Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge Longplay (Amiga) [QHD]
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Game Info
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Developer: Magnetic Fields
Publisher: Gremlin Graphics
Year of Release: 1990
Coding: Shaun Southern
Graphics: Andrew Morris
Music: Shaun Southern
Game Review & Impressions
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The Lotus trilogy is, for many Amiga owners, the best series of racing games to ever grace the computer. The games were a far cry from the substandard arcade conversions of OutRun and Chase H.Q., and a testament to what the machine was truly capable of.
Having now played the original game in its entirety, it's remarkable how little really did change throughout the series, which is really a testament to just how much Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris got right in this first iteration. The rolling road algorithm, physics and sense of speed are, for the most part, spot on, and the artwork -- undoubtedly Andrew's biggest project to date -- created a lasting aesthetic that set the series apart from its contemporaries. In fact, I would argue that the car actually looks more detailed in this particular version, thanks to rear spoiler and specular highlights on the paintwork. The decision to display the game in split-screen mode, even in single player, is a bit of an annoyance, but it is something you learn to live with.
In terms of gameplay, Lotus I features three game modes of increasingly challenging race courses to tackle. These are exclusively lap-based circuit races, and the fact the car has limited fuel means you'll need to make the occasional pitstop on longer courses. I always preferred the OutRun-style point-to-point races of the sequel, but the courses are, by and large, well designed, plus are short enough for the average racer to memorise.
Perhaps what I enjoyed most about Lotus I is the fact it's more forgiving than either of its sequels. It's entirely possible to make up lost ground when making mistakes and still take first place on the podium, and there are only a couple of races where it becomes impossible to catch up with the CPU controlled cars. I would even say that the scripting for the AI opponents is more advanced here, slowing down when coming up behind another vehicle, and actively avoiding blocked lanes and obstacles. The downside is it can make passing opponents far more difficult on tracks featuring obstacles, but it's some great attention to detail which seems to have been lost in the later games.
Finally, we come to the audio. Some folks give the music in this game a bad rap, but to his credit, I think Shaun did a pretty decent job. Players can choose from one of four different tracks to play whilst racing via a nicely presented car stereo, and it certainly livens up the action whilst driving. Most of these have a distinctly rock vibe, with plenty of guitar stabs and drum beats. Unlike many Amiga games, the original Lotus features simultaneous effects and music, but the limitations of the Amiga 4-channel sound chip mean that effects clip over the music and cause instruments to cut out, one of the mains reasons why many developers opted for music or sound, but not both.
Ultimately, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge remains one of the best 2D racers from the time period, and that's across any home format, not just the Amiga. The best would be yet to come, but the OG Lotus is an excellent racing game that fans of the genre need to experience.
Information & Trivia
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Video Notes
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Related Longplays & Videos
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Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga): • Lotus Turbo Challenge ...
Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge (Amiga): • Lotus III: The Ultimat...
Chapters
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0:00:00 Intro
0:02:04 Easy Race 01: Italy
0:04:45 Easy Race 02: Mexico
0:07:37 Easy Race 03: Iceland
0:11:59 Easy Race 04: Spain
0:15:51 Easy Race 05: England
0:20:00 Easy Race 06: Sweden
0:24:38 Easy Race 07: China
0:30:05 Medium Race 01: Finland
0:33:51 Medium Race 02: Thailand
0:38:02 Medium Race 03: Greenland
0:42:55 Medium Race 04: Uruguay
0:46:41 Medium Race 05: Morocco
0:50:39 Medium Race 06: Germany
0:55:48 Medium Race 07: Ecuador
1:00:07 Medium Race 08: Argentina
1:03:32 Medium Race 09: USA
1:08:06 Medium Race 10: Japan
1:13:52 Hard Race 01: Portugal
1:19:08 Hard Race 02: Norway
1:23:31 Hard Race 03: Kenya
1:27:45 Hard Race 04: Alaska
1:30:35 Hard Race 05: Malaysia
1:34:58 Hard Race 06: Canada
1:40:21 Hard Race 07: Peru
1:46:13 Hard Race 08: Brazil
1:51:22 Hard Race 09: Scotland
1:56:00 Hard Race 10: Wales
1:59:02 Hard Race 11: Nepal
2:04:16 Hard Race 12: Russia
2:10:06 Hard Race 13: Australia
2:14:07 Hard Race 14: Greece
2:19:33 Hard Race 15: Antarctica
2:24:14 Ending
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Wow... the sound track was awesome....
@ZoeMuller80
2 жыл бұрын
I prefer soundtrack from lotus 3
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays
2 жыл бұрын
Barry Leitch's score from Lotus 2 is my favourite, but the music the other games are great as well.
@DruggiePlays
5 ай бұрын
Banger
@MrPsarn
Ай бұрын
That is why I always play my 1980s Heavy Rock when driving, especially on the main highway!
I played all three LOTUS games on my Amiga 500. The legendary racing classic games 😺👍!
0:22 these flashing lights give me goosebumps even today, after 33 years....
Today I opened Teams on my work computer and it needs 1GB of ram just to send a text message to a collegue. I can’t believe what these guys got out of the amiga back then
The framerate on this game had me, the second I saw it in the shop window of 'Softly' in Milton Keynes. I had to have it. I didn't even really notice that half of the screen in 1p mode was filler. We played this game to death in 2p mode.
@PeacefulPirate
5 ай бұрын
Was so much fun in 2p! Had an absolute blast.
I'd forgotten how amazing the unlicensed names were in this game! 😆
This surely has to be one of the best 'old skool' car games of all time, along with Chase HQ!
Don't drive, don't even like cars...OK except the Batmobile and the Outatime DeLorean, but some racing games are just pure nostalgia gold
Love these style of racing games. Lotus 1 was a great foundation for 2 and 3 to improve on.
This is some incredible music here. Reminds me of Road Rash (Mega Drive) and Top Gear (SNES).
@karatekid6494
2 жыл бұрын
Yes spot on with Top Gear on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Top Gear was developed by the same people.
@bloodykenshiro8218
2 жыл бұрын
@@karatekid6494 Ah I love Top Gear! the first anyway, the others are kinda meh.
@karatekid6494
2 жыл бұрын
@@bloodykenshiro8218 Yes I agree with that. The sequel of Top Gear 2 was set in more countries but the gameplay is not as good for the SNES or Sega Genesis 🕹🎮
Love the first two for the Amiga, the fucking murdered the megadrive port
What an amazing sound track
Technical masterpiece. Impressive.
Never played lotus first part but lotus 2 and 3 absolutely love
gotta appreciate how much effort these guys put into the characters models, considering they were only using programs like paint at the time
El mejor juego de coches que salió en Amiga junto con el Jaguar. Ambas son las dos únicas sagas que contemplaban un calendario de pruebas completo, alrededor del mundo. Lotus además es especialmente conocido por los soundtracks que nos dejó sobre todo con el segundo y tercer título. Espero que hayas disfrutado jugándolo, el juego lo merece. Gracias y buen trabajo.
Man this takes me back. My uncle used to have this game and I would play it often when I went round his as a kid. I sucked at it but it was still soooo much fun lol
We played the shit out of it. Gearshift in this game was really clever watching it now.
Lotus esprit Turbo SE . This car will stay to be one of the best cars that ever existed . Period .
This one kinda killed the competition for a few months when it was released in late 1990. It was the smoothest and fastest racing game on the Amiga and was only topped one year later by its sequel which implemented full screen gameplay for the one player game.
@davidbevilacqua2061
7 ай бұрын
Smooth yes indeed but not fast, not at all, to say the least not fastest or realistic than Vroom or Indianapolis 500 for instance.
@deceiver444
7 ай бұрын
@@davidbevilacqua2061 Vroom was released more than one year after Lotus1 came out. When it comes to bitmap racing games, Lotus 1 and 2 were the fastest/smoothest until Vroom was eventually released during the spring of 1992
IM now 50 years old, i never heard still drum attack when the Rock plays at the tape😅Always cut drum attack voice,when the Music plays
I noticed that part of the opening soundtrack came from Top Gear. Very cool.
The best in the series for me with Lotus III coming in second. Lotus II is a little limited in that the same set of routes each time instead of laps feels less dynamic as a result of how that plays out. Lotus II is a good game at what it did though but I guess that's why they went back to including laps into Lotus III
loved this sucker to death as a kid! so much FUN!!
very nice series of race game :) just a question : how doing the numbers licence at end ? ^^
Magnetic fields were truly god tier Amiga devs. From this game and it's sequels you would think the Amiga was capable of hardware Sprite scaling along the likes of Sega's outrun and Taito's chase HQ in the arcades.
@sandycheeks7865
Жыл бұрын
I don't think any scaling was going on here, but the frame rate of the rolling road is awesome.
@stephenhall2980
Жыл бұрын
@@sandycheeks7865 yes I know it's software scaling, as in the objects are drawn with individual frames from small to large as they approach the 'camera' but it's done so smoothly that it almost looks like hardware scaling.
@sandycheeks7865
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenhall2980 Exactly. So it's not 'capable of hardware sprite scaling' is it? That exact limitation is why they had to use only 1 car for every car on the track, either in red or white, because the machine simply didn't have enough bandwidth to do full 24ish FPS with all those sprites unless they were all using the same imagary.
@stephenhall2980
Жыл бұрын
@@sandycheeks7865 yes I know the Amiga can't do hardware scaling,it was pretty much the holy grail of graphics at the time and was limited to much more expensive arcade machines. I said in my original post that 'you would think it was capable', meaning that if you weren't in the know you might think that it was capable. Maybe I phrased it incorrectly but I just meant it as a compliment to the coding skills of the developers.
I finally figured it out because this has a split screen, the first one is obvious and the second one that is below is waiting for player 2 to be ready for the race
Literaly "Top Gear Remake".
its reminds of Top Gear on snes
@mikblues_146
Ай бұрын
Same developer
Wait the intro music isn't from top gear?😅
Is it always like this, you see in split screen, the bottom half with the service guys repairing the car ?
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays
2 жыл бұрын
It's always like that
@octavian212
2 жыл бұрын
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays ok thank you very much, ❤️🙏 I love your videos, your gameplay , you've done a great job with the channel!
@stephenhall2980
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, it's just like super Mario kart on the SNES in that regard.
Lotus 1,gran gioco,ma lotus 2 e 3 sono il top!
Belle y Sebastian me trajeron aquí.
@noisychamps
Ай бұрын
The 1960s French TV series? Or the French novel? Or maybe the 80s Japanese anime? Could be the Scottish musical group from the 90s? Or even the trilogy of French live action movies released in the 2010s? One of them brought them here!
Did you achieve the rating Lotus Legend in "Hard"? I only achieved it in Easy and MEdium, because, there is one race you can only win when you start further up than last, which means, you cannot win the race before. And how do I get my Lotus licence today, whn Magnetic Fields is no more? :D
What! Peru in lotus esprit turbo challenge!? I hearded that top gear is more popular in brazil and peru, but this, could it be popular in those 2 countries?
Darius Gaiden Arcade
Lots of spelling mistakes in the first few screens!
@666cemetaryslut
Жыл бұрын
Not spelling mistakes, just the British way of spelling things
@rewind1980
Жыл бұрын
@@666cemetaryslut Nope. I am British and they are spelling mistakes. Government is spelt as Goverment and Specification is spelt as Specificaton.
@666cemetaryslut
Жыл бұрын
@@rewind1980 You did it in your comment. You say "spelt" we say "spelled"
This was one of my favourite games on the amiga