I went for the Nissan Fairlady Z33 in ‘Le Mans Sunset’ orange - you might know this car as the 350z. The game starts with you choosing one of the low-cost starter vehicles. The game is set entirely on the streets of Tokyo, all the character names are Japanese, the cars have their Japanese denominations - and I’m fairly sure that you can’t really call them ‘imports’ when they’re racing in their country of manufacture. It’s pretty clear that the localisation for this game hasn’t extended much beyond the language switch and the deceptive name. It has sat on my shelf for a good while, but now, I'm finally going to play it. Less than a third of these games saw release in Europe, so when I found out 'Import Tuner Challenge' was the final console entry in this series, I bought it. The sprawling 'Shutokou Battle' series to which they belong, started on the Super Famicom in 1994 and was still going (albeit on Android) in 2017 some 35 entries later. These were pretty simplistic efforts built around the idea that you tune your car, hit the motorway, and flash your headlights at rival street racers to battle them - it was a very addictive race-win-upgrade-race loop. Alongside this classic, I spent a lot of time playing both of the 'Tokyo Highway Challenge' games. A rare foray onto the Xbox 360 in my plan to play one title from my 603 game backlog for every day that the UK is in lockdown. Today's selection is.īack on the Dreamcast, ‘Metropolis Street Racer’ was the obvious choice for arcade racer fans looking for something to entertain.
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