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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

SEGA Touring Car Championship

John B. Marine | 10:11 PM | | |
SEGA's 1996 game, SEGA Touring Car Championship, features four cars and is powered by a set of high-energy songs. The high-powered realm of circuit racing is embodied in SEGA Touring Car Championship. Are you ready to take on the intense action that SEGA Touring Car Championship has to offer? I will share with you my thoughts on SEGA Touring Car Championship. And really, they will be just that- thoughts, because I never personally played "SEGA Touring Car Championship" to properly share my views. Welcome to "John's Race Space!"






SEGA Touring Car Championship


Time to talk about another 3D SEGA Racing game! Let's do this!

SEGA Touring Car Championship
^ from: (YouTube) - SEGA TOuring Car Championship is something a bit different from the usual SEGA racing goodness you may be accustomed to.

Among SEGA's many different racing games of the 1990s, "SEGA Touring Car Championship" is a racing game with fictional courses and four great racing machines from their time. The game follows a model like "SEGA Rally Championship" in which you run laps around a closed circuit while trying to pass all of the cars on the track. While you probably are not going to win all three races, you at least need to complete all of the races as best as you can. There is a bonus fourth race if you manage to win the final race. All of this racing madness is fueled by a high-energy soundtrack from one of Japan's hottest music labels- Avex. While this game did have a focus on realism, it was nowhere near the attempt of simulation-type racing as when SEGA released SEGA GT in 2000.

This game was available for arcades, the SEGA Saturn, and even PC. The PC/Saturn version of "SEGA Touring Car Championship" has a handful of differences from the arcade version. The home versions include a few extra tracks and cars to unlock as well as some extra race types. But again- I have not played ANY of these games to personally make any claims or opinions.


Now that you know a bit about SEGA Touring Car Championship, let's go through some of the details of this game.




SEGA Touring Car Championship at a Glance


You have four cars to choose from and three tracks for which to do battle on. SEGA Touring Car Championship is similar in architecture to SEGA Rally Championship, only that you are racing courses for more than one lap.


The Cars.

You can choose between four machines. Three of them are DTM-spec machines, and one is a high-powered GT car. As I'm told, that GT car isn't as capable as the other cars featured in this game. Anyhow... let's meet the four cars:

• Opel Calibra V6
This model resembles the Team Joest Opel Calibra V6 DTM touring car.

• Toyota Supra GT
This is the only Japanese car in the game. It is also the only GT-spec machine in the game.

• Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI
The only Italian car you can race in this game is the potent Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti. Besides this, there is another Alfa Romeo in SEGA Touring Car Championship that serves as the Pace/Safety Car. The 155 V6 TI is a more-than-capable DTM racing machine.

• AMG Mercedes C-Class
The sporty and luxurious AMG Mercedes-Benz C-Class DTM racer from the mid-1990s is the potent and capable track weapon from Mercedes-Benz.


That covers the cars. Now for those tracks you will be racing on.


The Tracks.

Three tracks are on offer for you to race on. Here is a look at all three (NOTE: all Imperial measurement conversions are rounded to the nearest thousandth):

• Country Circuit - 2.045 km (or 1.271 miles)
This simple circuit is raced on early to determine qualifying. You then race it again in a three-lap feature race.

• Grunwald Circuit - 2.605 km (or 1.619 miles)
Grunwald Circuit is a more technical racing facility where there is no margin for error. There are many tricky depths to this course to make it a real challenge for all who take on this course.

• Brickwall Town - 2.277 km (or 1.415 miles)
This urban circuit features some decisive and difficult corners. A lot of the course is fairly narrow with either grass or gravel on either side of the road. Trying to keep your car on the streets can be a real hassle here.


If you manage to place 1st after going through the three races, here is your final challenge:


• Urban Circuit - 2.105 km (or 1.308 miles)
This course is run at night on city highways and through various tunnels. The roads are very narrow- more so than around most parts of Brickwall Town. You really need to concentrate if you want to run clean laps around this course.


You know the cars, and now you know the tracks. Final Thoughts coming up...



--- SEGA Touring Car Championship: Final Thoughts ---

"SEGA Touring Car Championship" was not as well received as most other classic SEGA racing games of its time, but it is far from being anything purely bad. The rather twitchy handling of the cars and focus on realism mostly lead to its downfall. Forget about the usual thrills a 3D SEGA racing game can provide, because this does not have the kind of character Daytona USA or SEGA Rally Championship had. "SEGA Touring Car Championship," though, still remains a huge part of SEGA's incredible lineup of racing games from the 1990s.


If I ever got to play "SEGA Touring Car Championship" at an arcade or someplace, I'd like to give this game a try.





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