[Arcade]Initial D Arcade Stage 5 Akina Battle 6 Special Battle Bunta Race + Credits

The final final race of Initial D Arcade Stage 5 with Bunta using AE86.

The battle took many many tries, even Bunta was getting tired of seeing me. This race was especially difficult with Bunta having tricks up his sleeve. At 01:10 and 02:20 you can clearly see he gets a special speed boost whenever you get 80 meters of advantage ahead of him to close the distance. Maybe he activated the secret NOS on his car?

Takumi's speed check was about 150 km/h, but Bunta's is about 155 km/h. Speed check is a common throttling technique in racing games to keep rivals ahead of you until you reached a certain speed. In old games it is also used to save on rendering capacity to show one rival on the screen at a time, but it is used nowadays more as a gate or difficulty check. At 155 km/h at the end stretch of Akina is simply unattainable given the long winding curves, because you'll lose speed whether you grip or drift.

At least this now puts the Stage 5 to bed now.

As per usual, the music in the credits got Copyright claimed so the audio quality is reduced for that portion by YoutTube.

00:12 Pre-Battle Cutscene
00:35 Battle Starts
04:28 Post-Battle Cutscene
04:47 Cinematic replay and game credits.