Exhaust Heat
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, released as F1 ROC: Race of Champions in the United States
, is a 1992 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
video game that simulates the season and career of a Formula One superstar.
. Realistic looking advertisements
are present where the audience
sits complete with near-perfect spelling of sponsors; this mild level of censorship applies because some of the sponsors are tobacco
or alcohol
-related. The game uses the Super Famicom's Mode 7
to give the track and background perspective.
Players have a limited amount of money to modify their race car before having to qualify and eventually try to win the race. Modifications must be purchased out of the player's pocket like if he were a driver/owner. As with F1 rules at the time, no refueling was possible; pit stop
s are only used to fix damage on the automobile. Post-race damage penalties will occur if the player finished the race with a damaged vehicle. Even a minor dent can be expensive to a rookie because of the high level of marksmanship by the mechanics. Total damage can and will force the player to retire from the race. The player can choose to hide his stats (in order to look at the backgrounds) or view his stats in order to find out whether he is winning or not.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, is a 1992 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
video game that simulates the season and career of a Formula One superstar.
Summary and gameplay
There are more than a dozen open wheel racing tracks in the world; all of them corresponding to the 1992 Formula One season1992 Formula One season
The 1992 Formula One season was the 43rd FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on March 1, 1992, and ended on November 8 after sixteen races...
. Realistic looking advertisements
Advertising
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are present where the audience
Audience
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sits complete with near-perfect spelling of sponsors; this mild level of censorship applies because some of the sponsors are tobacco
Tobacco
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or alcohol
Alcohol
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-related. The game uses the Super Famicom's Mode 7
Mode 7
Mode 7 is a graphics mode on the Super NES video game console that allows a background layer to be rotated and scaled on a scanline-by-scanline basis to create many different effects. The most famous of these effects this can create is the application of a perspective effect on a background layer...
to give the track and background perspective.
Players have a limited amount of money to modify their race car before having to qualify and eventually try to win the race. Modifications must be purchased out of the player's pocket like if he were a driver/owner. As with F1 rules at the time, no refueling was possible; pit stop
Pit stop
In motorsports, a pit stop is where a racing vehicle stops in the pits during a race for refuelling, new tires, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, or any combination of the above...
s are only used to fix damage on the automobile. Post-race damage penalties will occur if the player finished the race with a damaged vehicle. Even a minor dent can be expensive to a rookie because of the high level of marksmanship by the mechanics. Total damage can and will force the player to retire from the race. The player can choose to hide his stats (in order to look at the backgrounds) or view his stats in order to find out whether he is winning or not.
See also
- Exhaust Heat II: F-1 Driver no KisekiF1 ROC II: Race of ChampionsF1 ROC II: Race of Champions, released in Japan as is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game that was released in 1993 in Japan and North America.This video game takes place in the not-so-distant future...
, the sequel to this game