1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally is an arcade racer from Video System, the studio behind several shooters of the era, which poured its mastery of scaled and rotated sprites into an open-road circuit inspired by the historic Italian Mille Miglia race. Instead of a closed oval, it offers a long-haul route with tight corners and period cars, a visual approach uncommon among board racers, which tended to favor futuristic supercars. Today it's a curious piece for anyone tracing the racing genre's history: it never had the impact of an Out Run or a Ridge Racer, but it shows a studio specialized in other kinds of games trying its luck with the same graphics engine.
If you liked this one
