Midnight Club: Street Racing (GBA)

Midnight Club: Street Racing
Developer(s)	Rebellion Developments
Publisher(s)	Destination Software
Series	Midnight Club
Engine	Angel Game Engine
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance (Cartridge)
Release Date(s)	NA: November 14, 2001 EU: February 8, 2002
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-Player

Midnight Club: Street Racing is a racing arcade game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Destination Software. Midnight Club: Street Racing brings the player a top-down view street racing action of high speed driving and adventure to the Game Boy Advance. The concept behind this game derives from the illegal races of real-world Midnight Clubs. The core gameplay consists of races of high-speed maneuvering through completely open city streets. Live life in the insane lane, escape the law and accumulate an arsenal of vehicles.

Objective

A mysterious group of urban street racers known as the Midnight Club race for pride, power, and glory in sleekly customized, enhanced sports cars. As a regular New York City cab driver, the player learns about this secret club and decides to join.

The player begins with a relatively unmodified and slow vehicle, a taxi. Through a series of races, each with different goals, they defeat other racers and win faster and more expensive vehicles.

Vehicles

Vehicle	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Taxi Cabs	Taxi	Super Taxi	Marauder
Crusero	Bueno	Excellente	Magnifico
Jones	J400	J420	J450
Piranha	PDQ	PDQ R	PDQ ARi
PT	Phoenix (Standard)	Phoenix DDX	Phoenix ICX
Modicum	XSV	XSV.5	XSV.25
Ascent	235	237si	470ds
Amata	Fiorenza	Fiorenza II	Crescendo
Zender	Alpha	Beta	Type-S
Kuruma	Faasuto GR	Faasuto GS	Faasuto GT
Manhattan Bonus	Bus	Ice Cream Truck	Meter Maid
London Bonus	Double Decker Bus	Black Cab	Crown Mall
Manhattan PD	Patrol Car 1	Patrol Car 2	Patrol SUV
London PD	Police Car	Police Van	Police Wagon

• Unlock Manhattan PD Vehicles by completing New York Head to Head 10: I Smell Bacon... in Arcade Mode.

Cities

New York & London.

Players race through the cities of New York and London. By modern standards, they are significantly less detailed than their real life counterparts, but were highly detailed and large for the game at the time. Both cities are designed for the racing scenario.

Each city contains landmarks from their respective real life counterparts. New York includes such landmarks as Times Square, the Empire State Building, the now-destroyed World Trade Center, and Central Park. Some of London's visible landmarks include Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, and Tower Bridge.

Trivia

• Unlike the PlayStation 2 version of the game where the game saves automatically, the Game Boy Advance version does not allow players to save their progress. Instead, each time the player wins a race in Career Mode, the game will give the player a 4-digit passcode. This will allow players to continue the game if they choose to quit the Career Mode and play later. However, if the player does not remember the passcode, they will have to start all over from the start of the game. Players can write down the passcode.
• Due to the limitation on the Game Boy Advance version, almost all the buildings in the game look exactly the same. However, some landmarks can be recognizable such as the Madison Square Garden.

Passwords

The following passwords can be entered into the game whenever entering career mode:

Cheat	Description	Unlock Requirements
NYRA	Unlocks Emilio, Keiko and Larry to race	Beat Emilio in the first race after chasing him with the Taxi
NIML	Unlocks all Crusero models.	Beat Emilio Sanchez in all 3 head-to-head races.
GTBP	Unlocks all Jones models.	Beat Larry Muller in all 3 head-to-head races.
LGKG	Unlocks all Piranha models.	Beat Keiko Hatano in all 3 head-to-head races.
LAPC	Unlocks all New York models (Crusero, Jones and Piranha).	Beat Kareem Windross in the champion race and unlock London.
TMNS	Unlocks all PT and New York models.	Beat Kareem Windross in all 3 head-to-head races.
CLSB	Unlocks all Modicum and New York models.	Beat Lukas Howell-Jones in all 3 head-to-head races.
PLCB	Unlocks all Ascent (known as 'Accent' in-game) and New York models.	Beat Emily Morton in all 3 head-to-head races.
MPBA	Unlocks all New York and London models (PT, Modicum and Ascent).	Beat all 3 London hookmen.
AEHC
AGEM	Unlocks all cars in the game.	Beat ????? (Anika) in the final champion race.

Credits

• CEO - Chris Kingsley
• CTO - Jason Kingsley
• Senior Producer - Paul Tresise
• Lead Programmer - Gavin Wade
• Programmer - Tom Pinnock
• Art & Graphics - Barry Northern
• Sound Engineer - Chris Brighton
• Musician - Mark Cooksey

Gallery

Credits 1

Credits 2

Soundtrack

Main Article: Soundtrack for Midnight Club: Street Racing

The Gameboy Advance soundtrack of Midnight Club: Street Racing consists of only eight tracks. Two tracks are shortened versions of main-game tracks and the other six tracks are all composed by Mark Cooksley:

• Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord (MIDI)
• Derrick May - The Beginning (MIDI)
• Mark Cooksey - Waypoint (New York)
• Mark Cooksey - New York
• Mark Cooksey - Head to Head New York
• Mark Cooksey - Waypoint (London)
• Mark Cooksey - London
• Mark Cooksey - Head to Head London