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[AC] D1GP Arcade

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[AC] D1GP Arcade

Unread postby icycalm » 02 Sep 2007 02:57

Yet another arcade racer, this one developed by Yuke's and published by Taito.

http://d1ac.net/

I'd never heard of D1GP before, but here's the score from Wikipedia:

The D1 Grand Prix (Japanese: D1グランプリ in katakana, D1 guranpuri in romaji, abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift) is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option Magazine & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever increasing skills of drifting drivers who were dominating drifting contests in various parts of Japan. In October 2000 Inada and Tsuchiya reformed the contest as a five round series. At the following year for the following round, it was the introduction of the two car tsuiou battle, a common tradition for touge races which would become popular with car enthusiasts.

Since the beginning, the series has spread from the United States to United Kingdom and Malaysia to New Zealand with an ever increasing fanbase all over the world. The series has since become a benchmark for all drifting series and is the most highly regarded of them all. The series also helped to turn not just its personnel, it also helped to turn many of its drivers into celebrities with appearances in TV shows and car magazines all over the world along with scale models and video game appearances for their cars. Also, it would be credited for the increase several-fold in tuning businesses specialising in drift set-ups.


The official page has the Type X logo at the bottom, which must be some sort of a mistake; I can't imagine a brand-new racer being released on such old hardware. It would be like sending a lamb to the wolves... or something.
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