Death Race (1990 video game)

Death Race
Cover art
Publisher(s)American Game Cartridges[1]
Programmer(s)James M. Ferguson[2]
Keith Rupp
John Dunn
Donald Forbes
Scott Schryver
Composer(s)David Wood
Donald Forbes
Platform(s)NES
Release
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Death Race is a vehicular combat video game developed by American Game Cartridges for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and published in 1990. It is a remake of a 1976 video game of the same name.

Death Race is one of three games that American Game Cartridges published for the NES. The others are Shockwave and a conversion of the 1986 light gun arcade game Chiller. They released all their titles in 1990. In Australia the game was distributed by Home Entertainment Suppliers, and was only available to members of their "HES Game Club".[3]

Nintendo Player described Death Race as the "spiritual predecessor" of the Grand Theft Auto game series developed by DMA Design, which applies major gameplay elements from Death Race.[4] BMG Interactive published the first Grand Theft Auto game in 1997.

  1. ^ Profile of Death Race Archived 2014-04-08 at the Wayback Machine at NesCartDB
  2. ^ Project leader of Death Race Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine at NES Warp Zone
  3. ^ "Death Race and the HES". NES World.
  4. ^ "Comparing Death Race to Grand Theft Auto". Nintendo Player. [dead link‍]