F-1 Spirit (series)

F-1 Spirit (エフワン スピリット) is a series of Formula One-based racing video games developed and published by Konami starting on the MSX in 1987.

F-1 Spirit: The Way to Formula-1 is a top down Formula One racing game, developed and published by Konami, which was released for the MSX in Japan and Europe in 1987.

The main goal is to finish at first place with Formula 1, the king class of racing.

The difficulty level can be set, the race track selected and the number of laps is variable.

Top speed will decrease if the engine is damaged and the players will lose time in every lap.

When they are in the PIT STOP they can hold down the DOWN key to speed up car repairs, but the fuel intake will be slower.

An unlicensed Master System port was released by Zemina in the same year, as F1 스피리트.

Unlike the original, this game uses scaling-based third-person graphics like Pole Position and the like, and focuses specifically on F-1 racing.

This game featured a special cable which allowed two MSX2+ computers to be linked via the second joystick port.

Another thing that makes this game special is that it uses MSX-Music ("FM-PAC"), the Yamaha YM2413 OPLL sound chip, originally sold separately or built into various models of the MSX2+ and MSX turboR computers.

As the players rise in class, tracks become longer (forcing pit stops), racers become faster and turns change from simple low angle corners which require no more than a slight trajectory, to elbow corners which require some skill to turn without losing speed.

This remake retains much of the gameplay and content of the original, but with changed physics, a number of sound and graphical improvements (some of the latter make the game resemble titles such as F-1 Grand Prix), and online leaderboards.