World Grand Prix (video game)

{{Short description|1986 video game}}

{{more footnotes|date=December 2015}}

{{Infobox video game

|title = World Grand Prix

|image = World Grand Prix EU Cover.jpg

|caption = European cover art

|developer = Sega

|publisher = Sega

|released = {{Video game release|JP|September 21, 1986{{cite web |title=Software List |url=https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |website=Sega Hard Encyclopedia |publisher=Sega Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621034428/https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |access-date=May 15, 2023 |archive-date=2019-06-21 |language=ja}}|NA|October 1986{{cite news |title=Availability Update |work=Computer Entertainer |date=November 1986 |page=14 |url=http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/newsletters/video_game_update/computer_entertainer_nov86.pdf#page=14}}|EU|November 1987{{cite web|title=Mega Cartridges |url=https://www.smspower.org/Scans/Mastertronic-Catalogue-TheSegaMasterSystemGameCatalog1987-A?gallerypage=2|work=Mastertronic - The Sega Master System Game Catalog 1987 - A - United Kingdom Catalogue|publisher=Mastertronic|accessdate=24 September 2024}}}}

|genre = Formula One racing

|modes = Single-player

|platforms = Master System

}}

{{nihongo|World Grand Prix|ザ・サーキット||"The Circuit"}} is a racing video game released by Sega for the Master System in 1986. The player drives a Formula One style car as quickly as possible while navigating through turns and other vehicles on the road. A formal scoring system is not used; players are not ranked by position unlike most racing games. This kind of timekeeping would not be used in a subsequent video game until the release of the Taito Grand Prix: Eikō e no License on the Family Computer the following year.

Reception

Computer and Video Games magazine rated the game 81% in 1989.{{cite journal |title=Complete Games Guide |journal=Computer and Video Games |date=16 October 1989 |issue=Complete Guide to Consoles |pages=46–77 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/9/98/CompleteGuideToConsoles_UK_01.pdf#page=46}}

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