Side By Side Special 2000

Side by Side is the franchise for a popular 1990s touge racing game series whose name changed to Battle Gear in the 2000s. It was developed by Taito and was first released on arcade cabinets before being ported on the PlayStation home consoles. Battle Gear 2 is known as Tokyo Road Race in Europe. Taito released The Fast and the Furious arcade game in 2006 which is based on the popular movie of the same name known as Wild Speed in Japan and whose subject is import tuned cars. Side by Side episodes allow the player to select import sports cars from a Japanese maker either, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, later Mitsubishi and Subaru were available as well, and race downhill in Japanese mountain passes known as touge. Side by Side Special 2000 is a re-release of the game Side by Side Special that features the analog controller and the vibration function. The game is the same as the original release: A conversion of the arcade game by Taito that features different cars for the player to drive and different kind of circuits to compete in.