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{{quote|''"[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|It's Ridge Racer!]] [[Memetic Mutation|Riiiiiidge Racer!]]"''|Sony Computer Entertainment president '''Kaz Hirai''' at [[E3]] 2006}}
'''''Ridge Racer''''' is a series of racing games created by Namco and initially released in arcades in 1993. They found greater popularity on the PlayStation, where the first ''Ridge Racer'' game was announced as a launch title, owing much of its success to its emphasis on fast-paced racing over super-realism. Each game has multiple tracks that take place in the same city, with the same start/finish line but different vantage points. So far, seven official games have been released on PlayStation consoles (except for ''Ridge Racer 64'', which was a Nintendo 64 game, and ''Ridge Racer 6'', an Xbox 360-only title), with side-games and remakes on the PSP and Nintendo DS. An eighth game, dubbed ''Ridge Racer Unbounded'', was released in 2012 and developed by Bugbear Entertainment (developers of the first two ''Flatout'' games).
There are currently 7 main titles in the series and many portable versions and spinoffs. It's become a tradition for a new [[PlayStation]] console to have a new ''[[Ridge Racer]]'' game as a [[Launch Title]], and the [[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]], [[DS]] and [[Xbox 360]] were launched with one as well.
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** ''7'' gives you and the AI a much more literal version of the trope in the form of slipstreaming.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Everything [[Namco]] has ever done, period. [[Dig Dug]] makes car parts, ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' characters make wheel mods, [[Klonoa|Phantomile]] is a track in ''Type 4'', Ridge State has a ''[[Xevious]]'' tournament...
** The tracks are also littered with [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to other games. Pay close attention in ''Ridge Racer V'' and ''64'', for example, and you'll see the logos of the factions from ''[[Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere]]''.
*** Reiko Nagase is Kei Nagase's ''sister''. The one from ''[[Ace Combat 2]]'', actually: there are ''three'' Nagases in the whole [[Ace Combat]] franchise.
**** Also, Rena Hayami from ''R: Racing Evolution'' bears a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|suspicious resemblance]] to Reiko.
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