History Trivia / WanganMidnight

* ActorAllusion: The driver of Blackbird, Tatsuya Shima, is voiced by ShinichiroMiki, the same person who voiced Takumi Fujiwara from Manga/InitialD. With this in mind, several people went into WMG territory, suggesting the tofu delivery boy from Gunma grew out of his Toyota and moved into Tokyo, became a surgeon and races a Porsche.

* TheWikiRule: Of a sort: the ''Maximum Tune'' team SOARS maintains one [[https://soarsmedia.blogspot.com/ here]].

** Another mistaken belief is that holding down the red button in a VS battle to flash one's headlights makes the player go faster if they're behind. It doesn't.

* NamesTheSame:
** ''Devil Z'' was first used in ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', which was some years before the manga was made.

** "The Final Count Down" in ''Maximum Tune 4'' is not a Music/{{Europe}} song.
** "Still Alive" in ''Maximum Tune 5DX+'' is not sung by [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]].

** [[ComebackMechanic Handicap]] is referred to as "boost" despite no official material referring to it as such; this is a carryover from ''VideoGame/InitialDArcadeStage'' which does officially use the term.

** Handicap is referred to as "boost" despite no official material referring to it as such; this is a carryover from ''VideoGame/InitialDArcadeStage'' which does officially use the term.

** Whether a car is undefeated in Story Mode or not is referred to as "unshaded" (undefeated) or "shaded" (lost at least once). This is an [[TheArtifact artifact]] from the days of magnetic cards: a car that has not lost in Story Mode has hollow (unshaded) stage completed marks, while a car that has lost at least once has filled (shaded) marks.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: A rather...''persistent'' belief since ''Maximum Tune 3'' is that dress-up parts affect car performance, in spite of operator manuals, official pages, and agreements by many serious players indicating the contrary.

* BadExportForYou: The international version of ''Maximum Tune'' removes the Gemballa-tuned Porsches, as Namco didn't want to pay Porsche's, and by extension Gemballa's, legendary multi-hundred-million-dollar licensing fees to have them available outside of the Japanese version.

** "Still Alive'' in ''Maximum Tune 5DX+'' is not sung by [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]].

* CutSong:
** "Entry ([=Maxi5=] Version)" is supposed to be used for the login screens in ''Maximum Tune 5'', but [[NoExportForYou this only applies to the Japanese version]]; the non-Japanese versions of the same game [[BadExportForYou omit this track]] and simply [[RecycledSoundtrack reuse]] "Entry [=Maxi4=]" (''Maximum Tune 4''[='=]s login BGM).
** ''Maximum Tune 5'' also has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC_OcWzoiBE its own BGM for choosing a game mode]], but it only appears on the soundtrack; it never plays in any version's mode select screen because if it did, [[LongSongShortScene you would only hear 15 seconds of it before the menu timer forces you into a mode]], and each mode has its own BGM.

* CutSong: "Entry ([=Maxi5=] Version)" is supposed to be used for the login screens in ''Maximum Tune 5'', but [[NoExportForYou this only applies to the Japanese version]]; the non-Japanese versions of the same game [[BadExportForYou omit this track]] and simply [[RecycledSoundtrack reuse]] "Entry [=Maxi4=]" (''Maximum Tune 4''[='=]s login BGM).

** The English versions of ''Maximum Tune 4'' and ''5'' are currently only available in various English-speaking countries in Southeast Asia (eg. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, etc.). This is despite the card transfer event that lets players transfer their cards from ''Maximum Tune 3DX+'' to ''Maximum Tune 4'' [[LostForever ending in October 2013]], so if ''Maximum Tune 4'' (or ''5'') ever gets in other markets, players in those markets will have to ''start all over again.''

* ActorAllusion: The driver of Blackbird, Tatsuya Shima, is voiced by ShinichiroMiki, the same person who voiced Takumi Fujiwara from InitialD. With this in mind, several people went into WMG territory, suggesting the tofu delivery boy from Gunma grew out of his Toyota and moved into Tokyo, became a surgeon and races a Porsche.

* CutSong: "Entry ([=Maxi5=] Version)" is supposed to be used for the login screens in ''Maximum Tune 5'', but this only applies to the Japanese version; the non-Japanese versions of the same game [[BadExportForYou omit this track]] and simply [[RecycledSoundtrack reuse]] "Entry [=Maxi4=]" (''Maximum Tune 4''[='=]s login BGM).

** So the US is finally getting ''Maximum Tune 5''.. Never mind that other regions has reached ''5DX+'' at this point, which means ''the US is two versions behind Asia and Australia'', but also the card porting service will not be revived for the market. US players will have to restart from scratch...

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: A rather...''persistent'' belief since ''Maximum Tune 3'' is that dress-up parts affect car performance, in spite of operator manuals and agreements by many serious players indicating the contrary.

* UsefulNotes/{{Unix}}: The arcade cabinets of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 and 5 runs a distribution of Linux called "Arcade Linux Live". Given that the game runs on the Namco [=ES=] series PC-based hardware, this is hardly surprising.

* CutSong: "Entry [=Maxi5=]" is supposed to be used for the login screens in ''Maximum Tune 5'', but this only applies to the Japanese version; the non-Japanese versions of the same game [[BadExportForYou omit this track]] and simply [[RecycledSoundtrack reuse]] "Entry [=Maxi4=]" (''Maximum Tune 4''[='=]s login BGM).

* CutSong: "Entry Maxi5" is supposed to be used for the login screens in ''Maximum Tune 5'', but this only applies to the Japanese version; the non-Japanese versions [[BadExportForYou omit this track]] and simply [[RecycledSoundtrack reuse]] "Entry Maxi4" (''Maximum Tune 4''[='=]s login BGM).

* SequelGap: The U.S. had to go ''seven years'' without a new ''Maximum Tune'' game, and by the time they did they got one that's three years outdated. And to say nothing [[NoExportForYou of other countries outside of eastern and southeastern Asia]].