Gallop Racer 2001 review
Posted by @ 3:42 AM, EDT
We added a review of Tecmo’s horse racing game:

Navigating through the game is done via a large number of poorly translated menu screens. Navigator Cindy ( I swear that’s her name) guides you through the ins and outs of buying your first horse and entering your first race, but after that you are on your own. This is where the amount of detail makes the game very difficult if you don’t know much about horse racing. You can buy horses with varying attributes, strengths, and weaknesses, and its up to you to race them in the proper fields where you can utilize their talents best. This is key, because winning races has more to do with the skill of the horse, than the skill of you, the jockey. That’s not to say all you do is watch, because it isn’t, and an unskilled jockey can easily lose a race for a horse that is favored to win.