Okay okay. I think after a hearty dinner, Hiro has come to his senses.

He really shouldn't just be giving up so easily. Even if it does involve losing the MR2... (...stupid game...)

Ok, let’s visit the Car Shop to see what other opportunities we missed during our period of mid-engined bliss…



Welcome, please come 52, please take a look.


The final 10 cars in the game are now available to us. That makes a total of 20 driveable cars, not to mention the 5 other unique ones made for the Heavenly Kings / The King.

This is a seriously impressive list of cars, especially for 1991. It also seems like they are officially licensed as well, as the brands appear in the credits which is great to see. A few years later and that would probably not have happened, in fear of promoting illegal street racing.

Here's the new cars available to us now:






















It wouldn't be this LP if I didn't bore you all unnecessarily with random information about the cars of the era, so I plan to dedicate a few of the next few posts to the circumstances around why these came about in the 1980s / 1990s, and provide a down-selection for us to take on the King.