed: ? Grip: ? Armour: ? | |
History
Charity
A percentage of the game's sales were given to various children's charities across Europe.
In the UK £50,000 was raised for the ELSPA Entertainment Software Charity[13]. Jean-Pierre Papin's Neuf de coeur (Nine of Hearts) foundation received 90,000 Francs from French sales[14], where 10FF of the 69FF price was given to the charity[10]. In Germany and Austria three Deutsche Marks from every game was donated to Herzenswünsche e.V. (Heart Wish)[7] and Saint Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna[5] respectively.
Production credits
- Creative Director: Frédérick Raynal
- Art Director: Didier Chanfray
- Project Manager, Main Programmer: Frantz Cournil
- Network programming, Menus, Server: Pascal Dubois
- Game & Track Design, Script Coding, Resources Manager: Lionel Chaze
- 2D Artist for Menus, Marketing Support: Sabine Morlat
- Menus design: Olivier Martin
- Hidden Vehicles: Romain Chavanne
- Libraries, Optimization: Sébastien Viannay
- Vehicles, Special F/X, Animation: Arnaud Lhomme
- Physics, Dynamics, Algorithmic: Cédrick Collomb
- Music, Sound F/X: Philippe Vachey
- Executive Producer: David Chomard
- Director of Product Development: Naohiko Hoshino
- Producer: Dave Nulty
- Test Manager: Jason Cumberbatch
- Lead Tester: Nick Bennett
- Technical Support Manager: Serge Plagnol
- Spanish translator: Roberto Parraga Sanchez
- German Translator: Angelika Michitsch
- Marketing Support:
- European Product Marketing Manager: Jim Pride
- European Product Marketing Executive: Mark Fisher
- UK: Tunde Orelaja, Stuart Turner
- France: Laurent Boby, Karine Marolle
- Germany: Kim Shon, Tina Sakowsky
- Spain: Begona Sanz, Ester Barral
- Manual & Packaging:
- Senior Designer: Ross McLeish
- Desiger: Tom Bingle
- Localisation/Design Co-ordinator: Sarah Ward
- Network Support & Marketing:
- Director - Network: Toshihiro Shibazaki
- Producer: Mark Horneff
- European Promotions Manager: Neil Russell
- Online Editor: Steve Bradley
- Internet Design Manager: Luc Houselander Operations & Manufacture
- European Operations Director: Naoya Tsurumi
- Product Planning Manager: Patrick Smith
- Technical services: Teruo Yaburnato
- Sega Europe Management:
- Chief Executive Officer: Jean-Francois Cecillon
- Chief Operating Officer: Kazutoshi Miyake
- Special thanks to: Ito Ryusuke, Stephen Tan, Mark Maslowicz, Kats Sato
Magazine articles
- Main article: Toy Racer/Magazine articles.
Artwork
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Toy Racer/Technical information.
References
- ↑ http://www.chipsworld.co.uk/detProd.asp?ProductCode=3674 (Wayback Machine: 2001-04-27 18:54)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/uk.games.video.dreamcast/c/lPl70lSCGOY/m/n_2rAQB_VwYJ
- ↑ DC-UK, "February 2001" (UK; 2001-01-18), page 27
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "March 2001" (UK; 2001-02-08), page 80
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.sega.at:80/news/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2001-02-05 14:32)
- ↑ http://www.okaysoft.de:80/DCNEU.HTM (Wayback Machine: 2001-03-04 08:10)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Spielend-spenden-30079.html (Wayback Machine: 2016-07-06 06:02)
- ↑ http://www.micromania.fr/zooms/?ref=18536 (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-15 11:11)
- ↑ http://www.amazon.fr:80/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/557790/ref=vg_br_dp_2_lf/t/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-14 21:30)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 htt (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-19 00:39)
- ↑ http://www.centromail.es/top/ficha.asp?codmail=16365&codprov= (Wayback Machine: 2001-09-17 08:14)
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 2000" (US; 2000-10-30), page 87
- ↑ http://www.dreamcast-europe.com:80/english/news/000027/000027.php (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-01 14:48)
- ↑ http://www.dreamcast-europe.com/francais/news/000111/000111.php (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-28 18:40)
- ↑ 576 Konzol, "Április 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 37
- ↑ Consoles Max, "Janvier 2001" (FR; 200x-xx-xx), page 122
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mars 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 86
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "February 2001" (UK; 2001-01-17), page 95
- ↑ Dreamzone, "Février 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 92
- ↑ Game Station (UK) (+0:00)
- ↑ Neo Plus, "Marzec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 42
- ↑ PSX Extreme, "05/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 67
- ↑ Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Febrero 2001" (ES; 2001-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ Video Games, "02/2001" (DE; 2001-01-03), page 87
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