Why are you last? You driving Miss Daisy?

A racing game set on a typical Japanese city highway, complete with rival traffic that you have to overtake and avoid.

There are three different courses available, each named after difficulty (Easy, Normal, Hard). The harder courses have more complicated tracks with sharper corners, and more dense traffic to avoid. They are also set at different times, with the easiest being set in the evening (Sunset Trial), the medium being set at night (Starlight heat) and the hardest at Midnight (The Midnight Run)

There are also four different vehicles to choose from, though there isn’t any difference with their speed or handling, holding the start button down lets you enabled tuning mode, where all the cars have spoilers on them. I assume these are much faster but with less handling.

Initially released in arcades, the game was later ported to the PlayStation in Japan and Europe. There isn’t any new content or game modes added so I can’t really recommend it over the arcade version which has much better graphics. Speaking of, this does run on the Konami ZR107 arcade board which uses the PowerPC 403e running at 32Mhz, but I wasn’t able to locate any information on its graphics hardware except that it uses an Analog Devices ADSP-21062 for its geometry engine, similar to what was used in the Sega Model 2B. it’s likely Konami licensed a 3D accelerator from another vendor.

I’m unsure how it compares to Sega or Namco’s 3D hardware as it only had three games released for it, all of which appear to be racing games.