Monaco GP (Arcade) 1979

Monaco GP is an arcade racing video game released by Sega in November 1979 in Japan and January 1980 in the rest of the world. An enhanced version, Pro Monaco GP, was released later in 1980. One of Sega's last video games to use TTL chips instead of a microprocessor CPU, the game has players race against the clock and overtake rival racers while trying to score points by driving through five areas. The game was a commercial success in the arcades. In Japan, it was among the top three highest-grossing games of 1979 and among the top five in 1980, while in the United States it was the highest-grossing driving game of 1981. It continued to appear regularly on Japanese arcade charts until 1983 and made a record number of appearances on US arcade charts from 1980 to 1987. Monaco GP was ported to the SG-1000 in 1983. The series also had subsequent releases Super Monaco GP and Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II. Monaco GP is played from an overhead perspective, where the main objective is to finish a course before time runs out. Points are awarded as the player races through five areas. As the game progresses, rival cars controlled by the game's artificial intelligence become faster, the road narrows, and the road surface changes to ice and gravel. Various road hazards include puddles, narrow bridges, and tunnels where the driver's view is limited by the range of the car's headlights on screen. The stopwatch continues to count down until 2,000 points are scored; after that, the system switches to a limited number of lives. At 6,000 points and again at 8,000, rival cars increase their speed. According to Sega Arcade History, the concept for this timer system came from Sega Enterprises president Hayao Nakayama. Pro Monaco GP, an enhanced version of the game released later, features a higher difficulty level than the original game. Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_GP Gameplay: It is not a Mame game, download here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index...