Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit
Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit — frequently asked questions
- What platforms is Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit on?
- Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit was released on Sega CD.
- When did Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit release?
- Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit was first released on April 23, 1994.
About Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit
Beyond the Limit is a racing sim based on Formula One circa 1993. It features real-life cars, tracks, and drivers from the world of F1. The graphics in Beyond the Limit are created from scaled and rotated sprites that create a 3D effect. It also features a lot of full-screen video clips taken from Fuji TV's coverage of actual races.
Summary via IGDB.
Game details
- Platforms
- Sega CD
- Developer
- Fuji Television
- Publisher
- Sega
- Game modes
- Single player, Split screen
- Series
- Formula 1
Details via IGDB.
Collector value & authenticity
Sega CD · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-11-02
Other releases and variants
| Release | Loose | Complete | Sealed |
|---|---|---|---|
| European (PAL) release (Formula One World Championship: Beyond The Limit) | $29 | $58 | — |
| Japanese release (Heavenly Symphony: Formula One World Championship 1993) | $5 | $11 | $23 |
How often it sells
- Loose: about once a month
- Complete: about 2 times a month
- Sealed: about 5 times a year
Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-11-02.
Price over time
- Loose
- Complete
A loose copy sold for about $1.78 in Oct 2008, $12.38 five years ago, and $11.06 as of Nov 2026.
Show as table
| Month | Loose | Complete |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2009 | $1.39 | — |
| Jan 2010 | $1.15 | — |
| Jan 2011 | $0.99 | — |
| Jan 2012 | $1.64 | — |
| Jan 2013 | $0.98 | — |
| Jan 2014 | $3.32 | $7.94 |
| Jan 2015 | $4.99 | $6.99 |
| Jan 2016 | $4.00 | $7.99 |
| Jan 2017 | $1.00 | $8.75 |
| Jan 2018 | $6.24 | $8.57 |
| Jan 2019 | $5.97 | $8.48 |
| Jan 2020 | $9.98 | $10.82 |
| Jan 2021 | $8.75 | $11.75 |
| Jan 2022 | $12.72 | $14.82 |
| Jan 2023 | $13.48 | $21 |
| Jan 2024 | $8.50 | $17.49 |
| Jan 2025 | $9.90 | $15.88 |
| Jan 2026 | $10.79 | $18.94 |
| Nov 2026 | $11.06 | $19.24 |
Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Nov 2026.
Release record
| Territory | Date | Product number | Barcode | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | August 1994 | 4608 | 010086046083 | — |
| Europe / PAL | September 1994 | 4608-50 | — | — |
| Japan | 23 April 1994 | G-6034 | 4974365560348 | ¥7,800 |
- Japan: Released as Heavenly Symphony: Formula One World Championship 1993.
- Region
- NA+EU+JP
- Released
- 1994
- Authenticity
- Low
Sega's own Formula One racer, built around the Sega CD's scaling and rotation and best judged as a simulation rather than an arcade game.
This is the Sega CD version of Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, developed and published by Sega with production assistance from Fuji Television. It came out in Japan on 23 April 1994 as Heavenly Symphony: Formula One World Championship 1993, in North America in August 1994 and in Europe in September 1994. It leans heavily on scaling and rotating backgrounds and sprites, with limited texture-mapped polygons.
Sega Visions highlighted its digitized racing footage, first-person view and a 1993 mode that lets you re-enact actual races from the previous season by taking over a real driver's car at a key point. Sega Pro called it an authentic Formula One simulation and the only decent racing sim on the Mega-CD.
What the press said at the time
| Sega Pro Issue 41 | February 1995 | 87% |
| Famitsu | 26/40 | |
| GamePro | 13.5/20 |
“Tremendous, fun-packed racing with a reál difference; all that FMV! Being able to play out events in the 1993 season is just the icing on the cake.”
“Sega of Japan and Fuji Television have come together to produce the most realistic, exciting racing simulation to ever grace a video game … FI World Championship blends the best of arcade gameplay and detailed Grand Prix simula- … tion with a feeling of sports role playing that is beautiful to behold.”
“However, using the mass storage of CD, Formula One goes beyond being a mere conversion. For a start, being an officially licensed FI product, the presentation is a lot smarter.”
“Known as Heaveniy Symphony on import, this authentic F1 simulation is the oniy decent racing sim on the Mega-CD.”
Undated scores are from the review table in the game's Wikipedia article, limited to reviews of the Sega CD version.
Before you buy
Among North American Sega CD games the US disc sits below the middle on price. The European disc usually costs much more than the US one, loose and complete, while the Japanese disc usually costs roughly half as much. The European disc needs a European Mega-CD and the Japanese one a Japanese Mega-CD. Check that the case and manual match the game.
Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit screenshots
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