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Virtua Gamer

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>>Rafael Fernandes: Super Monaco GP is a classic racing game that was released in the year of 1989 for arcades,

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and was ported to many consoles and personal computers of the time.

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Of them all, the Mega Drive was the system that received the best version.

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Despite the reduced graphics as compared to the original, the gameplay was maintained,

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and new game modes were added, like the World Championship,

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based on the 1989 Formula 1 season.

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For these and other reasons, Super Monaco GP is still remembered to this day,

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and you can check out a lot more about this game in my review, here on my channel!

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But have you ever stopped to wonder who is this illustrious lady in a bathing suit on the main screen?

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Yes, this sensual blonde, with this voluptuous body and this hair blowing in the wind.

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Looks more like a shampoo commercial, right?

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Probably she was a beautiful model hired by Sega to pose for the photo

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and be immortalized in the title screen of the game.

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And to never again have any news of her whereabouts to this date.

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Not really.

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This is a model that appeared naked in Playboy during the 1970s,

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called Mercy Rooney. Some pervert designer at Sega took this photo of the magazine,

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copied everything, disguised it to not get too obvious and done. There is the woman of Super Monaco GP.

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To prove it's not my imagination, take a look at the two images side by side;

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look at the hair, how it is identical!

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And to confirm, she was not the only copy in it!

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In the arcade version, this screen appears when you can not complete the qualifying race, part of the practice.

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So, this is Claire Rambeau, another model that appeared naked in the magazine in the 1970s,

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and here she is a little more tanned, to disguise it too, right?

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Well, it seems that someone at Sega was an avid reader of the magazine, eh?

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>>Luiz Felipe Scolari: Hottie! Ha ha ha!

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>>Rafael Fernandes: So, now you know: this discovery is another example that Sega in the 1980s was crazy,

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and loved to take drawings and pictures of films, comic books, and et cetera,

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and put them in the games without the slightest shame or fear of being sued.

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I'll talk more about them here soon.

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Meanwhile, I'm sure of one thing: you will never see the title screen of Super Monaco GP with the same eyes…

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Produced by Rafael Fernandes
@rafafernandes64
facebook.com/virtuagamer

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