Spirit of Speed 1937

Spirit of Speed 1937 is a 1999 racing video game developed by Broadsword Interactive and published by Hasbro Interactive for mh:awesomegames:Microsoft Windows, only in Europe. The Dreamcast version of the game was published by Acclaim Entertainment under the LJN label. The game recreates 1930s racing, using classic model vehicles on famous race tracks around the world. The mh:awesomegames:Game Boy Advance version of the game was planned to be released by Infogrames, but was eventually cancelled for unknown reasons.

Why It Has the Spirit of Slowness

 * 1) It has load times that often take up to 10 minutes or more.
 * 2) Even though it's claimed to be a realistic racing title, there are no mechanics that many racing games at the time had, such as fuel usage, pit stops, or customisation of the car, such as the suspension, engine and brakes.
 * 3) Despite the course designs resembling well known tracks such as Monza Speedway and Roosevelt Circuit, they feel lazy, and look the same half the time.
 * 4) Unresponsive and slippery controls, as a single twitch of the thumbstick can send your car into a wall. often Some argued that this is a result of the game trying to simulate 1930s car movement.
 * 5) Appalling frame rate: despite being on the Dreamcast, a powerful console, the game rarely manages more than 10 frames per second. The PC version rarely slows down at all.
 * 6) Awful and choppy graphics for the standards of the Dreamcast. The tracks look like model playsets, and the cars look as if they were taken from an remote-controlled car set. Many of the cars even have inaccuracies with their models. In fact, Grand Prix Legends, a 1998 game released on Windows PCs, looks superior.
 * 7) Poor and often too loud sound effects. The car engines sound like broken lawn mowers, the type squeals are practically ear bleeding, and certain sounds are missing like the crowds in the stands.
 * 8) Despite the soundtrack trying to sound like music from the 1930s, it's lackluster and forgettable, only consisting of mainly trumpets.
 * 9) A supposed "realistic" mechanic is your car can catch on fire if you overheat the engine. The problem is, there is no indication on the speedometer of when it will happen, so there's a big chance that your car's engine will explode for no reason and eliminate you from the race.

Reception
Spirit of Speed 1937 for the Dreamcast is considered to be one of the worst games of all time. The game has a 39.33% from GameRankings. The game received mixed reviews in Japan, Famitsu gave it a 25/40.

In an episode of James and Mike Mondays about this game, James Rolfe revealed that he got requests to make an Angry Video Game Nerd episode on this game, and tried to make one, but while recording the game’s footage he and Mike Matei realized that there was nothing to say (eg. mock/make fun) about it and thus said episode was never made.

Eventually, in the final part of AVGN's 3-part special Episode 200 — where the Nerd reviewed the remaining games of the LJN library, he finally played the game and reviewed it. He criticised the graphics and controls, saying that "the cars handle like you're dragging twenty tons of bowling balls and donkey dung."

Tat's worst games video get ranked on 97 out 100.

There is no known reason for why Acclaim decided to publish this under the LJN name, but some say it was because they knew they had a terrible game on their hands.

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