Seaside Route 765 is a course first introduced in Ridge Racer as its Beginner and Mid-Level course. It has made appearances in almost every game in the Ridge Racer series, and has even appeared under different names (Novice and Intermediate in Ridge Racer 2, Ridge Racer Short in Rave Racer, Ridge Racer Novice and Intermediate in Ridge Racer 64 and Ridge Racer DS, and Sunny Beach in Ridge Racer V). It is also available on Ridge Racer Revolution as Special 1 through the PlayStation's System Link functionality.
Course information[]
Seaside Route 765 is the first course introduced in the entire Ridge Racer franchise and has long been branded as a circuit suitable for beginners. Its wide roads and long straights are balanced by a few corners that require players to learn the franchise's trademark drifting mechanic to take on smoothly. Notable in this course is the hairpin turn after the beach segment labeled by some as the "corner of death", which may make or break a player's race.
Ridge Racer V[]
Ridge Racer V reintroduced Seaside Route 765 and Ridge City Highway (under the names Sunny Beach and Green Field, respectively) along with five new courses in a reinterpretation of Ridge City. Notable in this new version of Seaside Route 765 is the more detailed Ridge City cityscape which accommodates the new courses added in the game.
The course's starting point in the forward direction is also placed along the course instead of on a separate road as was the case in previous games. This extra starting road was repurposed as a portion of the new Park Town course and its extension, Above the City.
This version of Seaside Route 765 would then go on to become the base of its incarnations in Ridge Racers, Ridge Racers 2, Ridge Racer Accelerated, and Ridge Racer 3D. An even more detailed overhaul of the course was also made for Ridge Racer 7.
Trivia[]
- This course has appeared the most times out of all courses in the Ridge Racer series, and has even appeared in games outside of the franchise.
- The course appears in MotoGP 3 as Challenge 42. Like all other Challenge courses in the game, it appears purely as a floating road without any scenery whatsoever.
- The course also appears in Critical Velocity, this time with the scenery roughly identical to its Ridge Racer V iteration. Inaccessible roads (e.g., the extension to Ridge City Highway, the first half of Outer Pass) are still present.
- RSGP 14 in Ridge Racer 7 features this course as its final race; when playing this course, its default BGM track is M.T.T.B. by Hiroshi Okubo and cannot be changed. This song is a remix of Movin' in Circles (also composed by Hiroshi Okubo) from Ridge Racer Type 4, and the title of the remix references the lyrics "movin' to the beat" from the original song.
- The map of Seaside Route 765 appears in the "Single Race" icon in Ridge Racer (PlayStation Vita), although it was never included in neither the final game nor its E3 2011 interactive demo.
- The number 765 in the course's name is a reference to Namco's goroawase (語呂合わせ) number, which assigns the three Japanese syllables in the name Namco (ナムコ, "namuko") to numbers which can be read the same way (in this case, na is 7, mu is 6, and ko is 5).
- This is also the case for Harborline 765.
Seaside Route 765 map as seen in Critical Velocity
The starting point of Seaside Route 765 as seen in Critical Velocity. The car here is a Zinc Sword.
- This is also the case for Harborline 765.
