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Racing Damashii

1991 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7279677 ↗
Source-derived summary

Racing Damashii (レーシング魂; Racing Spirit) is a motorcycle racing video game from Irem for the Game Boy handheld and the PC Engine console, released in 1991 exclusively in Japan. The game features tracks all over Japan.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Racing Damashii” as 1991 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-02-28. The account is most persuasive where Racing, Damashii and video can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1991 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7279677. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Racing Damashii”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Racing Damashii primary sources, Racing Damashii archive and Racing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Racing Damashii”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Racing Damashii” 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.