GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur
Cover art for the 2008 re-release
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
SeriesGTI Club
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: September 12, 1996[1]
  • WW: 1996
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemKonami Scorpion[2]

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a racing video game developed and published by Konami for the arcades in 1996. It is the first game in the GTI Club series. It was re-released for PlayStation Network in 2008.

Gameplay

GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a game that gives players a choice of eight cars including the VW Golf GTI, Renault Le Car, and Mini Cooper, and the course winds through a European city.[3] It is a street racing game with non-linear maps, allowing players to take shortcuts through alternative routes such as tunnels and back alleys.[2]

Development and release

The first GTI Club game was released for the arcades in 1996 by Konami, on their new Cobra arcade board.[4] Three models were released: a deluxe single-player cabinet, a dual sitdown cabinet, and a single-player sitdown cabinet.[5] In the U.S., the deluxe model was released only in very limited numbers.[6]

Reception

The game was a hit in arcades.[2] In Japan, Game Machine listed GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur on their February 1, 1997 issue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.[7]

Next Generation gave it four stars out of five and called it a "sufficiently immersive" one-player game.[3] Hyper magazine also rated it 4 out of 5 stars.[8]

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ "KONAMI/Press Release". 1997-01-07. Archived from the original on 1997-01-07. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  2. 1 2 3 "Konami: Sssmokin'!" (PDF). Next Generation. No. 27 (March 1997). 11 February 1997. p. 26.
  3. 1 2 "Finals". Next Generation. No. 36. Imagine Media. December 1997. p. 178.
  4. ↑ "JAMMA '96: Konami and Capcom Gain Ground". Next Generation. No. 24. Imagine Media. December 1996. p. 20.
  5. ↑ Webb, Marcus (March 1997). "Konami: Sssmokin'!". Next Generation. No. 27. Imagine Media. p. 26.
  6. ↑ Webb, Marcus (June 1997). "Konami America Blows Away the Bad Guys". Next Generation. No. 30. Imagine Media. p. 28.
  7. ↑ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - 完成品夕イプのTVゲーム機 (Dedicated Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 534. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 February 1997. p. 25.
  8. ↑ "Arcade". Hyper. No. 41. March 1997. pp. 20–1.
  9. ↑ https://archive.org/details/Console_Plus_Numero_063/page/n143/mode/2up
  10. ↑ https://archive.org/details/Playmania_128/page/n49/mode/2up
  11. ↑ https://archive.org/details/playerone-magazine-072/page/n35/mode/2up
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