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Tokyo Xtreme Racer series

Wangan Dead Heat

Never dreamed having an expansive sportscar and an amazing babe at your side? If so this game is for you. Get the car and maybe the babe will come if you are good enough. And maybe she will let you see a…

15 December 1995

Wangan Dead Heat is an arcade developed by Genki, released 15 December 1995 on Sega Saturn.

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What Wangan Dead Heat is

Wangan Dead Heat is an arcade game developed by Genki and released in 1995. It was published by Pack-In-Video. It is available on Sega Saturn only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Never dreamed having an expansive sportscar and an amazing babe at your side? If so this game is for you. Get the car and maybe the babe will come if you are good enough. And maybe she will let you see a little more of her... Depending on you... Wangan Dead Heat is a spin-off of Genki's Shutokou Battle (aka Tokyo Xtreme Racer) series. This Saturn game combines the typical arcade racing of the time with a career mode consisting of the player attempting to woo women by driving fast and safe. FMV's would play depending on how the player did, and being successful eventually leads to (supposedly) the women stripping their clothes, hence the 18 age rating. The Worldwide release, named Highway…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and erotic. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series

Wangan Dead Heat is the third of 22 entries we hold in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series. It arrived 10 months after Drift King Shuto-kou Battle 2: Tsuchiya Keiichi & Bandou Masaaki. The next entry was Highway 2000 in 1996.

See all 22 Tokyo Xtreme Racer games in release order →

What it launched against

Wangan Dead Heat launched on 15 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters and Rayman.

Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Rayman.

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When did Wangan Dead Heat come out?
Wangan Dead Heat was released on 15 December 1995 for Sega Saturn.

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