Since it’s an arcade game, you’ll need to reach each of the different checkpoints on the track before your timer runs out. You can either take on them in the regular race mode in which you have to complete five laps and come on top, or you can go into a Grand Prix mode in which the laps are bumped up to twenty in total. There are there courses available, each more difficult than the previous one. You can change between four different camera options for the game, between the default setting, one that takes the camera a bit back, one that really pushes it back to give you a view of what is up ahead, and one that takes you right into the car’s cockpit. If you need to break, perhaps when taking on a sharp turn, you can do so with the B button. If you select manual gear, you can shift up by pressing the R or ZR button and can shift down whit the L or ZL buttons. Since Virtua Racing is a racing game – it’s right there in its name! –, you’ll steer by pressing left or right on the D-Pad or the left analog stick, or you can go all in and use motion controls so that you can use the Nintendo Joy-Con/Pro controller as a steering wheel. Perhaps someone can talk to Disney so that we can also get a Switch version of SEGA AGES Star Wars Arcade… SEGA AGES Virtua Racing is by far their most technically advanced emulation port, and it certainly opens the door for us to also get a SEGA AGES Virtua Fighter. They’ve given us many a Virtual Console release, the excellent 3D Classics series on the Nintendo 3DS, have done some work on the recent Castlevania and Contra collections from Konami, as well as on Collection of Mana, another recent collection that has also seen a Nintendo Switch release digitally – with a physical release right around the corner. The people at M2, the studio behind the SEGA AGES range on Nintendo Switch and a ton of other projects, are emulation gods.
It’s 2019, and I’ve been playing not an arcade-perfect version of Virtua Racing on the Nintendo Switch, but a greatly improved version of the most excellent arcade classic, with improved framerate and draw distance, 1080p docked and 720p when undocked, online multiplayer for two and leaderboards split between the two available gameplay modes (one for races with five laps and one for a Grand Prix with 20 laps to go), local multiplayer for up to eight players, and more.
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