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Toy Racer
System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
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
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Dreamcast
EU 		MK-51149-50
ELSPA: 3+ OK
Sega Dreamcast
DE 		DM 19.9519.95[5] MK-51149-50
USK: 0
Sega Dreamcast
FR 		69F69[6] MK-51149-50
SELL: Tous Publics
Sega Dreamcast
UK 		£4.994.99[2][3] MK-51149-50
ELSPA: 3+ OK

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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[7], but never materialised.

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[8]. Jean-Pierre Papin's Neuf de coeur (Nine of Hearts) foundation received 90,000 Francs from French sales[9], where 10FF of the 69FF price was given to the charity[6]. In Germany and Austria three Deutsche Marks from every game was donated to Herzenswünsche e.V. (Heart Wish)[5] and Saint Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna[4] respectively.

History

The online portions to the game where brought back online in 2014[10][11] and supports both the Modem and the Broadband Adapter.

Production credits

No Cliché 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
Sega Credits
Source:
EU manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Toy Racer/Magazine articles.

Artwork

  • DreamcastElementsDec2000-ToyRacer LOGO~T 1.svg
  • Toyracer logo.png

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
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Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
576 Konzol (HU)
75
[12]
Consoles Max (FR) PAL
80
[13]
Consoles + (FR) PAL
80
[14]
Computer & Video Games (UK) PAL
0
[15]
Dreamzone (FR) PAL
71
[16]
Game Station (UK)
80
[17]
Neo Plus (PL)
40
[18]
Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL
60
[3]
PSX Extreme (PL)
20
[19]
Revista Oficial Dreamcast (ES) PAL
60
[20]
Video Games (DE) PAL
73
[21]
Sega Dreamcast
 58
Based on
11 reviews

Toy Racer

Dreamcast, EU
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Cover
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Disc
Dreamcast, DE
ToyRacer DC DE Box Front.jpg
Cover
ToyRacer DC EU Disc.jpg
Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments

References

  1. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/50781/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-26 08:59)
  2. ↑ DC-UK, "February 2001" (UK; 2001-01-18), page 27
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "March 2001" (UK; 2001-02-08), page 80
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.sega.at:80/news/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2001-02-05 14:32)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Spielend-spenden-30079.html (Wayback Machine: 2016-07-06 06:02)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 htt (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-19 00:39)
  7. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 2000" (US; 2000-10-30), page 87
  8. ↑ http://www.dreamcast-europe.com:80/english/news/000027/000027.php (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-01 14:48)
  9. ↑ http://www.dreamcast-europe.com/francais/news/000111/000111.php (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-28 18:40)
  10. ↑ http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6647 (Wayback Machine: 2016-04-02 03:46)
  11. ↑ http://www.dcserv.org/?p=311 (Wayback Machine: 2016-04-20 15:30)
  12. ↑ 576 Konzol, "Április 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 37
  13. ↑ Consoles Max, "Janvier 2001" (FR; 200x-xx-xx), page 122
  14. ↑ Consoles +, "Mars 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 86
  15. ↑ Computer & Video Games, "February 2001" (UK; 2001-01-17), page 95
  16. ↑ Dreamzone, "Février 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 92
  17. ↑ Game Station (UK) (+0:00)
  18. ↑ Neo Plus, "Marzec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 42
  19. ↑ PSX Extreme, "05/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 67
  20. ↑ Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Febrero 2001" (ES; 2001-xx-xx), page 44
  21. ↑ Video Games, "02/2001" (DE; 2001-01-03), page 87
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