Virtua Racing

Flat-shaded polygon tracks with switchable camera angles moved racing off sprite scaling.

Released 1992 Developer Sega AM2 Publisher Sega Platform Arcade Genre Racing Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Virtua Racing inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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