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Originally released in arcades in 1994, many details of this OutRun inspired racer by Midway Games were edited upon finding a new home on the Nintendo 64 in 1996.

There were numerous elements contained within the game that, while not shocking or abhorrent, were understandable worries for a games publisher like Nintendo who wanted to promote a more "family friendly" image.

The first change was the bikini-clad woman who presented the winning trophy. On the N64 version, this was replaced with the woman sporting a t-shirt to cover herself.

Cows and deer were obstacles the player could encounter and hitting them would cause them to explode into chunks of meat, too. No wildlife found its way into the N64 port.

The arcade version also had a graphic of Hillary Clinton smoking a cigar on a 100 dollar bill (replaced by a standard Benjamin Franklin bill) and the end of the game featured Bill Clinton in a hot-tub with two women (and a couple of cows) on the White House roof (replaced by a spinning car on a podium).

Another very minor change was the manual transmission "XL POWER SHAFT" was simply renamed to "XL POWER". No shafts on the N64.

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