Before we move further.

[Akiba]

Spoiler

The Game

There we go, got that out of the way early. I guess I should do this since Im about to hit that first forum level.
I dunno, what can I say that you havent already read in an introduction post in the past 25 years or more?
If youve seen any of my posts its not hard to guess I shitpost. Threefold reasoning incase youre curious
1. I like making lame ass obvious jokes when given the open invitation.
2. Folks enjoy a bit of humor if clever enough
3. Having done forums for far too long, I get very thousand yard stare when I see a thread that asks something common as hell or generic as hell, this type of cyclical Jack Garland repetition can drive me crazy, and if the thread is going to exist, Im gonna add a bit of life into it.

Outside of that? Introposts tend to be played out

So lets talk about Racing Lagoon, you heard about this one?

Dig it, PS1 racing rpg game. Easiest way I can explain it. Fuckin Golden age 90s Square Soft said to themselves

"Hey, lets grab the dude that did Bahamut Lagoon which we all agree is peak yeah? Lets grab him, let him form a team, throw some fucks in there, oh and that chick and dude that will end up doing FFXI Play Online and FFX-2 music? Lets throw those two on this shit. Now, lets have em make Need For Speed Underground 2 years before Black Box found the formula across with Final Fantasy VII and wrap it all in a nice ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ that has cross familiarity with Einhander, FFVIIs Midgar Section and Parasite Eve...in fact?

Lets throw some fuckin FFVIII Pocketstation styled functionality in there too, have em save their cars on their mem card so they can take it to their friends to battle, or to copy over to their campaign! Alright now lets set this bitch at the turn of the Millennium in 1999's Yokohama Drift Scene, yeah! Where the Daikoku is! Oh oh now lets go fucking out to real car meets and get in the scene for research oh oh while were at it right?

MOVE Tuning shop? Lets hire them to make a show car we can take to trade shows? What? Theyve got an R33 Skyline that was actually used by a member of the most famous illegal street racing team in Japan? Mid Night? Print that shit! Oh oh oh oh lets get the FFXIII Writer Guy to write the story to the game too, itll even parallel Nomuras Kingdom Hearts in some ways. Oh oh and the language will be so meticulously poetic that itll give the game a nickname of RPG(Racing Poem Game).

And we need to get this shit done under a year? We got this."

This is a very Americanized explanation of how Racing Lagoon came to be but I think it covers core premise and appeal.

If youve never played it, Ill tell you theres no other racing game like it, nor will there ever be. If youre a fan of Square, Japan, Y2K Aethetics, JDM cars, Tuner Culture, or funky ass RPGs, theres something in there for you that you might enjoy.

And for some of you, you might hear the R. And if you do, welcome. I heard it, and it lead me back to Japan after 20 years, right to Yokohama. There something magical about this game if you can hear the call of the R.

Good luck and thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

 

[Dyne]

That thing under the spoiler tag...
Just killed like an 8 year streak.

Anyway, yeah. Welcome! Racing Lagoon sounds cool as shit. I will play it one day. Its buried somewhere in my giant backlog. I wish it had come to the USA when it was new. I probably would have played the shit out of it.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Great Friend and Welcome Anyway .

 

[Akiba]

That thing under the spoiler tag...
Just killed like an 8 year streak.

Anyway, yeah. Welcome! Racing Lagoon sounds cool as shit. I will play it one day. Its buried somewhere in my giant backlog. I wish it had come to the USA when it was new. I probably would have played the shit out of it.

lmao thats why I do it, I get to kill so many streaks given enough time its fantastic

Its one of those games that you can treat like a Rental right? Get off work on Friday, pick it up as a rental, weekend through it and by Monday you can return it. That is depending on how hard you wanna go. Folks and racing games can be a weird mix at times.

I sort of do too but this game is insanely Japanese, not just from the setting or culture but the mindset it taps into the sort of lense that can only be from a young person at the turn of the Millenium in Japan, seeing the breaking of the bubble jin and the economic collapse of the country as the first wave of lost generation youth were starting to emerge. As well as the very quickly approaching foreign investment and business opportunity that as history shows, can bring economic fortune but at the loss of the core Japanese identity.

It would be REAL hard to convey all that to an American audience in the late 90s tbh Plus if I remember Official Playstation magazine deadass called the idea of a racing game and RPG as "retarded" then stating thats why it stayed in Japan. soooooo
lmao

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

There's no such thing as psychology. It's all made-up crap. They're all conmen, all of them. Even the women.

Is my favorite Home Movies quote
Which is your favorite Home Movies quote?

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Welcome to the soirée!

 

[Akiba]

There's no such thing as psychology. It's all made-up crap. They're all conmen, all of them. Even the women.

Is my favorite Home Movies quote
Which is your favorite Home Movies quote?

"Ya know women are, women are tough I tell ya, from my experience I mean, I been all over the world Brendan. Except for Europe, and Asia...and South American I havent been to t-there yet. But uhh, y'know women are a complicated bunch...Lemme give you an analogy. Theyre like grapes. Thats all I got, cause I said bunch, then I thought of grapes. S'not great but y'know, Im getting somewhere here Brendan, Im tryin...Ya know if I had said, women are a complicated group, I would have though of umm....shit I thought of grapes again."

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Cosmiken]

 

[YourWishes]

Howdy!

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Hello and Welcome!

 

[Cosmiken]

Which is your favorite Home Movies quote?

"You know, I got to be honest with you Lynch. I'm not thrilled about the way you handled it, and I could take it up with the school committee, or I could take it up with the principal, I could do a lot of things, but what I'm going to do is pull on your bow-tie and untie it right in front of everybody to embarrass you."

"Maybe I'll do this, where I touch your shirt and then hit your face. Or I'll do this, I'll just hit you back and forth with my hand across your face and you nothing you can do about it. All right. Maybe I'll bend down, untie your shoes tie them together like I'm doing right now."

"You know what Lynch I'm going to stop. I'm not going to mess with you anymore okay? Because you know I don't want to sit here and humiliate you. All right, one more little bit with the hair but that's it."

 

[χKai]

Welcome to the forums
I love Coach Mcgurk.

 

[Viviana Santos]

Hi, welcome to RGT! You seem to be a very chill person.

 

[Akiba]

Hi, welcome to RGT! You seem to be a very chill person.

Chill vibes are the only ones I care to stomach these days so I do what I can to pass it on~

 

[Comster]

Welcome!

 

[Akiba]

Well drat everyone. It was fun to post here for a minute or two but it seems like its not to be.

Staff took away my ability to post in general otherwise this would have been in my AMA thread but alas~

Personally, I think that its a bit silly to give me a warning over such things. Ive been a moderator myself and learned from the best at Volition Studios but I guess if me being my nicest to say something a tad curt well...

But hey thats on staff. If yallre good having obvious young teens and younger on the site, by all means, yall do you.
However Im far too old net. I figured coming here among those who were older might have been fine, I would hope an older crowd would form a community that comes together in order to enforce and or teach what makes a good thread or creates engaging discussion.

I am however wrong, and that is legitimately on me.

Regardless, if this place is fine letting absolute trash quality threads flood the place, well, enjoy repetitious conversations and folks that come in, make a thread that is the lowest quality and then never check the thread again.

Spike, thank you for all youve done, those at the RGT staff who manage repo? Bless yall for everything you do as well going forward. I would consider possibly bumping that age bracket up since the site deals in sexual adult video games but hey, thats on yall and legal. Again, regardless, preciate what yall do.

And to those of you who are pretty neat here, I bid you farewell and good luck. May you all score rare consoles on the cheap, and may every disk and cart you buy be clean and easily readable~

-Akiba

 

[Coon]

Well drat everyone. It was fun to post here for a minute or two but it seems like its not to be.

Staff took away my ability to post in general otherwise this would have been in my AMA thread but alas~

Personally, I think that its a bit silly to give me a warning over such things. Ive been a moderator myself and learned from the best at Volition Studios but I guess if me being my nicest to say something a tad curt well...
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But hey thats on staff. If yallre good having obvious young teens and younger on the site, by all means, yall do you.
However Im far too old net. I figured coming here among those who were older might have been fine, I would hope an older crowd would form a community that comes together in order to enforce and or teach what makes a good thread or creates engaging discussion.

I am however wrong, and that is legitimately on me.

Regardless, if this place is fine letting absolute trash quality threads flood the place, well, enjoy repetitious conversations and folks that come in, make a thread that is the lowest quality and then never check the thread again.

Spike, thank you for all youve done, those at the RGT staff who manage repo? Bless yall for everything you do as well going forward. I would consider possibly bumping that age bracket up since the site deals in sexual adult video games but hey, thats on yall and legal. Again, regardless, preciate what yall do.

And to those of you who are pretty neat here, I bid you farewell and good luck. May you all score rare consoles on the cheap, and may every disk and cart you buy be clean and easily readable~

-Akiba

Is that a goodbye?

 

[Viviana Santos]

Is that a goodbye?

Yes

 

[Deleted member 384463]

Well drat everyone. It was fun to post here for a minute or two but it seems like its not to be.

Staff took away my ability to post in general otherwise this would have been in my AMA thread but alas~

Personally, I think that its a bit silly to give me a warning over such things. Ive been a moderator myself and learned from the best at Volition Studios but I guess if me being my nicest to say something a tad curt well...
View attachment 91119

But hey thats on staff. If yallre good having obvious young teens and younger on the site, by all means, yall do you.
However Im far too old net. I figured coming here among those who were older might have been fine, I would hope an older crowd would form a community that comes together in order to enforce and or teach what makes a good thread or creates engaging discussion.

I am however wrong, and that is legitimately on me.

Regardless, if this place is fine letting absolute trash quality threads flood the place, well, enjoy repetitious conversations and folks that come in, make a thread that is the lowest quality and then never check the thread again.

Spike, thank you for all youve done, those at the RGT staff who manage repo? Bless yall for everything you do as well going forward. I would consider possibly bumping that age bracket up since the site deals in sexual adult video games but hey, thats on yall and legal. Again, regardless, preciate what yall do.

And to those of you who are pretty neat here, I bid you farewell and good luck. May you all score rare consoles on the cheap, and may every disk and cart you buy be clean and easily readable~

-Akiba

wait, are you leaving?

 

[Coon]

Yes

Because of such a little something he goes oje what problems some have I've been fighting depression for years and one of that is upset about something like that.

 

[Deleted member 384463]

Humans are complicated, very complicated, even too much. I'm not going to lie, I wish you the best. So many users are deleted or simply don't log in anymore; it's a shame. I hope you're okay.

Post automatically merged: Jul 17, 2025

Because of such a little something he goes oje what problems some have I've been fighting depression for years and one of that is upset about something like that.

I feel sorry for you, but I know what it's like; every day is a battle, and it's difficult. I hope you get better, seriously; no one deserves to go through this. From the bottom of my heart I wish you the best.

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

Farewell friend, though not met, the forum is like a family, if one leaves, everyone grieves. May your quest to find the perfect place be in ease and smooth.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

ovch fuck

good or at least dece Luck to you n hope you reconnect if the time seems right again n leads you back

I abruptLy take leaves from depression dirges as weLL - cLinicaL n inevitabLe n intoLerabLe

"Brendon. look at me. Brendon. I want to join your pizza club. Brendon."

 

[Crashbandi]

Spoiler

The Game

There we go, got that out of the way early. I guess I should do this since Im about to hit that first forum level.
I dunno, what can I say that you havent already read in an introduction post in the past 25 years or more?
If youve seen any of my posts its not hard to guess I shitpost. Threefold reasoning incase youre curious
1. I like making lame ass obvious jokes when given the open invitation.
2. Folks enjoy a bit of humor if clever enough
3. Having done forums for far too long, I get very thousand yard stare when I see a thread that asks something common as hell or generic as hell, this type of cyclical Jack Garland repetition can drive me crazy, and if the thread is going to exist, Im gonna add a bit of life into it.

Outside of that? Introposts tend to be played out

So lets talk about Racing Lagoon, you heard about this one?

Dig it, PS1 racing rpg game. Easiest way I can explain it. Fuckin Golden age 90s Square Soft said to themselves

"Hey, lets grab the dude that did Bahamut Lagoon which we all agree is peak yeah? Lets grab him, let him form a team, throw some fucks in there, oh and that chick and dude that will end up doing FFXI Play Online and FFX-2 music? Lets throw those two on this shit. Now, lets have em make Need For Speed Underground 2 years before Black Box found the formula across with Final Fantasy VII and wrap it all in a nice ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ that has cross familiarity with Einhander, FFVIIs Midgar Section and Parasite Eve...in fact?

Lets throw some fuckin FFVIII Pocketstation styled functionality in there too, have em save their cars on their mem card so they can take it to their friends to battle, or to copy over to their campaign! Alright now lets set this bitch at the turn of the Millennium in 1999's Yokohama Drift Scene, yeah! Where the Daikoku is! Oh oh now lets go fucking out to real car meets and get in the scene for research oh oh while were at it right?

MOVE Tuning shop? Lets hire them to make a show car we can take to trade shows? What? Theyve got an R33 Skyline that was actually used by a member of the most famous illegal street racing team in Japan? Mid Night? Print that shit! Oh oh oh oh lets get the FFXIII Writer Guy to write the story to the game too, itll even parallel Nomuras Kingdom Hearts in some ways. Oh oh and the language will be so meticulously poetic that itll give the game a nickname of RPG(Racing Poem Game).

And we need to get this shit done under a year? We got this."

This is a very Americanized explanation of how Racing Lagoon came to be but I think it covers core premise and appeal.

If youve never played it, Ill tell you theres no other racing game like it, nor will there ever be. If youre a fan of Square, Japan, Y2K Aethetics, JDM cars, Tuner Culture, or funky ass RPGs, theres something in there for you that you might enjoy.

And for some of you, you might hear the R. And if you do, welcome. I heard it, and it lead me back to Japan after 20 years, right to Yokohama. There something magical about this game if you can hear the call of the R.

Good luck and thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

That Coach McGuirk pfp, you'll fit in well around these parts