Final Lap R

Final Lap R (ファイナルラップR, Fainaru Rappu Āru) is a racing arcade game which was released by Namco in 1993; it was one of the only games to run on the company's System FL hardware, and is the fourth game in their Final Lap series. It was also licensed by FOCA to Fuji Television (as shown on its title screen), and much like its predecessors, allows up to eight players to play simultaneously when four two-player cabinets are linked together (but Player 4 and 8's car is now affiliated with Team Benetton as opposed to Team March) - and it also features four new tracks set in Germany, Hungary, Belgium and Brazil. The colour of the CPU-controlled cars has also been changed from green to blue;[1] however, there are also black ones (which fill in for missing players at the starting line, but both types shall still cause either the player or CPU car to go spinning off the track if they are rammed, and cost the player time for the case of the former). There are also no billboards on the tracks in this game, unlike in the previous Final Lap titles - but the logos of two oil companies, Shell and Mobil 1 can be seen painted into the grass at two points on the left side of one of them (and will, like all the other grass, slow cars down if they try to drive over them).

Final Lap R
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)Namco
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: December 1993
  • WW: 1993
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Up to 8 players simultaneously
CabinetUpright
Arcade systemNamco System FL
CPUIntel i960KB @ 20 MHz,
Mitsubishi M37702 @ 16.128 MHz
SoundC352 @ 16.384 MHz
DisplayHorizontal orientation, Raster, 288 x 224 resolution

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Final lap R on their March 15, 1994 issue as being the third most-successful upright arcade game of the year.[2]

gollark: One of the pins is slightly bent, and it appears to have been exposed to enough sunlight that the labels are faded and the plastic is slightly yellowed.
gollark: It doesn't actually have a case.
gollark: Still, though.
gollark: Oh, wait, not gigabit, 100Mbps, this is an old model.
gollark: TV tuner: no, I can plug in my SDR if I need that. Parallel port: no, but it has a lot of GPIOs. Serial: yes, on the GPIO header. Floppy disk: no. DVD-RAM: no. Modem: it has gigabit Ethernet and a 150Mbps WiFi radio.

References
  1. ファイナルラップR
  2. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 468. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 March 1994. p. 29.


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