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The game also featured a [[Dunlop]] "style" tire bridge over the track but instead said "NAMCO" on it. |
The game also featured a [[Dunlop]] "style" tire bridge over the track but instead said "NAMCO" on it. |
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+ | Upon release, the game became a major success in [[Japan]], where it reached second place in the country's 1989 arcade rankings.<ref>[http://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.video/%22winning$20run%22/rec.games.video/bJU_Gn8HdLA/tH1haoI5_4gJ Top arcade and home games in Japan and the US], 11/13/1989</ref> |
==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 01:11, 16 April 2014
Winning Run is a video game, released by Namco in 1988. It was the first game to use the Namco System 21 hardware. The music was composed by Hiroyuki Kawada.[1]
It was housed in a movable (silver, orange) cabinet. In traditional NAMCO racer genre of the time it the player had a choice of game modes to play: Easy Drive (Automatic Transmission and slower game play) Technical Drive (Manual Transmission and faster game play) The game also featured a Dunlop "style" tire bridge over the track but instead said "NAMCO" on it.
The music had similarities to Namco's Final Lap using the short jingles when the race started.
Upon release, the game became a major success in Japan, where it reached second place in the country's 1989 arcade rankings.[2]
References
- ↑ namco G.S.M. winning run
- ↑ Top arcade and home games in Japan and the US, 11/13/1989