| GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur | |
| Developer: | Konami |
| Publisher: | Konami |
| Series: | GTI Club |
| Platforms: | Arcade |
| Genre: | Racing |
| Modes: | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade System: | Konami Scorpion |
GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a racing video game developed and published by Konami for the arcades in 1996. It is the first game in the GTI Club series. It was re-released for PlayStation Network in 2008.
GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur is a game that gives players a choice of eight cars including the VW Golf GTI, Renault Le Car, and Mini Cooper, and the course winds through a European city. It is a street racing game with non-linear maps, allowing players to take shortcuts through alternative routes such as tunnels and back alleys.[1]
The first GTI Club game was released for the arcades in 1996 by Konami, on their new Cobra arcade board.[2] Three models were released: a deluxe single-player cabinet, a dual sitdown cabinet, and a single-player sitdown cabinet.[3] In the U.S., the deluxe model was released only in very limited numbers.[4]
The game was a hit in arcades.[1] In Japan, Game Machine listed GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur on their February 1, 1997 issue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.[5]
Next Generation gave it four stars out of five and called it a "sufficiently immersive" one-player game.[6] Hyper magazine also rated it 4 out of 5 stars.[7]