Final Lap R

Final Lap R
Developer(s)	Namco
Publisher(s)	Namco
Platforms	Arcade
Release date(s)
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Up to 8 players simultaneously
Cabinet	Upright
Arcade system	Namco System FL
CPU	Intel i960KB @ 20 MHz, Mitsubishi M37702 @ 16.128 MHz
Sound	C352 @ 16.384 MHz
Display	Horizontal orientation, Raster, 288 x 224 resolution

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 and final 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 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; 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).

External links

• Final Lap R at the Killer List of Videogames
• Final Lap R at the Arcade History database