Sega's Virtua Racing hits PC and Xbox for the first time, with 8-player online
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Connecting the dots: Since its release way back in 1992, the legendary Sega Virtua Racing has been ported to a lot of machines, but Xbox and PC never made it onto the list. That has now changed. A developer going by Wanszai recently released an unofficial emulator, built to run the game and nothing else, for Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Virtua Racing was Sega's F1-style racer, and it ran on the company's Model 1 arcade board, the hardware Sega used for its first polygonal games.
It was revolutionary as one of the earliest polygon racers, which makes it hard to forget for anyone who grew up loitering in arcades. Watching flat sprites give way to smooth 3D tracks felt like a glimpse of the future at the time.
That Model 1...
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