YMMV / Monaco GP

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• Awesome Music: The uplifting Theme of Monaco that plays at the staff credits for the Genesis version of Super.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Super Monaco GP featured an Ayrton Senna look-a-like as a boss and Sega worked with him for the sequel, as he was very popular among the Japanese. During the 1993 European GP, however, Senna and Sega were at odds as Senna was running under McLaren and Sega was sponsoring Williams. Senna famously held a trophy featuring fellow speed icon Sonic the Hedgehog after his incredible victory at the Donington Park circuit and had a sticker of a squashed hedgehog on his car to provoke his rivals.
  • If you do the most logical progression in Super Monaco GP's World Championship mode, you will be in the Firenze seat, trying to beat Alain Prost expy A. Asselin and get Madonna's seat; upon beating him, Asselin will be dropped to Firenze. Prost would move to Ferrari the very next year after the game was released.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Ultimately what makes the Arcade version inferior to the home console versions. While it has very good visuals for a 1989 game, it only lasts a qualifying lap and two three-lap races; contrast it with the home console versions' World Championship, which spans 16 five-lap races, each one with their own qualifying lap, and including an extra scenario for the second season (meaning it's 32 races overall). And the Genesis version also includes the Arcade mode.
• Polished Port: An unusual case with the Genesis version of Super Monaco GP. While the car handles very well and the framerate is good, graphics-wise it doesn't hold a candle to the Arcade version, only looking a little better than some late NES games. On the other hand, the Genesis version increases the game's length by an overwhelming margin, not only keeping Arcade's only mode, but also including a World Championship mode that includes all circuits from the 1989 season as well as a career progression system (where you compete with other drivers in order to geat their seats in increasingly powerful cars) that lasts two seasons. This proved popular enough to make a console-exclusive sequel whose main focus is the World Championship mode (with the Arcade mode being spiritually succeeded by the Senna GP mode, which had the same rules but three different tracks to play on).

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