Video: the story of racing game Gran Turismo

Posted on 28-08-2014 at 20:01 by JordyS – 29 Comments”

We can safely say that few racing games such an impact as Gran Turismo. It had, however, not much close to creator Kazunori Yamauchi was never his dream project started.

Yamauchi knocked out early in the nineties at Sony at the door for its leaders to convince his plans for a realistic racing game. The Japanese were new on the spelletjesmarkt and durst no money to put on the plan of the young designer. Yamauchi then worked on a Mario Kart-like game, but was soon in the holes that he is not happy.

The Japanese car enthusiast founded in 1997 his own studio: Polyphony Digital. The rest is history, because in the years that followed, grew Gran Turismo into a phenomenon. The game went much as 70 million times over the counter and made the last few years even for the link between the virtual and real racing world with the GT Academy.

The story of Yamauchi and Gran Turismo was logged in the half hour documentary KAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide. That movie you could till now only be available via Hulu, but is now also available on YouTube.

Autoblog Tip: Yamauchi can be a cursusje use English, so if you want his story may well follow, then put the subtitles on.