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https://web.archive.org/web/20051215110656/http://www.genki.co.jp/games/rb/sada/index.html

https://segaretro.org/Hiroshi_Hamagaki

As many of you probably know, the person who served as the model for "Hama Gaki," also known as Kaido President, was Hamagaki "SADA" Hiroshi, the CEO of Genki at the time. However, I think it's less known that he was also a car enthusiast who participated in amateur races, and that his beloved car was a Caterham Super 7.

His Super 7 was tuned for racing and adorned with numerous Genki stickers, making it truly a "Genki Super 7."

Whether it was due to their limited technical capabilities at the time or licensing issues with Caterham, unfortunately, he never appeared in the TXRD series as a rival using the Super 7.

However, understanding the background of the person he was modeled after helps explain why he favored foreign cars like the Pantera and convertibles like the Genki S2000.

And of course, one could say that his experience in this race was the very origin that led Genki to create the masterpiece known as Racing Battle. Unfortunately, it seems he has already left Genki and retired from the gaming industry. Yet, the fact remains that it was this unique CEO who built Genki’s golden age—something well worth remembering.

(And of course, the people currently involved in the production of TXR, as well as the CEOs of their parent company Daikoku, are just as passionate about cars as Hamagaki!)

I’m not sure if this is available outside Japan, but Genki recently uploaded the design for the physical soundtrack release of TXR25.

Although it costs about three times as much as the digital version, it includes a bonus disc (Disc 4) that isn't part of the digital release; this disc features the original versions of tracks from past TXR series titles that were used in TXR25.

Given the price and the content, it is clearly a product aimed squarely at collectors, but I imagine there are people out there who would want it.