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NASCAR Racing

Trivia

NASCAR Racing was named #31 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on May 01, 2008.

More than 1,000,000 units were sold, even though the game the required a (then) top-of-the-line 486-66 processor, and the high-res version was only shipped on a CD-ROM, for which drives were not common in 1994.

Contributed by Sciere (119784) on Feb 12, 2006.

A special Win32 version of NASCAR Racing was packaged with the Diamond Edge 3D video card. This version was optimized to run on the Edge 3D only, and does not run with any other video cards.

Contributed by Rogee (517) on Feb 02, 2001.

NASCAR Racing won several major awards, including: Best Sports Program of 1995-SPA Codie Award Best Simulation of 1995-PC Gamer Best Sports Program of 1995-PC Gamer Best Simulation of 1995-Computer Gaming World Golden Triad Award-Computer Game Review

The game followed in the tradition of the toy companies. There were NO advertisements for Beer or Tobacco products. That meant that Rusty Wallace drove the "Ford Racing" Ford. However, you could always add the companies using the included "paint shop" feature. However, since it wasn't on the main menu, some people didn't even know that it was there.

The game could be considered among Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, & Quake for helping along with the user created level marketplace. Hundreds of user made cars can be found on the Internet.

The tracks are so realistic, that if you look at a maps of the tracks that name the grandstands, you can point them out in the game.

Dave Marcus & Joe Nemechek gave advice in the manual about how to race at certain tracks. It's been kind of funny with the fans, because both of these drivers have won a combined 6 races in their NASCAR Winston Cup career.

If you put the CD into an audio CD player, you can hear two rock tracks. "Race Riff" by Skid Row & "The Fastest Sport" by The Fat Man.