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Side by Side Special is a Taito touge racing game. Touge racers are Japanese games where you race cars along mountainside roads, much like in the Initial D franchise, which is its own sub-genre of racing titles in Japan due to its basis on real street racing and the sense of tension that comes from constantly making tight turns and moving along narrow paths.

Side by Side Special is similar to the Touge G Max games and features over 20 cars from various Japanese car makers with realism and fidelity as the main selling points. Races are exciting and stages are colorful in that nineties kind of way, including beach stages where you race past sunbathing tourists and blue-sky mountain pass races. Definitely worth looking into for genre fans who have maxed out everything in Ridge Racer R4 and similar titles.