Scud Race
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| Scud Race |
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| System(s): Sega Model 3 |
| Publisher: Sega |
| Developer: Sega AM2 |
| Genre: Racing |
| Number of players: 1-4 |
Scud Race, known as Sega Super GT in North America, is a racing game developed for Sega Model 3 hardware in late 1996. The first Model 3 racing game, Scud Race is a spiritual sequel to Daytona USA with very similar controls, HUD and visual style, though features supercars rather than stock cars. The working title of this game was simply Supercar. "Scud" stands for "Sport Car Ultimate Drive".
Like Daytona USA, Scud Race was based on a real life racing event - the BPR Global GT Series. It also features four real-life cars - the Porsche 911 GT2, the Ferrari F40 GTE, the Dodge Viper GTS-R and the McLaren F1 GTR.
Scud Race was due to be ported to the Sega Saturn before development moved over to the Sega Dreamcast. The Dreamcast version of the game was used in a tech demo in the 1998 Dreamcast Presentation, but the port was cancelled for unknown reasons. Some Dreamcast development kits have sections of Scud Race built in for example purposes.
Despite seeing no console release of its own, the four tracks in Scud Race were included in the Xbox port of OutRun 2.