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bingybong
Since: Nov, 2017

I seem to remember an ad at the end of the manual of the PS 2 version of a racing game called 4x4 Evolution, which came out in 2000. This ad depicted a street racing game that seemed to resemble Need for Speed, but this was a different franchise altogether. This came several years before the first licensed Fast and the Furious game, so I know it wasn't part of that franchise either. May have been available on PS 1, PS 2, Dreamcast, or PC.
I'd like to think the ad had an image of a car in a Japanese city at night, but I might be wrong there. I could be confusing that bit with another ad in the manual that I do remember, for a game called Oni that Bungie made around the same time as Halo: Combat Evolved.
Edited by ProspektShadow