Days of Thunder

Moby ID: 1432
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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 time to time you'll have to pull into the pitstop area. When doing so, you control the five members of the pit crew. Losing time in the pitstop will make you lose positions at the race. The other racers, however, never pit.

The NES version has 3rd-Person perspective only.

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Knowledge Dynamics Corp

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.

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Game added by Macintrash.

ZX Spectrum added by Kabushi. Commodore 64, Game Boy, NES added by totalgridlock. Amiga, Atari ST added by Martin Smith.

Additional contributors: Trixter, Martin Smith, Patrick Bregger.

Game added May 13, 2000. Last modified January 22, 2024.