{"id":4565,"date":"2025-09-01T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2126095"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:16:40","slug":"the-best-launch-titles-ever-ridge-racer-on-playstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-best-launch-titles-ever-ridge-racer-on-playstation\/","title":{"rendered":"The best launch titles ever: Ridge Racer on PlayStation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are some games whose first encounters with you’ll always remember. For me – and I’m sure for many others – it’s Ridge Racer. First contact was made the summer of 1994 in a Hastings arcade, a whole week spent pushing 20p pieces into a machine that felt like it had been transported from some shiny new future (later that same week I’d get laughed out of a seafront dance record shop when I asked if they had any copies of Shinji Hosoe’s incredible soundtrack).<\/p>\n

And then, six months later, there was the future shock of seeing this phenomenal thing running in a friend’s living room on a Sony PlayStation that had been imported from Japan at great expense. The arcade had properly made it home, and it started a tradition of PlayStation hardware being christened with a sterling new racer from Namco – Ridge Racer V! Ridge Racers! Er, Ridge Racer 7 maybe? – that was sadly broken by the launch PlayStation 4, and we’ve been waiting for a proper new entry ever since. Oh how I miss those razor-sharp slides, those fictional sports cars that teetered on the edge of sci-fi with their outrageous designs, those thumping beats and dizzying synth lines of its turbocharged techno. <\/p>\n

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