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Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle

Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is a racing arcade game developed by Namco and released in 2000. It runs on Namco's System 246 hardware and is the ninth installment in the Ridge Racer series. The game is inspired…

28 November 2000

Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is an arcade developed by Namco, released 28 November 2000 on Arcade.

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What Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is

Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 2000. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is a racing arcade game developed by Namco and released in 2000. It runs on Namco's System 246 hardware and is the ninth installment in the Ridge Racer series. The game is inspired by Ridge Racer V for the Sony PlayStation 2, which was released earlier the same year. In this version, two players can race head-to-head, a reduction from the eight-player support found in Ridge Racer 2 and Rave Racer. Players can choose from six new cars and race on one of five new tracks: "Park Town," "Outer Pass," "Above the City," "Bayside Line," and "Sunny Beach." The "Sunny Beach" track is a shorter version of the original Ridge Racer track, featuring updated graphics. To…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Ridge Racer series

Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is the tenth of 28 entries we hold in the Ridge Racer series. It arrived 9 months after Ridge Racer 64. The next entry was R: Racing Evolution in 2003.

See all 28 Ridge Racer games in release order →

What it launched against

Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle launched on 28 November 2000, within three weeks of Pokémon Crystal Version, Counter-Strike, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and Hitman: Codename 47.

Released around the same time: Pokémon Crystal Version, Counter-Strike, The Operative: No One Lives Forever, Hitman: Codename 47.

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When did Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle come out?
Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle was released on 28 November 2000 for Arcade.

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