GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a racing video game developed and published by Konami for the arcades in 1996. It is the first game in the GTI Club series. It was re-released for PlayStation Network in 2008.
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Developer(s) | Konami |
Publisher(s) | Konami |
Series | GTI Club |
Platform(s) | Arcade |
Release | 1996 |
Genre(s) | Racing |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Arcade system | Konami Scorpion[1] |
GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a game that lets players drive eight cars including the VW Golf GTI, Renault Le Car, and Mini Cooper, and the course winds through a European city.[2] It is a street racing game with non-linear maps, allowing players to take shortcuts through alternative routes such as tunnels and back alleys.[1]
The first GTI Club game was released for the arcades in 1996 by Konami, on their new Cobra arcade board.[3] Three models were released: a deluxe single-player cabinet, a dual sitdown cabinet, and a single-player sitdown cabinet.[4] In the U.S., the deluxe model was released only in very limited numbers.[5]
The game was a hit in arcades.[1] In Japan, Game Machine listed GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur on their February 1, 1997 issue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.[6]
Next Generation reviewed the arcade game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "in the end, GTI Club is a sufficiently immersive one-player game, but with a field in a Tag Race, it's a blast".[2] Hyper magazine also rated it 4 out of 5 stars.[7]