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Ridge Racer Brought the Arcade Racing Experience Home 30 Years Ago Today


Ridge Racer took 3D racing games from the arcades to the comfort of your own home, through the PlayStation. Three decades on, it's still a blast.

If you’ve never played the original Ridge Racer, it was quite simply the gold standard in arcade racing for its time, alongside Sega’s Daytona USA, of course. Like the original Sega Rally’s four tracks, or Trial Mountain and Deep Forest from Gran Turismo, it’s a circuit I’ve never tired of, and have spent three decades trying to hone my approach around. Backed by a decade of covering cars and consumer tech, Adam Ismail is a Senior Editor at The Drive, focused on curating and producing the site’s slate of daily stories.

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