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Papyrus Design Group, Inc. was a computer game developer founded in 1987 by David Kaemmer and CEO Omar Khudari. It is best known for its series of realistic racing game
Racing game

A racing game is a genre of Video games. Racing games are either in the first or third person perspective. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings, and feature any type of land, air, or sea vehicles....
s based on the NASCAR and IndyCar
Champ Car

Champ Car, was the name for a class and specification of automobiles used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades, primarily for use in the Indianapolis 500 auto race....
 leagues, as well as the unique Grand Prix Legends
Grand Prix Legends

Grand Prix Legends is a personal computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment. It simulates the 1967 Formula One season and is considered by many people one of the most realistic racing games ever released....
. Papyrus was acquired by Sierra, a division of Vivendi Universal in 1995 and Omar Khudari left Papyrus soon after that. Dave Kaemmer left Papyrus in late 2002, just before the release of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season (NR2003).






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Papyrus Design Group, Inc. was a computer game developer founded in 1987 by David Kaemmer and CEO Omar Khudari. It is best known for its series of realistic racing game
Racing game

A racing game is a genre of Video games. Racing games are either in the first or third person perspective. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings, and feature any type of land, air, or sea vehicles....
s based on the NASCAR and IndyCar
Champ Car

Champ Car, was the name for a class and specification of automobiles used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades, primarily for use in the Indianapolis 500 auto race....
 leagues, as well as the unique Grand Prix Legends
Grand Prix Legends

Grand Prix Legends is a personal computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment. It simulates the 1967 Formula One season and is considered by many people one of the most realistic racing games ever released....
. Papyrus was acquired by Sierra, a division of Vivendi Universal in 1995 and Omar Khudari left Papyrus soon after that. Dave Kaemmer left Papyrus in late 2002, just before the release of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season (NR2003). On June 5, 2003, PWF announced that many of their members would be joining a new group called FIRST.

At the end of the first quarter of 2004, NR2003 was pulled from the shelves due to license expiration. This is when FIRST (later to become iRacing) started its acquisition of the NR2003 code from Vivendi Universal.

The Papyrus web site was shut down on April 5, 2004.

On May 28, 2004 Vivendi and Papyrus sold copyrights to FIRST.net, LLC and became the registered owner of the copyrights for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season.

Games developed by Papyrus

  • Indianapolis 500: The Simulation
    Indianapolis 500: The Simulation

    Indianapolis 500: The Simulation is a 1989 in video gaming computer game. It was hailed as the first step of differentiating racing games from the arcade realm and into true simulations....
     (1989)
  • IndyCar Racing
    IndyCar Racing

    IndyCar Racing, followed up two years later by its sequel, IndyCar Racing II, is a racing game by Papyrus Design Group. It was released in 1993....
     (1993)
  • Project Nomad
    Project Nomad

    Project Nomad is a 1993 computer game developed by Intense! Interactive and Papyrus Design Group, Inc. and published by GameTek. It is a cross between a simple space simulator, a trading game and an adventure....
     (1993)
  • NASCAR Racing
    NASCAR Racing

    The NASCAR Racing series of video games, developed by Papyrus Design Group, started in 1994 and ended with the release of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season in 2003....
     (1994)
  • IndyCar Racing II
    IndyCar Racing II

    IndyCar Racing II is a racing game developed by Papyrus Design Group. It is the sequel to IndyCar Racing, and was released in 1995. A little over a year later, the game was re-released, with a few minor upgrades, under the title CART Racing....
     (1995)
  • Road Rash
    Road Rash

    Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts, in which the player participates in violent illegal street races....
     (1996) (with Buzz Puppet Productions)
  • NASCAR Racing for the Sony Playstation (1996)
  • NASCAR Racing 2
    NASCAR Racing 2

    NASCAR Racing 2 was the second game in the NASCAR Racing series. It was developed by Papyrus Design Group.The second edition of the series was released in 1996....
     (1996)
  • NASCAR Grand National Series Expansion Pack (1997) (add-on for NASCAR Racing 2)
  • SODA Off-Road Racing
    SODA Off-Road Racing

    SODA Off-Road Racing is an off-road racing simulator released for both DOS and Microsoft Windows PCs. The game was based on the SODA series but featured only fantasy vehicles and tracks....
     (1997)
  • Grand Prix Legends
    Grand Prix Legends

    Grand Prix Legends is a personal computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment. It simulates the 1967 Formula One season and is considered by many people one of the most realistic racing games ever released....
     (1998)
  • NASCAR Legends
    NASCAR Legends

    NASCAR Legends is a NASCAR racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers and released under the Sierra Entertainment marque in late 1999....
     (1999)
  • NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition
    NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition

    NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition is a racing simulator made by Papyrus. Players can race in all three premier NASCAR series There is a maximum of 39 cars to race in each series....
     (1999)
  • NASCAR Craftsman Truck Racing (1999)
  • NASCAR Racing 3
    NASCAR Racing 3

    NASCAR Racing 3 is a racing simulator produced by Papyrus Design Group in 1999. Players can compete in the NASCAR Winston Cup series and the NASCAR Busch Series....
     (1999)
  • NASCAR Racing 4
    NASCAR Racing 4

    NASCAR Racing 4 is a racing game vehicle simulation game produced by Papyrus Design Group and released in February 2001. The game was a huge step forward over its predecessor and addressed many requested features for the game....
     (2001)
  • NASCAR Racing 2002 Season
    NASCAR Racing 2002 Season

    The racing game NASCAR Racing 2002 Season or NR2002 for short, was the successor to the immensely popular NASCAR Racing 4 and the immediate precursor to the even more popular NASCAR Racing 2003 Season....
     (2002)
  • NASCAR Racing 2003 Season
    NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

    NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, or NR2003 for short, is a computer racing simulator released in February 2003 by Papyrus Design Group for Personal computer and Mac OS X....
     (2003)


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