Zero4 Champ series

Zero4 Champ (ゼロヨンチャンプ, "zero yon chanpu") series is a racing video game franchise created by Yutaka Kaminaga of Media Rings in 1991. Hudson Soft -now a member of Konami group- licensed it for "Drift Champ", the latest episode planned by Work Jam, developed by Tamsoft and for a mobile phone game developed by Profire, both were released in late 2002.

Zero-Yon

In Japan, street racing sometimes occurs on long straights in industrial areas, which are used for drag races. These are known natively as 0-400m (meters) or "Zero"-"Yon" (ゼロヨン) races. "Yon" is Japanese for "4".

Overview

The series' touge racing, aero parts tuning and anime-based "Story Mode" made it similar to other popular franchise like "Initial D" and "Wangan Midnight". It has also some RPG and simulation adventure (the player does part time job to get money) found later in Shutokou Battle series titles such as "Kattobi Tune" and "Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix".

Featured cars are sports grades from Japanese makers including Toyota MR2-GT (SW20), Mazda RX-7 Type RS (FD3S), Mitsubishi Motors Lancer Evolution VI (CP9A) , Subaru Impreza WRX STi (GDB), Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec (BNR34) and Honda NSX Type-S Zero (NA2), all of which are import scene classics.

eries timeline

*flagicon|Japan 1991.03.08: "Zero4 Champ" (ゼロヨンチャンプ), PC Engine HuCard
*flagicon|Japan 1993.05.03: "Zero4 Champ II" (ゼロヨンチャンプII), PC Engine Super CD-ROM2
*flagicon|Japan 1994.07.22: "Zero4 Champ RR" (ゼロヨンチャンプ ダブルアール), Super Famicom
*flagicon|Japan 1995.12.25: "Zero4 Champ RR-Z" (ゼロヨンチャンプ ダブルアール・ヅィー), Super Famicom
*flagicon|Japan 1997.06.20: "Zero4 Champ DooZy-J" (ゼロヨンチャンプ ドゥーヅィージェイ), PlayStation
*flagicon|Japan 1997.06.20: "Zero4 Champ DooZy-J Type-R" (ゼロヨンチャンプ ドゥーヅィージェイ タイプアール), Sega Saturn
*flagicon|Japan 2002.11.21: "" (ゼロヨンチャンプ シリーズ ドリフトチャンプ), PlayStation 2 (Hudson Soft)
*flagicon|Japan 2002.12.24: "Go! Zero4 Champ" (GO!04チャンプ), Mobile phone i-mode 504i (Hudson Soft / Profire)

Zero4 Extreme

In June 2005, a fan flash game "Zero4 Extreme" (ゼロヨンエクストリーム) was made available online for free by Kuruma. [ [http://www.kurumade.com/entertain/game/contents.html "Zero4 Extreme" access] ] [ [http://www.kurumade.com/entertain/game/contents.html Zero4 Extreme official website] ]

Notes

ee also

*Initial D
*Wangan Midnight
*Touge series

External links

* [http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/d_champ/index.html "Drift Champ" official website]
* [http://www.profire.co.jp/iappli/04champ.html "Go! Zero4 Champ" official website (Profire)]
* [http://www.hudson.co.jp/mobile/imode/iapp/genre/rp_go04.html "Go! Zero4 Champ" official website (Hudson Soft)]
* [http://www.hudson.co.jp/corp/news/bn2002/021225.pdf "Go! Zero4 Champ" press release]
* [http://www2.gpara.com/special/soft/jinguji08/creator.htm Zero4 Champ series overview & Yutaka Kaminaga profile]
* [http://zero4champ.com/ Zero4 Champ series fansite]