F1 Spirit
| F-1 Spirit | |
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| Genres | Racing |
| Developers | Konami |
| Publishers | Konami |
| First release |
F-1 Spirit: The Way to Formula-1 1987 |
| Latest release |
F-1 Spirit 1991 |
| F-1 Spirit: The Way to Formula-1 | |
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Composer(s) | Kazuhiko Uehara Motoaki Furukawa Yoshinori Sasaki |
| Platform(s) | MSX home computer |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) |
Single-player Multiplayer |
| F-1 Spirit 3D Special | |
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Composer(s) | Goro Kin |
| Platform(s) | MSX2+ |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) |
Single-player Multiplayer |
| F-1 Spirit World Circuit Series The Spirit of F-1 |
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
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| Platform(s) | Game Boy |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Formula One racing |
| Mode(s) |
Single-player Multiplayer (up to two players) |
| F-1 Spirit & F-1 Spirit 3D Special | |
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| Soundtrack album by Konami Kukeiha Club | |
| Released | May 21, 1989 |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
| Length | 19:04 |
| Label | King Records |
| MSX Racing Spirit Soundtracks | |
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| Soundtrack album by Konami Kukeiha Club | |
| Released | May 19, 2014 |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
| Length | 38:31 |
| Label | EGG MUSIC RECORDS / D4Enterprise |
F-1 Spirit (エフワン スピリット) is a series of Formula One-based racing video games developed and published by Konami starting on the MSX in 1987.
F-1 Spirit: The Way to Formula-1 is a top down Formula One Racing game, developed and published by Konami, which was released for the MSX in Japan and Europe in 1987. The game engine is very similar to Konami's Road Fighter. It also features Konami's custom sound chip called Konami SCC (a five-channel chip that compliments the three-channel PSG chip of the MSX computer system, or in other words, a sound custom chip that brings five voices more to the three voices of the PSG sound chip on the system), and great MSX1 graphics to go with it. It was one of the first ROM on MSX with this sound feature. Together with its "3D" spinoff (F-1 Spirit: 3D Special), F-1 Spirit: The Way to Formula-1 was the most extended racing game Konami released for the MSX.
This third-person racing game features many different types of cars. Everything starts with , moving up to rally cars and Formula 3. The main goal is to finish at first place with Formula 1, the king class of racing. There are six types of races: Stock race, Rally, F3 race, F3000 race, Endurance race, and finally F1 races (16 tracks). Initially, the player can only race in the stock, rally and F3 races. As the player win races, he will accumulate points that will allow him to play new races. If the player finish a race at first place he will receive nine points. He get eight points if he finishes second, etc. If the player finish 10th or later, he will not score any points. There are 16 different tracks for F1 cars. As the player win races, he will be able to play more tracks in the F1 car category. To complete the game, you have to win all of the 16 F1 tracks. There's a grand total of 21 tracks. The first races are the easiest: the cars are slow and the enemies do not drive very well. But as the player classify for new tracks the difficulty will increase: F1 cars are insanely fast and you will need a great agility to win in F1 tracks. Even though they look impossible to control at first, with some practice you can master the Formula 1 cars and win races. And if that's not enough, you can always show off your skills in multi player mode.
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