Winning Run
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Winning Run is a video game, released by Namco
Namco
is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

 in 1988. It was the first game to use the Namco System 21
Namco System 21
The Namco System 21 "Polygonizer" is an arcade system board unveiled by Namco in 1988 with the game Winning Run. It was the first arcade board specifically designed for polygon processing...

 hardware. The music was composed by Hiroyuki Kawada.
It was housed in a movable (silver, orange) cabinet. In traditional NAMCO racer genre of the time it the player had a choice of game modes to play:
Easy Drive (Automatic Transmission and slower game play)
Technical Drive (Manual Transmission and faster game play)
The game also featured a Dunlop
Dunlop Tyres
Dunlop Tyres is a British company owned 75% by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and 25% by Sumitomo Rubber Industries, which bought the right to sell Dunlop-branded road tyres....

 "style" tire bridge over the track but instead said "NAMCO" on it.
The music had similarities to Namco's Final Lap
Final Lap
Final Lap is a racing video game produced by Namco, and released by Atari Games for the United States in 1987. It was the unofficial sequel to the popular Pole Position games....

using the short jingles when the race started.
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