Sega Touring Car Championship [Model 2] [Arcade] by SEGA (2'56"471) [HD] [1080p]

Sega Touring Car Championship (セガ ツーリングカーチャンピオンシップ) is a 1996 racing game developed by AM Annex for the Model 2 arcade board. It was later ported to the Saturn.

Following the success of Sega Rally, the game's designer, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, again looked to create another racing title, only this time featuring touring cars. Like Sega Rally, it too would stress realism. But where Rally's focus lies primarily on its various road surfaces, Sega Touring Car Championship, as it was to be called, would instead concentrate on perfecting car physics upon tarmack.

In addition to the usual research, Mizuguchi and his newly-formed AM Annex team went out of their way gathering first-hand experience. They traveled abroad to watch real touring car races, rode shotgun with the sport's own drivers, and even spent some time behind the wheel themselves. In the end though, the result was a very slippery, difficult racer.* Between the game's insane learning curve and its focus on a relatively unknown motorsport, Tour Caring was not well received in arcades.

However, this is not a bad game! While the cars are overly-responsive, with much practice, they are indeed driveable. Beyond the handling, the rest of Touring Car is really quite impressive. The tracks are well-designed, the techno music energetic**, and the numerous real-world cars decked out with tons of actual corporate sponsorships are seriously cool! If the controls were ever tightened up in a port, I think Touring Car could stand proudly alongside the best of Sega's racers.

NOTES:

For this video, I played STCC using an Xbox 360 gamepad. While using a steering wheel for this game is helpful, the handling is still extremely touchy.

** The Model 2 emulator doesn't handle the music or sound effects in STCC particularly well. It sounds much better running on actual hardware.

Check out my other Sega Touring Car Championship videos below:

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Sega Touring Car Championship (セガ ツーリングカーチャンピオンシップ) | STCC | Sega Corporation ( 株式会社セガ) | AM Annex | Tetsuya Mizuguchi (水口 哲也) | Model 2 (モデルツー) | Sega Saturn (セガサターン) | [SS] | Arcade Game (アーケードゲーム) | Racing Game (レースゲーム) | Motorsport (モータースポーツ) | Touring Car (ツーリングカー) | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (ドイツツーリングカー選手権) | DTM | Toyota Supra GT (トヨタ・スープラGT) | Alfa Romeo 155 V6Ti (アルファロメオ・155 V6Ti) | Mercedes-AMG C-Class (AMG・メルセデス Cクラス) | Opel Calibra V6 (オペル・カリブラV6) | 1st Place, First Place | Playthrough, Longplay | Gameplay | Walkthrough, Guide | Emulator (エミュレータ) | High-definition (高精細) | HD | 1080p