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Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat

Description

A three-player, Indy style racing game with five cars that each race around 15 of Danny Sullivan's favorite tracks. Players can turbo, crash, catch fire, and lose fuel, but they may pit stop for repair. Danny himself always races (yellow car) and players can earn money for more turbo, faster pit crew, acceleration, brakes, and tires.

Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat was produced by Leland in 1991.

Leland released 14 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985. Leland was based in United States.

Other machines made by Leland during the time period Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat was produced include: Ataxx, Pig Out, World Soccer Finals, All American Football, Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road Track Pak, Brute Force, and Dragon's Lair II

Specs

Name	Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Developer	Leland (United States)
Year	1991
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7512
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 25-inch monitor
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	3
# Maximum Players	3
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Steering: Wheel Buttons: 1 - Nitro Pedals: 1
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat Instructions Image
Control Panel	Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat Control Panel Image
Side Art	Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat Side Art Image

Game Introduction

Up to three players can compete in this game. Each player gets to control a specifically colored Indy car: red, white or blue. The yellow Indy car is computer-controlled and is driven by Danny Sullivan. Players may enter their initials and select one of ten different drivers (male and female). The game saves this info so that a player may continue their stats another day.

15 tracks make up the circuit:

Phoenix, 8 laps
Vancouver, 5 laps
Indianapolis, 8 laps
Long Beach, 5 laps
Detroit, 5 laps
Pocono, 8 laps
Cleveland, 5 laps
Meadowlands, 5 laps
Toronto, 5 laps
Michigan, 8 laps
Lexington, 5 laps
Elkhart Lake, 5 laps
Monterey, 5 laps
Denver, 5 laps
Indianapolis (second time), 12 laps

Game Play

The game play is similar to Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road. Try to have the quickest average speed on all 15 tracks to enter your name in Danny's Hall of Fame.

Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.99 (3 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.10

Overall Like	4.50
Fun (Social)	4.50
Fun (Solo)	4.50
Collector Desire	2.50

Technical Rating: 2.92

Gameplay	4.50
Graphics	4.50
Originality	2.33
Sound/Music	3.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet Information

The cabinet is taller than usual (about 7.5 feet) and larger (750 lbs), but it can fit through average size doors with a little twisting. The side panels have a chequered background with a picture of Danny Sullivan in full racing gear. The marquee has a picture of a race way in the background with Danny's race car in the foreground.

Conversion

This game runs on hardware very similar to World Soccer Finals and Brute Force.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 18 known instances of this machine owned by Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat collectors who are active members. Of these, 16 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat machines for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat

1991 / 2 Pages

Technical

The game hardware is a later variant of the original Cinemat hardware. There are on-screen adjustments for just about everything. A Z80 powers the game, while a second Z80 is responsible for drawing the sprites. Sound is driven by an 80186 running 3 DACs and a YM2151.

Legacy

Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road Track Pak
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Off Road Challenge

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