Are you all set?
I can appreciate that it’s a thoroughly annoying thing to say to anyone under the age of 30, but you really had to be there with games like Namco’s Ridge Racer. The original 1993 arcade release was nothing short of breathtaking—so much so that when EDGE magazine put a screenshot on its cover, I remember thinking it simply couldn’t be an actual video game—and it delivered blisteringly fast, textured-mapped 3D visuals the likes of which we simply hadn’t experienced up to that point.
While the subsequent PlayStation port would generate a legion of new fans and the series would continue through the decades, the original coin-op holds a truly unique place in gaming history—so the fact that it’s now possible to play on your shiny new Switch 2 (as well as other platforms) is a genuine ‘pinch me’ moment for me personally, despite the fact that the average smartphone is many, many times more powerful than the Namco System 22 arcade board which powered the original ’93 coin-op.
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