Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2025

[McLaren]

Is it out only in certain regions? Ya'll got me checking my Steam page & it's still just on my Wishlist. It's only 2 days, but the videos got me hyped.

 

[Scaff]

Around a day to go and I keep thinking back to playing TXR: Zero on PS2 way back and the Night Warriors documentary short that was on the DVD.



Fingers crossed this is going to do well and lead to a restart of the Kaido Battle series as well.

 

[EngieDiesel]

Around a day to go and I keep thinking back to playing TXR: Zero on PS2 way back and the Night Warriors documentary short that was on the DVD.



Fingers crossed this is going to do well and lead to a restart of the Kaido Battle series as well.

This time period really is a vibe we'll never experience again outside of video games. Like street racing and modifying cars have always been a thing, sure, but there's just something about this specific era of it that makes it feel like more of a lucid dream than reality.

 

[Scaff]

This time period really is a vibe we'll never experience again outside of video games. Like street racing and modifying cars have always been a thing, sure, but there's just something about this specific era of it that makes it feel like more of a lucid dream than reality.

Yep, it's a bit like being in a work meeting and a new manager goes 'And my hobbies include, walking, socialising, and taking part in 180mph illegal street races' and no-one batting an eyelid.

We even (rumoured) had them in the UK in the mid to late '80's around the M25.

1980s motoring excess, there really were fewer rules back then

A deregulated city, high-powered supercars and stories of racing around the M25. The late 1980s were a time when British yuppies felt that anything was possible.

www.classicdriver.com

 

[MXH]

Fingers crossed this is going to do well and lead to a restart of the Kaido Battle series as well.

It looks to be a solid foundation with generally very positive impressions & feedback so far, with room for some improvments obviously.
Hopefully it'll translate into decent sales numbers as well. I'd love to see Kaido Racer 3 in the future.

 

[ZedNinetySix]

Not gonna lie, I was so sad when I finally saw Street Gambler for the first time after 24 years...

Expectations:

Reality (TXR '25):

It went from being a Mid-Engine widebody pickup-truck crazy custom build, to just a boring standard FF bone-stock looking bB 24 years later...

 

[EngieDiesel]

Yep, it's a bit like being in a work meeting and a new manager goes 'And my hobbies include, walking, socialising, and taking part in 180mph illegal street races' and no-one batting an eyelid.

We even (rumoured) had them in the UK in the mid to late '80's around the M25.

1980s motoring excess, there really were fewer rules back then

A deregulated city, high-powered supercars and stories of racing around the M25. The late 1980s were a time when British yuppies felt that anything was possible.

www.classicdriver.com

Yeah, I think that's it. Japanese media around street racing rarely touched on the fact that it was illegal, like the Fast and Furious movies did. More often it instead it explored the aspect that the quest to be the fastest racer could quickly turn into a dangerous and self-destructive obsession. TXR kinda goes into that as well since the final boss of Zero is a shadow version of your own car, since the only one left on the highway to outrace is yourself.

 

[Tornado]

3 does the same thing with like a spooky ghost version of your own car.