Rockstar's Midnight Club Era is Unforgettable

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For many, Rockstar Games is most known for the Grand Theft Auto franchise which provides a sandbox for endless urban chaos, and Red Dead Redemption, which allows gamers to enjoy the pre-industrial American landscape as a cowboy. However, in Rockstar's history, there is a graveyard of franchises that once had their heyday but have since been left to be naught but memories in the past, with Rockstar seldom acknowledging how eager gamers are to see these dead franchises rebooted. This includes beloved IPs like Bully, Manhunt, and, for gear-heads, Midnight Club.

Midnight Club arrived at the right time, as pop culture was deeply obsessed with fast and exotic cars and the series was able to capitalize on that to provide an exhilarating urban arcade racing experience alongside a catalog of customizable dream cars. Even alongside arcade racing juggernauts like Need for Speed, Midnight Club was still able to maintain its own personality, capturing the feeling of the street racing culture along with its eccentricities. Although it is unlikely that gamers will enjoy another title in the franchise after Midnight Club: Los Angeles, the mark the franchise left on gaming is hard to ignore.

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Midnight Club borrows its title from a Japanese street racing group of the same name. The Mid Night Club racing gang was notorious for hosting illegal street races in the late 1980s and throughout the 90s. They would drive at ridiculously high speeds down Japan's Wangan highway, and though they had exotic foreign vehicles, they were especially fond of Japanese sports cars such as the Nissan GTR and the Toyota Supra. The club's demise came to an end when a race in 1999