Keeping with all the hype of the ex-world champion, Gremlin bought the rights to produce a game based on the famous British Formula One driver, with Nigel Mansell's World Championship. Originally, it seemed that by 1992 - Gremlin felt it was time to move on from the 8-bit platforms, and their new licence was just to be a 16-bit release. However, magazines of the time would help to make Gremlin reconsider, with Commodore Format pushing their readers to fill in a small slip to ask for the game to be converted.