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NASCAR, the virtually all popular motorsport in the United States, has worked with video game developers to design many computer game.

History of NASCAR games
At the start, NASCAR did non benefit the big fastness on the computer game industry until years when such games when NHL Hockey and Madden NFL Football (both created by Electronic Arts) got many titles under their specific list. Nevertheless, prior to NASCAR Racing took a sim racing globe by storm, there was an additional, lesser-known racing back discharged quaternity years prior to it that donned the NASCAR license. This game was referred to as Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge (released in 1990 by Konami). This game was non single a 1st game to stand a NASCAR license, however it was as well a number one game to stand many NASCAR tracks (including Watkins Glen and Talladega) and the NASCAR driver around it (which was Bill Elliott).

Possibly though NASCAR broke into a streaming videos game market within 1990, it would require many supplementary years until NASCAR would view a second title hit store shelves. Around 1994, Papyrus Design Group, a higher-&-energetic simulation racing creator (at a period) that was better known for the IndyCar Racing series, released NASCAR Racing into a streaming game market. the game was a vast profits. This game, using its subverter & dynamic car natural philosophy patterns, changed a image of numbers of population that NASCAR was "just a boring sport where you watched cars make left hand turns all day" . Above a next decade Papyrus, & in time Sierra Entertainment continued producing NASCAR Racing games. A NASCAR Racing games were always praised for their accuracy inside terms of natural philosophy & track sense, by using NASCAR Ventral suction cup & Busch series drivers regularly practicing for forthcoming tracks using the games. Numerous guess that NASCAR Racing 2003 is however, years down a road, the virtually all precise stock index auto race game ever freed. Within 2003, EA Sports received an exclusive license to develop NASCAR games, eliminating Papyrus & Hasbro Interactive when competition.

NASCAR, all the same was non the fresh conception to EA Sports. A company developed NASCAR games for the original PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and Nintendo 64 under names like ''NASCAR '98. A company expanded into NASCAR games for a PC & a Gameboy Color for their 2000 game & a PS2 for their 2001 model, a survive under the old title. For 2002, a series was renamed NASCAR Thunder, & by 2003 has at the same time been freed in GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PC, and a original Playstation.

EA Sports utilized this break to split their old "Thunder" titles into ii separate racing lines; 1 for consoles focutilized in gameplay, & 1 for PC focused in technical indicator accuracy in a spirit of the old Papyrus/Sierra lines - indeed the PC game used several previous members of the Papyrus development teams. A games lean differing list, when to non confuse them, by owning a console series renamed NASCAR: Chase for the Ventral suction cup'' (freed around 2004, a information to the newly NASCAR playoff format) & the PC series renamed NASCAR SimRacing (released around 2005). Sweeping gameplay changes mean that a "Chase for the Cup" title is dropped from either a 2006 edition of the console game. Instead, a game is titled NASCAR 2006: Total Team Control. the freshly title is from either a freshly feature by which a streaming video player world health organization has mate in the field may actually switch to their mate' cars & control the babies when you took the race. These are slated to exist as freed within September 2005.

More NASCAR games include Hasbro Interactive's NASCAR Heat; Papyrus' NASCAR Legends (Based bump off of the NASCAR Racing Three engine); EA Sports NASCAR Revolution (freed between NASCAR '99 which come call at 1998, & NASCAR 2000, which come call at 2000); & NASCAR Rumble, an EA game incorporating a select few of the features of Nintendo's Super Mario Kart, but by using NASCAR car designs.

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NASCAR Heat
Official site. Contains news and information about different platforms of the game.

Armchair Empire
[6.5/10] Reviewed by: Doug Flowe. "Overall, Nascar Heat turns out to be just what you'd expect from a racing launch title." (XBox)

GamePro.com
"Until we see how well EA Sports' "NASCAR Thunder 2002" turns out, NASCAR Heat is the stock-car game to beat." Review by Jake the Snake with scores and screen shots.

Gaming Age
"This is easily a title no fan of the sport will want to be without. And it may very well make you a fan in the meantime." Review by Brian Peterson with score [B+]and screen shots.

PSX Nation
"Though not the ultimate representation of the sport we are still awaiting, the game gets the action through and should satisfy most fans with its packed gameplay. Definitely worth a look." Review by Brian Shroom Gray with screen shots and score [7/10].

Game Revolution
"While it is to some degree better than "Nascar 2001," in many ways it is almost the same game (aside from the new foil cover). It features the same oval tracks, same types of cars and the same types of options." Reviewed by Chris G with score [B-].

Gamezilla
"No matter which mode you choose, hours of adrenaline-pumping, white-knuckle racing will be at your fingertips. The developers did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of NASCAR racing." Reviewed by Richie Pattinian with score [89].

The Electric Playground
"It does have some issues, like the damage modeling, that keep it from being the ultimate hardcore simulation, but as a challenging arcade game this one certainly deserves a test drive."

GameSpot
[7.8/10] Reviewed by: Trevor Rivers. "...a good NASCAR game that will appeal to both the hard-core fans...and the borderline fans..." Includes screenshots, hints, and reader reviews. (Playstation 2)

GameSpot
[4.0/10] Reviewed by: Shane Satterfield. "...dated graphics and the surprisingly inept gameplay make for a bad combination..." Includes screenshots, hints, and reader reviews. (Gameboy Advance)


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