Number 157
Nigel Mansell’s World Championship
YS Readers: 99
It tells you something about the Speccy's popularity that this came along in 1993, after many people would've given up on the system. Looking at this Formula One racer, though, you can understand why they did.
While this game was released on numerous platforms at the time, including the Amiga and Super Nintendo, the Spectrum was clearly still in enough homes to warrant a port. You can race on a variety of circuits around the world as you try to guide Nigel Mansell to the driver's championship. The Spectrum, like any 8-bit machine, struggles a little with this kind of racing game, but it still manages to deliver a playable experience - even if the extreme tape loading could make some fans think twice about starting a gaming session.
This is very much a 128K-only game, and the loading shows it. There are lots of tracks to load into memory off tape and it can be a very laborious process. After all that, you get a game which, while admirable for the ageing Speccy hardware, was still way behind what the other ports of this game could achieve. In hindsight, you'd probably be better off leaving this in the past.
16K - No
48K - No
128K - Yes
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