We're back at the docks. Time to race! Let's go speak to Grass.
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Oh, you came to the race.
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The participation fee is 3,000 yen. I'll help you find your opponent's car.
Well, we only have 8k to our name... So we've only got two tries at this. But we're not going to lose this time… right?
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The other car is a Starlet. Shall we compete?
Well. Last time we were a bit intimidated by the Toyota Starlet. But that was before we had a turbocharger!
Yes! Let's do it!
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Good luck!
Okay. We're lined up against the Starlet along the waterfront…. We've got this!
Damn! That was a close one. 14.15 vs 14.79.
A loss, but a huge improvement over our last time... We're within a second of the opponent.
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That’s unfortunate.
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Let’s do it again? Yes / No
Yes. We can do it this time. I'm sure of it.
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The other car is a Roadster. Shall we compete?
Roadster?
Oh they mean the MX5. I had forgotten it was called the Mazda Roadster in Japan...
Or, if you played the seminal 2000 Dreamcast classic ‘Tokyo Extreme Racer 2' - it was known as the ‘Madoa Rooster’ to avoid copyright infringement. Because no law court in the world could ever be convinced that this was a MX5 / Miata.
In fact, that game had lots of amusing ‘real-model-name-slightly-different’. Amusingly, they even kept the same fonts for the car logos, with minor tweaks.
For example, the ‘Mitsubashi Lacner’
Silvia? No, it's the Olivia.
And of course, the Madoa Rooster.
Just a quick Photoshop job to modify the logos slightly and we'll avoid any litigation, right?
Unlike the Zero4Champ series, the cars weren’t licensed, meaning that…
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Oh crap! I missed the starting lights!
Oops... That was a bad start. We lost a few seconds there… 13.97 vs 15.22.
I actually did have a really bad start and hit the wrong gear.
Didn't matter anyhow. That green MX5 was even faster than the Starlet.
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That’s unfortunate.
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Let’s do it again? Yes / No
Grr. We’ll get him this time. Yes!
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The participation fee is 3,000 yen. I'll help you find your opponent's car.
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Oh no, I don’t have enough money…
Oh right... we only have 2,000 yen left!
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Please come again.
Well. We're broke again. Time to try out the Security Guard job...