The debut title for the Namco System 22 arcade system in 1992, this was the first video game with texture-mapped 3D polygons and Gouraud shading. It was later re-worked into Ridge Racer, released the following year in 1993.
Visually the game takes a different approach compared to previous PlayStation titles. The game looks more realistic and has a darker color scheme, it takes a lot of this from the arcade game in the Ridge Racer series, Rave Racer. For the first time in the [...]
You pilot a winged bicycle and try to earn points by popping the hot-air balloons you see ahead of you. You have to reach the minimum quota of points in order to advance.
Ridge Racer 2 (リッジレーサー2 Rijji Rēsā Tsu?) is a racing arcade game that had been released by Namco in 1994; it runs on their System 22 hardware, and as the name suggests, it is the sequel to Ridge Racer which had been released in the previous year. As with [...]