![]() ![]() Even custom cars got unique interior designs. Import Tuner Challenge went all the way and featured impressively detailed interiors for the time.Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix featured on the player's HUD replications of their currently driven car's gauges, or if they replaced the car's gauge cluster with a STACK data acquisition cluster, a replication of said cluster on their HUD.Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: How many racers in the Drift series react on the BBS if you defeat a Slasher (turf boss).Midnight Cinderella zigzags this she came back as a boss in Import Tuner Challenge after spending her Wanderer status in some games after TXR1. Degraded Boss: Some bosses in first Dreamcast game, like ZERO and Death Driver, were relegated to Wanderers in subsequent games.measurements, even though the game is set in Japan. Cultural Translation: The North American version converts all measurements to U.S.Creator Cameo: Kaido President in Drift series happens to be Hamagaki himself, who in real life is the founder of Genki.Celebrity Cameo: A few of the Wanderers/Trickers in both 3 and Drift happen to be the pro-racers or car mechanics in real-life, either by their actual nicknames or stage names.Players from the previous games may get the hint earlier, but later on, Iwasaki is revealed to be Motoya Iwasaki, the Speed King himself. Iwasaki, who welcomes the player to the Tokyo highway racing scene, and asks if they're aiming to challenge the Speed King. Defeating this opponent leads to a short cutscene where the driver, a Mr. Chekhov's Gunman: In Import Tuner Challenge, after the player buys their first car, they're immediately challenged to a race by a dark blue Nissan Skyline 350GT coupe with the license plate "EMPEROR" on it.Captain Ersatz: In any game that does not feature licensed cars, the game will have cars that resemble those cars with minor differences.The US version of Shutokou Battle 01, TXR3, also introduces one on your credits, to the point that it is literally impossible to challenge one of the wanderers without cheating.Cap: On your speed TXR0 caps you at 430 km/h / 267 mph, and TXR3 to 370 km/h / 230 mph.Boss Rush: In later parts of every Shutokou Battle games, especially against Nagoya bosses in TXR 3.Boss Bonanza: Some bosses in TXR3, and Phantom Nine in Import Tuner Challenge.Also applies to Drift King titles where Keiichi Tsuchiya is the Big Bad of these games.Boss Game: Kaido Battle series as well as Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix.Battle Aura: Many bosses do this in TXR3.Badass Driver: Racers on the BBS will claim that you are this when you beat them.The AI in 3 and Drift takes this up to eleven! During a race, you normally slow down before taking a corner but your rivals won't bother braking while deliberately wall-ride, hit the barriers or slam your car at 200 MPH AND taking a huge chunk of your SP bar.As for the rivals, they have a chance of hitting the dividers at Route C1. Artificial Stupidity: The "Autopilot" in 2 in the other hand, has a nasty tendency to swerve and it will occasionally launch your car (or the rival) that you're trying to beat right into an exit, ending the night.Even worse in the former where there's a chance that they'll deliberately ram you if you're trying to overtake them especially near the traffic cars. ![]() Artificial Brilliance: In 2 and Zero, if the AI is ahead of you they'll attempt to block you (and your view if you're playing with a bumper camera) in order to Hold the Line.In 3, if you beat all rival teams and bosses without achieving 100% Completion which gives you an alternate ending after beating the True Final Boss (if you're lucky as long the Game-Breaking Bug in the NTSC-U version doesn't let you down), the "Normal" ending will give you an option to either rest for a while or keep going until every single rival including Wanderers are finally beaten.And the Adventure Continues: In the first three games upon beating the True Final Boss, it's implied that there's still other drivers out there that will eventually beat you sooner or later and take your title as the fastest driver in the expressway.Amazon Brigade: You may encounter some of this in every game, most notably the Cupid Arrows team.Always Night: In most games, despite there being an In-Universe Game Clock and some opponents having to be encountered at a specific hour in order to race them, it's always nighttime, whether the clock shows midnight, 6 AM, or even noon.A God Am I: Not a villain per-se, but some high-level bosses consider themselves as this, but more literal examples go to God's Estuary in TXR3 as well as God Shift Bunta in Drift 2.The Tokyo Xtreme Racer series contains examples of the following: ![]()
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