| Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 6 RR | |
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| Developer(s) | Bandai Namco Games |
| Publisher(s) | Bandai Namco Games |
| Year released | 2021 |
| System(s) | Arcade |
| Preceded by | Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 6 R |
| Series | Wangan Midnight |
| Japanese title | 湾岸ミッドナイト: マキシマムチューン6ダブルアール (Wangan Middonaito: Makishimamu Chūn 6 Daburu Āru) |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Players | 1-4 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 6 RR is a racing arcade game that got put out by Bandai Namco Games in 2021; as its name implies, it's the fourteenth title in the Wangan Midnight series. Like its 11 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 to one for this game. Furthermore, there are ninety-one selectable cars, that can be tuned up to improve the ways they look and perform (as well as what they are capable of); as with Maximum Tune 2, 3, 3 DX, 3 DX Plus, 4, 5, 5 DX, 5 DX Plus, 6 and 6 R it's only possible to tune a car up in Story Mode (where the original characters from the manga comics the games are based on shall appear as CPU-controlled opponents and the player must defeat them in a race). Additional modes in this instalment include VS Player Mode (which was known as "Intrusion Mode" until 2010, and "In-Store Intrusion Match Mode" until 2020, in which up to four players may play simultaneously when a maximum of four single-player cabinets or a pair of two-player cabinets are linked together), Online Ghost VS Battle Mode (in which the player may race against up to four "ghosts", generated from previous runs by other players nationwide) and Time Attack (in which the player must select a track and try to complete a lap of it in the fastest time) - and like the aforementioned Maximum Tune 2, 3, 3 DX, 3 DX Plus, 4, 5, 5 DX, 5 DX Plus, 6, and 6 R, players may again attain "levels" based on their progress and "titles" determined by their style of playing (of which there are over 5000 possible combinations). For the eleventh time, after attaining a new title (which shall be shown in the bottom-right corner of the screen during gameplay) the game shall ask a player if they want to overwrite the one that's currently stored on their Maximum Tuning Memory Card; as such, if they happen to prefer their current title they had earned at an earlier time, it's possible for them to decline. For the seventh time, when this game was new, an arcade operator who acquired a cabinet of it would also be given an upright "Wangan Terminal" with a touch panel that players could use for 3 minutes free of charge (but if they had to use it for longer than that, they were required to insert a coin into it to continue) to check the data stored on their Memory Card (and, if they so wished, replace the parts that they had received for their selected car in the game) - and the "Aero Parts" that were present in all Maximum Tune titles up until 2016, but did not appear for Maximum Tune 6 and 6 R, have been reintroduced.
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Sitdown cabinet quartet, with an upright terminal.
