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Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 40 ( November 1992)

A prototype of Ridge Racer (called Sim Drive) is on page 78 https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthlyIssue40November1992/page/n77 Info from Wikipedia: At JAMMA 's 1992 Amusement Machine Show in Japan, held during 27–19 August 1992, [18] Namco debuted a racing game called Sim Drive [18] [19] for the Namco System 22 arcade system board . [19] It was a sequel to Eunos Roadster Driving Simulator , a Mazda MX-5 driving simulation arcade game that Namco developed with Mazda and released in 1990. [20] Its 3D polygon graphics stood out for its use of Gouraud shading and texture mapping . [21] After a location test at the show, [19] where it was previewed by the November 1992 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly , [18] Sim Drive had a limited Japanese release in December 1992, but did not get a mass-market release. [19] It served as a prototype for Ridge Racer . [19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge_Racer_(video_game)#Development_and_release

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