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Quem é a mulher na abertura de Super Monaco GP?

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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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    [Cash register sound]
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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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    ♪ [Romantic music]
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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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Quem é a mulher na abertura de Super Monaco GP?
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Portuguese, Brazilian
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03:24

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