Days of Thunder
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Tom Cruise's film brought NASCAR racing to the masses, and Mindscape did the same for games players with this license. If you mentally change the driver names, it can be thought of as a recreation of real NASCAR racing rather than a direct recreation of the film. 

You play Cruise's Cole Trickle character (his name, like many of the others, is slightly different to that of a real NASCAR racer of the day) against your rivals on 8 tracks, based on real-life counterparts. The races are all on ovals, although the exact lengths, corner types and gradients are varied. This means that the ideal racing line on one track can put you into the wall on another. Qualifying is incorporated alongside the races themselves.

From times to times you'll have to pull into the pit stop area. When doing so, you control the five members of the pit crew. Loosing time on pit will make you loose positions at the race. The other racers, however, never pit.

The NES version has 3rd-Person perspective only.

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Description from the packaging:

Mindscape presents Days of Thunder, the only official game of the film, to give you all the excitement of the big screen.

Your objective is to race through the season, starting with the first race at Daytona and, if you're good enough, through the stock car circuits of North America.

If your season is successful, you will return to Daytona for the overall Championship Race.
