Motor Raid
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| Developer(s) | Sega |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Designer(s) | SEGA AM R&D Dept.-1 Developers |
| Platform(s) | Arcade only |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Up to 4 players simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Bike (Manx TT Superbike Conversion Kit) |
| Arcade system | Sega Model 2A |
| Display | 640x480, 31 KHz ( 360i to 57i of Screen Resolution ). |
Motor Raid (モーターレイド) is a racing video game released by Sega on its Model 2A arcade system board in 1997.
With its futuristic bikes and the rare ability to fight while racing the game bears obvious inspirations from both the Akira (1988) and Venus Wars (1989) manga and anime adaptation, Psygnosis's Wipeout (1995) for its futuristic planets, and from the Road Rash (1991) game series.
The game is available as a single or two-player cabinet. Game modes include "Championship" and "Practice" and there are four playable characters, Geila, Gunz, Io and Robin, with the fourth one being female.
Unlike other Model 2A racers like Manx TT Superbike or the original Sega Rally Championship, Motor Raid was not ported to the contemporary Sega Saturn or Windows 95. However, efforts to emulate the game on Model 2 emulators have been successful since 2004, thanks to ELSemi or Nebula.
As with most motorcycle arcade games, acceleration is performed by twisting the handle, steering is accomplished through leaning the bike's body left or right, and braking is done by squeezing a lever. As the race progresses, a three-layer turbo gauge will begin to fill automatically and the player can choose among three types of boosts: a short blue boost that's ready when the boost gauge quickly fills to 100%, a stronger green boost that requires the boost gauge to fill up to 200%, and an extremely powerful orange boost that can only be unleashed when the boost gauge fills to the maximum level of 300%, and will allow the character to critically knock out opponents who are in the way (to reflect the game's tagline, "No mercy for anyone who stands in the way"). Boosts are activated by waiting for the gauge to fill up and twisting the acceleration handle twice whenever the desired boost type is available.
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