Virtua Racing is a home port of Sega's first ever 3D, polygon-based racing game for the arcade. The game consists of racing Formula-1-looking cars around a beginner, intermediate, or expert track, competing against a second player or computer drivers. Despite having Formula-1 cars, the game controls are very "arcadey" and players can see the leap they made from here to Daytona.

The Megadrive/Genesis version of Virtua Racing is of note as it is the only game for the system which features the SVP chip (Sega Virtua Processor). The chip is a 3D processor built into each cartridge (the console itself had no 3D capability) and is very similar to the SNES's SuperFX chips, used in games such as Starfox and Stunt Race FX.

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Alternate Titles

"バーチャレーシング" -- Japanese spelling

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Virtua Racing series

Merchant	Title	Platform
	Virtua Racing	Genesis
	Virtua Racing
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The Press Says

GamePro (US)	Jun, 1994	5 out of 5	100
The Video Game Critic	Apr 24, 2004	A	100
All Game Guide	1999		90
Mega Play Magazine	Jul, 1994	86 out of 100	86
Game Players	Apr, 1994	85 out of 100	85
High Score	Aug, 1994	4 out of 5	80
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	Aug, 1994	8 out of 10	80
FLUX	Apr, 1994	7.9 out of 10	79
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	Jun, 1994	7.8 out of 10	78
Sega-16.com	Mar 22, 2007	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

This game caused a quite intresting problem for owners of phones. The SVP chip had a frequency that was so high it was picked up by the phones and they rang like crazy. It was enough to sure cause headaches!

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Tibes80 (1496) on Jan 08, 2003.