Ridge Racer 2

Ridge Racer 2 is a 1994 arcade video game developed by Namco and released by Namco America in the USA on August 1, 1994. Ridge Racer 2 is the second game in the Ridge Racer series. The gameplay is very much like that of the original, but unlike the vanilla version of Ridge Racer (which was a single-player game), in Ridge Racer 2 up to eight players can play simultaneously when four two-player cabinets are linked together. A player's number determines their car. There also are six new songs, including remixed ones from the original, that can be selected with the gear shifter at the start. The enormous television screen above the entrance to the first tunnel shows footage from Namco's 1979 title Galaxian (in the original, it was playing Mappy). All the billboards are for earlier Namco games, there is a rearview mirror at the top of the screen, so a player can see other cars coming from behind). There is also a change in daylight from day to night (a car driven into the track's tunnel during the day will come out the other end at night).

Arcade Database ADB

MAME romset	ridgera2
Title at ADB	Ridge Racer 2 (World, RRS2)
Manufacturer	Namco
Year	1994
Genre	Driving / 1st Person
Players	1
MAME driver status	IMPERFECT

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