Days of Thunder
Sega Genesis · 1990
About this game
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.
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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.
About Sega Genesis
Known as the Mega Drive outside North America, the Sega Genesis (1988/1989) was Sega's most successful console and Sonic the Hedgehog's original home, fueling the "console wars" era against Nintendo's SNES. Genesis cartridge collecting is well-established: common sports and platformer titles are affordable, while sports-license and later-era games with smaller print runs can carry a meaningful premium.
Gamevaro tracks Days of Thunder for Sega Genesis with separate market values for loose, complete-in-box (CIB) and factory-sealed copies, sourced from real eBay sales. Prices also vary by region — PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J releases of the same game often sell for different amounts due to print run sizes and regional collector demand.
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