Turbo Prop Racing
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| Turbo Prop Racing | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | SCE London Studio |
| Publisher(s) | SCEA |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
| Release date |  June 30, 1998 July 16, 1998 October 1997 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
| Media | CD-ROM |
Turbo Prop Racing (titled Rapid Racer in Europe and Japan) is a racing game released for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. In the game, the player takes control of a Motorboat and races around six different courses: A Miami Beach-style track, a course running through Utah's mountains, a track set in the Arctic, a course set in Canada's mountains, a stream running through an African village, and a lava field. Eventually, all six tracks can be raced backwards, mirrored, as well as set at night time.
By winning championships and completing bonus rounds (unlocked by collecting various icons during a race), players can unlock money which they can use to either upgrade their motorboat or buy a higher-powered one.
[edit] Trivia
- Turbo Prop Racing was significant in that it was one of the first PlayStation games to take full advantage of the DualShock controller; not only did the game allow steering with the analog sticks, but the game also vibrated constantly. The intensity of the vibrations also depended on what type of water you were in; calm rapids meant low vibrations, while heavier rapids gave high vibrations.
- One of the game's biggest selling points was that it ran at 60 Frames per second. However, in order for the game to run at that frame rate on the original PlayStation, track detail and textures had to be sacrificed. Additionally, the frame rate lowered to 30 frames per second during 2-player splitscreen.
- After you reached a certain point in the game, players could unlock a Random Number Generator. This feature allowed the player to select from a large number of tracks besides the normal six. Players could either allow the generator to randomly create a number (which corresponded to a certain track) or manually input their own. While this feature sounded like it gave a staggering amount of tracks, in reality all these randomly-generated tracks were basically empty aside from water and walls and as such, many of the tracks tended to run together.
- A code causes the game to replace the motorboats with Ducks.
