Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 5

Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 5 is a racing arcade game, that was released by Bandai Namco Games in 2014; as its name suggests it's the ninth title in the Wangan Midnight series. As with its six immediate predecessors, the name "Maximum Tune" refers to the "Maximum Tuning Memory Cards" which were dispensed by the cabinet - and data stored on a card for any of those earlier entries may also be transferred over onto one for this game. Furthermore, there are seventy-one selectable cars which can be tuned up to improve the ways they look and perform, as well as what they are capable of; as in Maximum Tune 2, 3, 3 DX, 3 DX Plus and 4, it's also only possible to tune a car up in Story Mode (for which the original characters from the manga comics the games are based on will appear as CPU-controlled opponents and the player needs to beat them in a race). Additional modes in this instalment include Alter-Ego Battle Mode (where an alternate version of the player's chosen car is created and they must race against it, and it is for a fifth time also possible for the player to perform "Dress-Up Tuning" and change their car's appearance here), 10-Person Mode (for which ten CPU-controlled opponents will appear one after another as the player defeats them across five courses), In-Store Intrusion Match Mode (originally known as just "Intrusion Mode" in all previous titles that featured it, in which up to four people can play simultaneously when a maximum of four one-player cabinets or a pair of two-player cabinets are linked together), and Time Attack (in which the player must select a track, and try to complete a full lap of it in the fastest time) - and much like Maximum Tune 2, 3, 3 DX, 3 DX Plus, and 4, players can again attain "levels" based on their progress, along with "titles" determined by their style of playing (of which there are over 5000 combinations). For a sixth time, on attaining a new title (which shall be shown in the screen's bottom-right corner during gameplay) the game will ask a player if they want to overwrite their current one on their Maximum Tuning Memory Card; as such, if they happen to prefer their current title that they had earned at a previous date, it's possible for them to decline. When the game was new, an arcade operator who purchased a cabinet of it would also gain an upright "Wangan Terminal" with a touch panel, which players could use for three minutes free of charge to check the data stored on their Memory Card and, if they so desired, replace the parts that they had received for their selected car in the game.