NASCAR Racing 2003 Season | |
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Cover art featuring the cars of Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick | |
Developer(s) | Papyrus Design Group |
Publisher(s) | Sierra Entertainment |
Platform(s) | Windows, Mac |
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Genre(s) | Sim racing |
Mode(s) | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, or NR2003 for short, is a computer racing simulator released in February 2003 by Papyrus Design Group for PC and Mac OS X. The game was the last to be released by the company before EA Sports bought the NASCAR license exclusively from 2004 to 2009 (parent company Sierra's successor company, Activision Blizzard, reacquired NASCAR rights in 2011, with NASCAR The Game: 2011). The game included all of the 2003 NASCAR season tracks and many of the drivers.
Ownership[edit]
At the end of March 2004, NR2003 was pulled from shelves when Electronic Arts acquired the exclusive NASCAR rights. In May 2004, Papyrus was shut down, and David Kaemmer bought the source code and assets a couple months later for his company FIRST, LLC where it became the base code for iRacing.com.[1][2]
NASCAR Racing 2003 > Official Patches; Sort By: 2,877 downloads. NR2003_1201_Fix.exe| 583.75 KB. Popular Battlefield 1942 Files. Battlefield 1942 Secret Weapons of WWII Demo. Attack on Pearl Harbor. Forgotten Hope MapPack #6 - Client Files.
Community[edit]
Despite being released in 2003, the sim is almost constantly being updated with new cars, tracks, and car models, as well as multiple forums and websites dedicated to the sim.
Reception[edit]
According to Edge, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season sold at least 100,000 copies in the United States, but was beaten by NASCAR Racing 4's 260,000 sales in the region. Total US sales of NASCAR Racing computer games released in the 2000s reached 900,000 copies by August 2006.[3]
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season won PC Gamer US's 2003 'Best Racing Game' award. The magazine's Andy Mahood wrote that it 'established a daunting new standard for PC racing simulations that may take years to eclipse.'[4]
References[edit]
- ^'FAQs | iRacing.com'. iracing.com. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
- ^'Papyrus Design Group, Inc. - MobyGames'. mobygames.com. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
- ^Edge Staff (August 25, 2006). 'The Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century'. Edge. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
- ^Mahood, Andy (March 2004). 'The 10th Annual PC Gamer Awards'. PC Gamer US. 11 (3): 38–40, 42, 44, 45.
External links[edit]
- NASCAR Racing 2003 Season at MobyGames
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