Le Mans (Game)

Le Mans

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A 1970's arcade racing game and successor to games like the Gran Trak and Indy series, It is known for switching between 10 different tracks on each lap, most of which are based on real-life circuits.

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Le Mans is an overhead car racing game developed and published by Atari (Company) for arcades in North America in 1976, with Namco (Company) later distributing it in Japan. A successor to the studio's earlier game Gran Trak 10 (Game), Le Mans tasks players with driving a high-speed race car around a race track, which swaps to a new track on each lap. Most of the courses are recreations of real-life tracks (starting with the eponymous Le Mans (Location)). Like Gran Trak 10, the game is upright, with a 10" steering wheel, 4-speed H-shifter, and metal pedals for brake and gas. The objective of each credit is to complete as many tracks as possible within the time limit. The game is known for its "Extended Play" feature, where higher-scoring credits extend the timer. Some of the gameplay mechanics later made its way to the 1978 game Sprint 1.

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Each credit has players progressing through six recreations of real-life circuits, in order:

If all six courses are completed within the time limit, players then progress through two of the four "mystery tracks" at random.

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