Motor Raid

Motor Raid
Motor Raid flyer
Developer(s)AM1
Publisher(s)Sega
Designer(s)SEGA AM R&D Dept.-1 Developers
Composer(s)Makito Nomiya[1]
Platform(s)Arcade game
Release
  • WW: October 1997
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Up to 4 players simultaneously
Arcade systemSega Model 2

Motor Raid (モーターレイド) is a racing video game released by Sega on its Model 2A arcade system board in 1997. In contrast to the realistic style of most of Sega's previous racing games, Motor Raid uses a futuristic aesthetic and gameplay supplemented by fighting elements.[2]

The game was released in single and two-player cabinets, which may be linked together to support up to four players.[3] Both are sit-down cabinets with model motorcycles, and were sold as an update kit for Manx TT Superbike.[4] Game modes include "Championship" and "Practice" and there are four playable characters, Geila, Gunz, Io and Robin.

Unlike other Model 2A racers like Manx TT Superbike and the original Sega Rally Championship, Motor Raid was not ported to the contemporary Sega Saturn or Windows 95. In 2018, it was made playable on consoles for the first time via an in-game arcade machine in the Yakuza spin-off Judgment[5] and its 2021 sequel Lost Judgment.

  1. ^ "MJCA-00010 | MOTORRAID/WATER SKI - VGMdb". vgmdb.net.
  2. ^ "NG Alphas: Motor Raid". Next Generation. No. 35. Imagine Media. November 1997. p. 147.
  3. ^ Harrod, Warren (September 1997). "Coin-Operated: Motor Raid". Sega Saturn Magazine. No. 23. Emap International Limited. p. 95. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  4. ^ Webb, Marcus (March 1998). "New Games Coming". Next Generation. No. 39. Imagine Media. p. 30.
  5. ^ "Project Judge adds Fighting Vipers and Motor Raid play sots". Gematsu. 20 September 2018.