ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Vroom

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

2006-06-04

Stats

6,291

Genre

Conversions

Atari ST/E
PC (DOS)
Sinclair QL – CST Thor 1/20/21/XVI

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 2, Sim 2

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Unknown

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1992
Vroom
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
English, French, German
1
One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes

[1] Coding by Daniel Macré (68K game engine, physics, artificial intelligence, menus), Jean-Luc Langlois (Amiga optimisations, game engine additions, AI, mouse/joystick control) and Christian Droin (track editor + other tools; compression, file system + other environment functions; serial/null modem support).

[2] Distributed by Ubi Soft in the UK, Bomico in Germany and by Pactronics in Australasia.

[3] Game features digital sound, joystick/mouse control, savegames (championship races only) and 2-player serial/null modem support across platforms (i.e. Amiga/ST).

[4] More info. about game development is provided in the "History of VROOM (1986-1995)" documentary (in French with English subtitles done by me, Dlfrsilver /Japanese subtitles), featuring creator Daniel Macré. [Source: Wasabim, courtesy of Youtube]

[5] In December 2018, i have met Daniel Macré during a conference relative to video games and game preservation in Paris, at the National Library. He told me that the Amiga version was the Atari ST original version of Vroom with enhancements and hyper optimised, and as a result, Vroom Amiga is better and faster than the ST release. (Dlfrsilver)

Conversion Notes

Based on 1986 Daniel Macré/Pyramide Sinclair QL release WROOM! (aka VROOM); Amiga conversion ported from 1991 Lankhor Atari ST release.
PC versions: VGA

Screen info

ECS / OCS
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Screenshot ECS no. 10

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

Box scan ECS no. 2

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 33, 4/1992, Page 80)

ECS no. 2

French Advert [Source: Atari Mania]

ECS no. 3

German Advert (Amiga Joker 3/1991, Page 112)

ECS no. 4

German Advert (Amiga Joker 9/1991, Page 23)

ECS no. 5

German Advert (Amiga Joker 12/1991, Page 22)

ECS no. 6

German Advert (PowerPlay 2/1992, Page 15)

ECS no. 7

Catalogue Entry (French) [Source: Atari Mania]

Manual info

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual (English)

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Atari ST/E
Conversion Atari ST/E

Conversion Atari ST/E

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

Sinclair QL – CST Thor 1/20/21/XVI
No conversion screens found.

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Action
31 (Apr 1992)
85%
2
Amiga Computing
48 (May 1992)
93%
Darren Evans
1
Amiga Force
1 (Nov - Dec 1992)
86%
Phil King
Roundup
0
Amiga Format
34 (May 1992)
91%
Ed Ricketts
2
Amiga Joker
Mar 1992
76%
Carsten Borgmeier
1
Amiga Mania
Jun 1992
88%
Ashley Cotter-Cairns
1
Amiga Power
12 (Apr 1992)
88%
Stuart Campbell
2
Australian Commodore and Amiga Review
Vol 9 No 4 (Apr 1992)
89%
Phil Campbell
0
CU Amiga
Apr 1992
71%
Steve Merrett
1
Games-X
25 (Oct 1991)
4/5
Brian
1
The One
43 (Apr 1992)
89%
Jools Watsham
2

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Power
10 (Feb 1992)
Preview
1
Génération 4
Été (Summer) 1991
Preview
0

ECS / OCS

Lore Score: 84%

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