Electrophotonic Timesinks

This is a game I’ve wanted to write about for a long time. Not so much for its gameplay, but for its presentation and above all music, both of which I think have stood the test of time remarkably well. Warning, opinionated author!

Music from Ridge Racer Type 4. Click to play, more further down.

In early 1999, Namco released a game called Ridge Racer Type 4, the fifth (!) installment in the Ridge Racer series on the Playstation, counting Revolution. I didn’t have a Playstation at a time, but when I saw the cover of Super PLAY magazine in I think it was April of that year, I knew I had to get one. It featured long-legged mascot girl Reiko Nagase, dressed in a white one-piece dress and white boots, in front of a sleek sports car, the rest of the cover keeping to the stark black text on yellow background seen above.

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