Final Lap
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Arcade flyer
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| Composer(s) | Shinji Hosoe |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Release date(s) | Arcade |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Up to 8 players simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Upright and sitdown |
| Arcade system | Namco System 2 |
| CPU | 2× Motorola 68000 @ 12.288 MHz, Motorola M6809 @ 3.072 MHz, Hitachi HD63705 @ 2.048 MHz |
| Sound |
Yamaha YM2151 @ 3.57958 MHz, Namco C140 @ 21.39 kHz |
| Display | Horizontal orientation, Raster, 288×224 resolution |
Final Lap (ファイナルラップ Fainaru Rappu?) is a racing video game produced by Namco, and released by Atari Games for the United States in 1987. It was the first game to run on Namco's then new System 2 hardware, and is a direct successor to Namco's two earlier Pole Position games (1982-1983). A port for the Nintendo Famicom was developed by Arc System Works.
Final Lap was the first racing game to allow up to eight players to simultaneously race on the Suzuka Circuit, in a Formula One race. This was, at the time, considered a revolutionary feature and was implemented by linking together up to four two-player sitdown-style arcade cabinets. It was also arguably the first racing game to implement "rubber banding" to ensure that less talented players were never too far behind the leader, a concept that would be taken much further by the Mario Kart series. There was also a single player mode, in which the player's score was based on how far the car travelled until time ran out or if the player completed four laps (on default settings; the arcade operator can set the lap number to be as low as three or as high as six).
The player pilots Formula One cars of the 1987 season and may choose between Williams-Honda, Lotus-Honda, McLaren-Porsche, or March-Cosworth. 1987 was also the first time a Formula One grand prix was held on the Suzuka track. The track is reproduced very similarly to even down to sponsor billboards to the original track but greatly shortened, as it takes less than forty seconds to complete one lap in the game.
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