Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge - NES and Game Boy Versions

NES and Game Boy Versions

The NES version featured four tracks: Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen, and Sears Point, the latter two being road courses.

In the NES and Game Boy versions, players competed against fifteen computer opponents, including Bill Elliott, who normally won races that the player did not. In rare cases, one of the other fourteen fictional computer opponents won races.

The "field of sixteen" included:

  • The player-controlled car, and
  • Bill Elliott
  • Amory Jackson
  • Bo Johanson
  • Buddy Kiss, Jr.
  • Cole Mattrick
  • Cooter Davis
  • Curtis Colwell
  • Danny Yates
  • Doc Jones
  • Jason Williams
  • Jim Bob Lee
  • Lamar Stevens
  • Mick Jacobs
  • Ray Parson
  • T-Bone Henry

Players could choose to run a single race, or the season championship. The season championship comprised eight races, consisting of each of the four tracks run twice. The distances for the races was selected by the player, and ranged from 10 miles to 500 miles. Players received points towards the championship based on the points structure of the actual NASCAR Winston Cup series. Another separate game score was tallied inside the game, awarding higher points for longer race distances chosen. A bug possibly appeared in the game, as frequently when the full distance was chosen for the season championship, some races were run with extended distances.

Players could choose to drive three different cars, a Chevrolet Lumina (#5 Mobil 1), a Ford Thunderbird (#11 Ford), or a Pontiac Grand Prix (#25 Melling Racing). In real life, the #5 car was sponsored by Levi Garrett. The sponsorships Budweiser (#11) and Kodiak (#25) are unbranded in this game. Also the #25 was actually a Chevrolet in real life. The game also featured custom set-ups, although considerably less complicated than other games of the time. Car colors were used to distinguish one make from the other: All Fords were red (with a #9 decal on the back denoting Elliott's car, the only one in this game to use such a decal), all Chevrolets were black, and all Pontiacs were green and white.

The Game Boy version was very similar to the NES version, except that Atlanta replaced Talladega. Additionally, Pontiac was excluded and players chose between a Ford, Chevrolet or Oldsmobile.

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