Woohoo we did it guys! Our first win!
13.82 vs 13.97 - Close one!
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You're doing it!
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The prize money is 9,000 yen.
And we've earned a cool 9,000 yen…
Not a bad return for a total investment of around 3,300,000 yen.
Though I cut away when it came to the race, If you listen closely at the start of the video, you'll hear that Chinese CD that the Masked Wrestler and The Queen died defending.
Incidentally, the race footage I used is from another 1990s Japanese car game, Touge Max G.
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Yes, one obscure Japanese car series wasn't enough for me, so I had to go and discover another one. The Touge series had four games on the Saturn and original PlayStation. I stumbled across it on a whim, and I was quite impressed with the graphics, car selection and car configuration options for an original PSX game.
Hell, the series even has a story mode like Zero4Champ!
Most notably, and appropriately to this spergy thread however - the ‘Harbour Circuit’ course in the third game, Touge Max G, appears to be depicting the Tokyo docks and the area around Oi Wharf - you can see shipping containers, and what looks like the highways around the Daikokou parking area off in the distance!
Just another example of how embedded street racing was in the culture of the time for it to appear in games and movies.
Amusingly some of these games and their contemporaries were released in the West, under a ‘try to get a quick buck with a localisation’ type thing.
For example, Touge Max: Saisoku Driver Master, the first in the series, and a game explicitly about Japanese cars racing on Japanese Mountain ranges - was released with the much less complicated title Peak Performance, with a new cover that valiantly tried to hide the Japaneseness of it all.
Fast and Furious was still another 5 years away, and Japanese street culture was still strange and unfamiliar, so for Americans they decided to plaster the cover with a Chevy truck, a motorcycles and to imply the game had something to do with the infamous Colorado Pikes Peak Hill Climb. None of these, of course, are in the game….
It does however appear that they have a truck in the game (though it is a Toyota) and a Dodge Viper. But first they had to get rid of that whole weird Japanese story mode part. Nobody in the West wants to read....