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This game also exists for Amiga 500, Atari ST and Amstrad CPC, and while the game is quite similar on these computers it is clear that it did not fit very well into 48k of ram. Amiga and ST has digital music at the Turbo Cup picture, and the CPC has AY music, while the Spectrum version has nothing. The three other versions has 4 selectable laps, the Spectrum version has only 1 lap, and you are thrown directly into the game without having any control menus.

This is a game where you have to get the best time, it seems to be impossible to beat the rivals and end up 1st -this goes for any of the versions. The rivals cars is faster than your car, if you touch them you will spin around while they continue like nothing happened, and if you go too fast into a turn you will also spin around. You have to race qualification and then a 2 laps race, and then the game loops to qualification again.

By missing 3 of the 4 courses and having the poorest scaling and framerate the Spectrum version is very disappointing for a 1989 release, especially considering racing games with much better engines like Crazy Cars 1-2 and Wec Le Mans was released in 1988.

The game was published by Loriciels in 1989.

Rating = 72%

The version in this video is a Beta Disk version (The program SAMdisk can change scl files to trd files so it also can run on DivIDE / DivMMC devices) and it is made by Slider in 2014 and it can be downloaded here: https://vtrd.in/gamez/t/TCUP_SG.zip