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After winning the Platinum Championship a ninth character, Rabbit, also become available. After Rabbit is unlocked one driver is randomly left out of each championship or race so that there are only eight drivers racing on the track. Rabbit featured in the [[intro sequence]] while starting up the game, and despite the requirement to |
After winning the Platinum Championship a ninth character, Rabbit, also become available. After Rabbit is unlocked one driver is randomly left out of each championship or race so that there are only eight drivers racing on the track. Rabbit featured in the [[intro sequence]] while starting up the game, and despite the requirement to unlock Rabbit, has no advantages over the other drivers. |
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== The Tracks == |
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Revision as of 13:50, 11 May 2006
| Street Racer | |
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| PAL game cover | |
| Developer(s) | Vivid Image |
| Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Super Nintendo, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Mega Drive/Genesis, PC |
| Release | October 31, 1996 (NA) |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer (1-8) |
Street Racer is a racing game, similar to Super Mario Kart, released for the Super Nintendo in 1994, the PlayStation in 1995 and also the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Mega Drive/Genesis, PC and Sega Saturn. It was made by UbiSoft and Vivid Image, and features nine cartoon characters which you could race with, one of which being a secret character unlockable by completing the game. It was one of the first games to feature multi-tap compatibility, and was the first racing game to allow 8 players to race simultaneously.
Street Racer has no connection to the Street Fighter series by Capcom, nor to the game SRS: Street Racing Syndicate by Namco.
Game Blurb
Ready for action? Want to play dirty? Can you handle the pace? Up to 8 players can race simultaneously over 27 courses in this riotous, 3D racing and fighting extravaganza! Stay alert - the more you play the more you'll discover!
Gameplay Modes
The game features the ability to race the Street Racer Championship, beginning with the Bronze Championship and moving on to the Silver Championship, Gold Championship and Platinum Championship. Each championship gave you, after winning, a new password which could be entered on the Options Screen in order to unlock new tracks.
The game also featured the ability to choose the tracks for a Custom Championship, to drive a head-to-head series with a CPU driver, and to drive individual practice races. There was also a racing game called "Rumble", the objective being to knock the drivers out of a ring. This could be raced in Championship, Head-to-head or Practice mode.
Characters
There were 8 characters who could be raced with in Street Racer. These were:
- Hodja Nasreddin - A 400 plus year old Turkish magician, described as 'friendly' and 'wise'
- Frank Instein - A 100 year old, big, green, Frankenstein lookalike
- Suzulu - A middle-aged African Voodoo specialist
- Biff - A 19 year old typical 'school bully' figure from America
- Raphael - A young, 'cool' pimp figure from Italy who 'secretly admired' Surf
- Surf Sister - A young Australian girl with a 'degree in mechanics'
- Helmut von Pointenegger - A retired German pilot and veteran of the Second World War
- Sumo-San - A Japanese sumo wrestler from the future
After winning the Platinum Championship a ninth character, Rabbit, also become available. After Rabbit is unlocked one driver is randomly left out of each championship or race so that there are only eight drivers racing on the track. Rabbit featured in the intro sequence while starting up the game, and despite the requirement to unlock Rabbit, has no advantages over the other drivers.
The Tracks
At first there are only eight tracks available on Street Racer. There is one track for each driver, named after the driver with the number one after (for example, Frank 1). After winning the Silver Championship a second track for each driver becomes available, and after winning the Gold Championship a third becomes available. When Rabbit is unlocked after winning the Platinum Championship three more tracks themed around Rabbit also become available.
Each set of tracks is themed around the track they are named after, with in-race music to suit. For example, Hodja's tracks have a magical theme and music, whilst Sumo-San has upbeat, futuristic, oriental music with a very Middle Eastern style of race track.
The Passwords
Template:Spoiler The passwords given after winning each Championship are:
- Trafik - Given after the Bronze Championship is won
- Najiti - Given after the Silver Championship is won
- Dougal - Given after the Gold Championship is won
- Turgay - Given after the Platinum Championship is won
In addition to unlocking the character 'Rabbit' and his three tracks, 'Turgay' also unlocks a fairly crude Advanced Options menu which allowed the player to increase the size of each character's car.
Release Information
Street Racer was released in 1994 and was originally sold with a Recommended Retail Price of £39.99 - This was quickly reduced to £29.99 due to a lackluster sales performance. It is now generally a hard game to find as it flopped in comparison to other 'animated' racing games of the same year, such as Destruction Derby, and some game listings fail to recognise it as an officially released game as it is no longer available new.