Horse Racing Video Games

[stonegossard]

Originally Posted by letswastemoney

Want to email me the famous horse files??

I would.....but they are only like 9.95 a for a group. These guys put together a great game...they deserve the money.

Seriously though, is worth downloading the free version with the fantasy/made up horses to try out. Then buy the real horses. The game also comes with a file of like 400 races already set up...you just have to pick which horses to run in em (everything from The Kentucky Derby to The Long Acres Mile at EMD). You can also create your own races at any track out there.

Like I said....is the best game out there...

[eajinabi]

Originally Posted by stonegossard

I would.....but they are only like 9.95 a for a group. These guys put together a great game...they deserve the money.

Seriously though, is worth downloading the free version with the fantasy/made up horses to try out. Then buy the real horses. The game also comes with a file of like 400 races already set up...you just have to pick which horses to run in em (everything from The Kentucky Derby to The Long Acres Mile at EMD). You can also create your own races at any track out there.

Like I said....is the best game out there...

Looks AWESOME!

[Danzig]

there was a game out years ago for pc for horse racing. you didn't actually get to be the jock, but you had a 'draft' where you picked horses (the computer stables picked as well) and then you had to figure them out, train them, and enter the horses in the right races. i remember one horse only ran well at 7 furlongs on dirt....
anyway, i enjoyed it, but that was so long ago. haven't found anything like it since.
i have the bc game, but it's waaay too easy.

[31lengths]

Are there any U.S. tracks on Gallop Racer 06 ?

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by 31lengths

Are there any U.S. tracks on Gallop Racer 06 ?

I'm not sure if they are real american tracks (in how they are actually modeled in the software), but they do list Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Miami and a few other cities. Whether these are actually like Atlantic City Race Course (doubtful), Philadelphia Park (maybe), or one of the Florida tracks is unknown.

That guy who really found the real life counterparts might know though. The distances given are in furlongs like the real distances would be.

[joeydb]

Guys,

I'm at risk of going into full activist mode on this one, but I have a post in koei's forum, asking for a release of G1 Jockey 4 or the next version for the PS3. Here's the link if any of you guys want to follow suit:

http://www.koei.com/community/index....8368#msg268368

TECMO's site looks like it is not updated often and I could not find a similar ability to post to a community bulletinboard. Rumor is that KOEI and Tecmo are in talks for KOEI to buy TECMO. So it is likely that only one of the two: G1 Jockey or Gallop Racer, will survive. Of course that could mean that they will merge the best elements of both games and make one really awesome one. Let's get them to release it here too and not just in the UK and Japan.

Joe

[joeydb]

Just an update, my post on the KOEI bulletin board got absolutely no response, from their community or from the company. I'm not getting a warm feeling about the potential for an American release of their newest horse racing game.

Tecmo has also been unreachable -- e-mailed them a few weeks ago -- nothing.