Gale Racer
Gale Racer is an illegal race set on a public road, and the main purpose of the game is to cross the United States. Starting in Los Angeles on the West Coast, it travels across state lines to cities such as…
Gale Racer is a racing developed by System Sacom, released 2 December 1994 on Sega Saturn.
What Gale Racer is
Gale Racer is a racing game developed by System Sacom and released in 1994. It was published by Sega. It is available on Sega Saturn only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gale Racer shares similar gameplay to Rad Mobile, with the player driving eastwards across America against rival cars against a strict time limit. There are, however, a number of graphical and technical changes to better suit the Saturn's hardware, and rather than one continuous journey, "areas" are split up by loading screens. There are also 23 rival cars, as opposed to the arcade's 14. Gale Racer has the player drive a completely different vehicle to Rad Mobile, and renders all the rivals as polygons, rather than resized sprites. Similarly to Rad Mobile, a Sonic the Hedgehog "mascot" hangs from the car's ceiling (resembling his look in Sonic the Hedgehog 3), however others from the Sonic…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective.
What it launched against
Gale Racer launched on 2 December 1994, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, Umihara Kawase and Breath of Fire II.
Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, Umihara Kawase, Breath of Fire II.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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