Days of Thunder

Description

Tom Cruise's film brought NASCAR racing to the masses, and Mindscape did the same for games players with this license. If you mentally change the driver names, it can be thought of as a recreation of real NASCAR racing rather than a direct recreation of the film.

You play Cruise's Cole Trickle character (his name, like many of the others, is slightly different to that of a real NASCAR racer of the day) against your rivals on 8 tracks, based on real-life counterparts. The races are all on ovals, although the exact lengths, corner types and gradients are varied. This means that the ideal racing line on one track can put you into the wall on another. Qualifying is incorporated alongside the races themselves.

From times to times you'll have to pull into the pit stop area. When doing so, you control the five members of the pit crew. Loosing time on pit will make you loose positions at the race. The other racers, however, never pit.

The NES version has 3rd-Person perspective only.

Part of the Following Group

• Movie-inspired games

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The Press Says

VideoGame	NES	Jun, 1991		60
Mean Machines	NES	May, 1991	39 out of 100	39
Power Play	DOS	Dec, 1990	36 out of 100	36
Power Play	Atari ST	Dec, 1990	34 out of 100	34
Power Play	Amiga	Dec, 1990	34 out of 100	34
Power Play	NES	May, 1991	29 out of 100	29
Video Games	NES	Mar, 1991	29 out of 100	29
ST-Computer	Atari ST	Jul, 1990	1 out of 10	10

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Trivia

The string "Copyright(C) 1989 Knowledge Dynamics Corp." appears in the program executable, but it's unknown what role this company played in the creation of this game.

If the Adlib or Roland detection isn't working, simply copy the ADLIB.BIN or ROLAND.BIN file over the PCSND.BIN file to force sound for your card.