Rail Chase 2

Rail Chase 2 is a game set in a coalmine cart racing along its set tracks through various environments as players shoot at everything they see.

Rail Chase 2 was developed by Japanese studio Sega AM3, led by producer Hisao Oguchi. This was the first game worked on by assistant producer and future AM3 head Mie Kumagai, who had recently transferred from Sega's amusement park division. Kumagai stated she had brought in because AM3's staff had grown to about 100 people at this point, making it difficult for Oguchi to oversee projects directly. Kumagai also shared an ideology with AM3 that arcade games should be created to appeal to not just boys, but to girls, couples, and families.

She worked closely with programmer Takeshi Goden on the project. The game is a sequel to 1991's Rail Chase, which was built on the sprite-based Sega System 32. Rail Chase 2 utilizes the Sega Model 2, which allowed for 3D, texture mapped polygons. The sequel also follows Rail Chase: The Ride, an attraction featured at Sega's Joypolis theme park in Yokohama from 1994 to 2001.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Rail Chase 2 in their August 15, 1995 issue as the fourteenth most-successful dedicated arcade game of the first two weeks of that month. It rose to ninth place during the next two weeks and continued to chart at certain points throughout the rest of the year.

Critical reception for Rail Chase 2 was favorable. Nick Roberts of Sega Pro lavished the game with praise, scoring it 85 out of 100. Considering it a fusion of Jurassic Park and Virtua Cop, he summarized, "Iťs fast paced, iťs slick, iťs pretty dam good! You’ll be so mesmerised by the great graphics and sound plus the constant bombardment of cronies to shoot that you’ll just háve to keep playing!"