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Sega Touring Car Championchip (セガツーリングカーチャンピオンシップ) is an arcade racing game created by Hitmaker (former AM3) for the Model 2 mainboard in 1996.

=German Grand Touring Car Championship= This "Touring Car Championship" is actually based upon the famous DTM Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft '96 series (German Grand Touring Car Championship) where three European makers were competing at this time. Although the DTM cars are licensed, the three courses named "Country Circuit", "Gründwalt Circuit" & "Brickwall Town" (as well as the bonus stages) are all fictitious. Since the game is released one year after the original version, the Sega Saturn version includes both DTM'96 series and DTM'97 series. The Toyota Supra is not a DTM car but a JGTC one instead. Sega Touring Car Championship is trully the first racing game to ever feature an All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) model, long before Gran Turismo definitely make them popular worldwide, only for that, this game has a high historical importance. Home versions were released on Sega Saturn system (1997) and PC (1998). This game was such popular in Japan that Colombia Music Entertainment released a music video/racing techniques 45' VHS in the domestic market to promote the Sega Saturn version.

=Pre-Gran Turismo Era= This racing game is part of Sega's pre-Gran Turismo arcade golden age (1995-1998) with legendary Model 2/Model 3 titles such as Sega Rally Championship (1995), Sega Touring Car Championship (1996), Scud Race (1996) renamed Super GT outside Japan, Scud Race Plus (1997), Le Mans 24 (1997), Daytona USA 2/Daytona USA 2 Power Edition (1998) and Sega Rally 2 (1998). Gran Turismo's arrival on PlayStation (Christmas 1997) definitely changed racing game genre, with hundreds of licensed cars, +20 real/fictitious circuits including both tarmac & rally tracks (like Genki's N64 "Multi Racing Championship" before) as well as GT, racing, rally, Le Mans, JGTC cars. Since then Sega had had to change its strategy and to produce all-in-one racing games too, namely the Sega GT series. As a consequence, the company never made home versions of fans once awaited Scud Race and Le Mans 24. However, in late 1998, a demo version of Scud Race was exhibited to demonstrate the Dreamcast system's power, but the company never made a full release and surprised everyone by producing a secret project, Sega GT, 2 years later.

Sega Touring Championship was probably the first console game to feature Internet Ranking mode as an optional modem was available for the Sega Saturn (except in Europe).
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Crossover w/Sega Rally hidden cars

=Sega Touring Car Championship Special=

Like it was done in 1996 with Sega Rally Special Stage (セガラリースペシャルステージ), a Sega Touring Car Championship Special (セガツーリングカーチャンピオンシップスペシャル) attraction version was specially designed for the "Tokyo Joypolis" (in Shinjuku district) theme park featuring real cars instead of the common single/dual-seat cabinet. On this ultimate version, the player physically select his car, seat in the Toyota Supra, AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse or Alfa Romeo 155 and watch a huge widescreen through the vehicle's windscreen. Changes were made since the original version as now up to three players can race in a multiplayer mode, the game is broadcasted live on three public screens, while the Opel Calibra and the external car view were removed from the so-called "Special" version. Later, this rare attraction was made available in the Kyoto and Okayama Joypolis game centers too. Image:A stccs.jpg Image:Alfastc.jpg

=Releases=

*Arcade

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*Home
*Campaign

=Car List= ARCADE EDITION

Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti Team Martini Racing 1995 (DTM driven by Alessandro Nannini/Nicola Larini)
AMG-Mercedes C-Class (C180) Team D2 Drivat AMG 1995 (DTM driven by Bernd Schneider/Dario Franchitti)
Opel Calibra V6 4x4 Opel Team Joest 1995 (DTM driven by Manuel Reuter/Yannick Dalmas)

Toyota Supra GT (JZA80) Team Castrol TOM'S 1995 (JGTC driven by Masanori Sekiya/Michael Krumm)

HOME EDITION

Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti Team Martini Racing 1995 (DTM driven by Alessandro Nannini/Nicola Larini)

Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti Team Alfa Corse 1996 (DTM)

AMG-Mercedes C-Class (C180) Team D2 Drivat AMG 1995 (DTM driven by Bernd Schneider/Dario Franchitti)

AMG-Mercedes C-Class (C180) 1996 (DTM)

Lancia Delta HF Integrale WRC Team Martini Racing 1992 (WRC Monte Carlo Rally #4 driven by Didier Auriol/Bernard Occelli)
Opel Calibra V6 4x4 Opel Team Joest 1995 (DTM driven by Manuel Reuter/Yannick Dalmas)

Opel Calibra V6 4x4 Cliff Opel Team Joest 1996 (DTM driven by Oliver Gavin/Alexander Wurz)
Sega Proto Team Sega Racing CRI 1997 (Le Mans 24)
Toyota Celica GT-Four WRC 1994 (ST205) Team Castrol (WRC #1 driven by Didier Auriol/Denis Giraudet)
Toyota Supra GT (JZA80) Team Castrol TOM'S 1995 (JGTC driven by Masanori Sekiya/Michael Krumm)
*Alfa Romeo Spider 1996 (non playable Pace Car)¹

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