{"id":92487,"date":"2019-04-25T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/reminder_sega_ages_virtua_racing_is_out_now_on_the_japanese_eshop"},"modified":"2019-04-25T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T01:05:00","slug":"reminder-sega-ages-virtua-racing-is-out-now-on-the-japanese-eshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/reminder-sega-ages-virtua-racing-is-out-now-on-the-japanese-eshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Sega Ages Virtua Racing Is Out Now On The Japanese eShop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2398d3d23258\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2398d3d23258\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Virtua Racer Single Player\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2398d3d23258\/virtua-racer-single-player.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e2398d3d23258\/virtua-racer-single-player.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Virtua Racer Single Player\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sega_ages_virtua_racing\">Virtua Racing<\/a><\/strong> has arguably been one of the most anticipated Sega Ages games since it was announced. The title includes 8-player split-screen, online multiplayer and a built-in replay mode not included in the original arcade release.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s still no word on a launch date here in the west, the game is now available in Japan for 999 Yen (roughly $9.00 \/ \u00a37.00). To celebrate this release, Sega&#8217;s Japanese YouTube channel has uploaded a new gameplay trailer, highlighting all of the above-mentioned features and more. See what all the fuss is about in the video below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Pd_GxVSS2o?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Virtua Racing began as an arcade release in 1992 and was developed by Sega AM2. It is considered to be one of the most influential games of all-time for popularising 3D polygonal graphics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be downloading this game from the Japanese eShop, or do you plan to hold out until the local release? Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtua Racing has arguably been one of the most anticipated Sega Ages games since it was announced. The title includes 8-player split-screen, online multiplayer and a built-in replay mode not included in the original arcade release. While there&#8217;s still no word on a launch date here in the west, the game is now available in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}