Tokyo Highway Battle
Players navigate through three Tokyo highway circuits driving one of 72 high-performance sports cars. While driving, players earn valuable points which are used to purchase upgrade parts for their vehicle. To…
Tokyo Highway Battle is a racing developed by Genki, released 3 May 1996 on PlayStation.
What Tokyo Highway Battle is
Tokyo Highway Battle is a racing game developed by Genki and released in 1996. It was published by Bullet-Proof Software. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Players navigate through three Tokyo highway circuits driving one of 72 high-performance sports cars. While driving, players earn valuable points which are used to purchase upgrade parts for their vehicle. To ensure the most realistic gameplay, developers Bullet-Proof Software, enlisted the guidance of racing champion, Keiichi Tsuchiya and automotive specialist, Masaaki Bando Under their supervision, Bullet-Proof painstakingly recreated the physics and handling of each race car. The Saturn release, only released in Japan, included many more videos and starred the Drift King himself through these cutscenes.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series
Tokyo Highway Battle is the fifth of 22 entries we hold in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series. The next entry was Wangan Dead Heat + Real Arrange in 1996. Its critic score of 70 is 6 points above the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Tokyo Xtreme Racer at 84.
How it was received
Tokyo Highway Battle holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Tokyo Highway Battle launched on 3 May 1996, within three weeks of Duke Nukem 3D and Jumping Flash! 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Duke Nukem 3D, Jumping Flash! 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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All media
Dlc
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