Virtua Racing - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 32 anni fa:

Virtua Racing © 1992 Sega.

Virtua Racing is a Formula One-themed racing game in which players can race on one of three different tracks. Each track features timed checkpoints that must be reached within the time limit or the race is over. Each race consists of up to five laps with a field of 16 drivers. Players start a race in last place and must fight their way up the field.

Contact with barriers, trackside objects or rival drivers will result in a crash or, more usually, a spin-out, costing the player valuable seconds. Players can also spin-out if they stray off the track onto a low-traction surface (such as grass). Rival drivers will also try to ram the player's car.

Virtua Racing offers both manual and automatic transmission and enables players to switch between four different viewpoints on the fly. The game's three tracks are named 'Big Forest', 'Bay Bridge' and 'Acropolis' and each offers a different level of difficulty: beginner, intermediate and expert.

DATI TECNICI
Runs on the Sega "Model 1" hardware.

Giocatori: 2
Controllo: paddle
Pulsanti: 6

CURIOSITÀ
Virtua Racing è stato rilasciato in Giappone nell'Agosto 1992 e in Nord America nell'Ottobre 1992. This was the first racing game to be fully rendered with shaded, filled polygon graphics.

Sega went to General Electric Aerospace (who made the first 3-D simulators for NASA in the 1960s) in 1991-92 for assistance to develop a CG platform architecture for their new experimental 3-D system, which later became known as the Sega Model 1 hardware. Virtua Racer was the game being written to find out how viable hardware 3-D games were, it was never designed to be released, but it was such a success internally they decided to actually release it.

The first AM-2 polygon race game. The game features many epoch-making ideas: changing the point of view freely, feeling the hardness of the steering, the seat interacting with the gravity.

In true Sega fashion, their 'Virtua' prefix was used on a variety of other products such as "Virtua Fighter", "Virtua Cop", "Virtua Striker" and "Virtua Tennis".

Toshiba EMI ha pubblicato un album della colonna sonora in edizione limitata di questo gioco il 15/12/1993 (Virtua Racing & Out Runners - TYCY-5365, 5366).

Michael Jackson used to own this game (Wide Vision model, serial number: 00461579). È stato venduto all'asta ufficiale di Michael Jackson il 24 Apr. 2009.

STAFF
Director, Chief Programmer: Yu Suzuki
Programmers: Takuji Masuda, Masahiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawamura, Kazuhiko Yamada, Shin Kimura
Chief Designer: Toshihiro Nagoshi
Designers: Seiichi Ishii, Kunihiko Nakata, Toshiya Inoue
Compositore musica: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Effetti sonori: Yasuhiro Takagi
Hardware Designers: Shoji Nishikawa, Keisuke Yasui
Mechanical Effect Technician: Masaki Matsuno
Electrical Technician: Futoshi Ito
Program Supports: Ikuo Taniguchi, Yasuhito Shoji, Satoshi Hosoda
'Fresh' Staffs: Kohki Koiwa, Takeshi Suzuki, Toru Ikebuchi, Yasuo Kawagoshi, Yasuko Suzuki, Nobukatsu Hiranoya, Naomi Ota

CONVERSIONI

• CONSOLE:

Sega Mega Drive (1994)
Sega 32x (1994) "Virtua Racing Deluxe"
Sega Saturn (1995) "Time Warner Interactive's Virtua Racing"
Sony PlayStation 2 (2004) "Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 8: Virtua Racing Flat Out"
Sony PlayStation 2 (2005) "Sega Classics Collection"
Nintendo Switch (2019): Digital release.

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