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Nitro Racers

2022 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ60793173 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nitro Racers is a video game developed by the Derry-based game studio Torc Interactive and published in Europe by Studio 3DO for the PC. The game was set for release in June 1997, but no contemporary release happened. A demo for the game appeared on Gambler CD #9. In October 2022, the game was released on GOG.com and Steam by Ziggurat interactive.

Gameplay

Nitro Racers is a top-down perspective racing game. The game has three difficulties and three viewing modes.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nitro Racers” as 2022 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2022-10-07. The account is most persuasive where Nitro, Racers and video can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2022 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60793173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nitro Racers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.