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2* BadExportForYou: The Japanese version of Initial D 4 introduced national online battles and the ability to change data on your save card online via cellphone or computer, among other things. The Japanese version of Initial D 5 introduced special Japan-wide events that would let you unlock [[CosmeticAward special parts]]/paint jobs. None of these features made it into the English release of ''4'' (And then they went and took auras away from the English version too starting with 4.
3** The newest EXP version of 5 (2.0) has auras and the return of the avatar feature.
4* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/SegaRally''. While not outright stated, several ''Sega Rally 2'' developers worked on the first three entries of ''Initial D Arcade Stage''.
5* DuelingGames: With VideoGame/WanganMidnight.
6* GenrePopularizer: Though not the first of its kind by a long stretch, it's ''the'' game that brought the multiplayer arcade racing game scene to competitive levels on a worldwide scale.
7* NoExportForYou: Neither ''Special Stage'' or ''Extreme Stage'' received an international release. Quite odd, considering the arcade games they're near direct ports of, ''Arcade Stage Version 2'' and ''Version 4'' respectively, do have fully-translated international variants. All subsequent versions have been Asia-only releases.
8* RealSongThemeTune: Numerous Eurobeat tracks pepper the games, licensed from Avex Trax's Super Eurobeat library.

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