![]() ![]() One of them, a selectable wingman in Ace Combat 2 (1997), was actually officially identified as Reiko's younger sister born in 1977. She serves as the series' "image girl" mascot and in all her incarnations is always bearing resemblance of Reiko Nagase. ![]() Kei Nagase ( ケイ・永瀬) is a name of several pilot characters featured in Namco's Ace Combat series of combat flight simulators. Promotional models dressed as Reiko have advertised for Namco at gaming industry events such as E3 and Nintendo World. In 1999, she was featured in Namco's E3 PlayStation 2 pre-launch real-time technology demo program "Ridge Racer Girl". She is prominently featured in a Ridge Racer-themed pachislot, along with a PlayStation 2 port of that machine, and has also been featured in other products licensed by Namco, including the first and sixth wave of Namco Gals gashapon and other figurines and garage kits by various manufacturers. Reiko also appears on the covers of Ridge Racer soundtracks, including Ridge Racers Direct Audio (2005) and Ridge Racer 20th Anniversary Remix (2014). The sports game Family Ski (2008) has her featured in many of the unlockable skis, and in the rhythm game Taiko no Tatsujin: V Version (2015) she is a summon character. Reiko's costume is available in the role-playing video game Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon (2000), a poster of Reiko has been made available in Sony's Mainichi Issho in 2007. She is also playable in Namco Wonder Classic (2001) and in Pac-Man Fever (2002). She is a playable character in Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis (1998), and appears as a baseball player in the Namco Stars (ナムコスターズ) sports team in three entries in the Super World Stadium series (1999–2001) and in Professional Baseball Famisuta 2011. ĭue to her popularity, she went to make many appearances in games outside of the Ridge Racer series, most of them featuring her in the white-and-red outfit from the R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 promotional artwork. Those included Ridge Racer 6 (2005, including a hidden in-game message from her ), Ridge Racer 7 (2006, featuring a "slightly older" Reiko officially described as "the racing queen of your dreams" ), Ridge Racers 2 (2006), Ridge Racer Accelerated (2006), Ridge Racer 3D (2011), and Ridge Racer Slipstream (2013). This game features her revamped 3D model for the introductory animation, again done by Kei Yoshimizu, who would also provide the reference for some of Reiko's further appearances. However, since Reiko's popularity with fans still was strong, Namco decided to bring back her for 2004's Ridge Racers. In 2001, Namco also created an "image girl" for their Namco Sports line named Hitomi Yoshino (吉乃ひとみ), who was featured in a Ridge Racer trailer shown in the 2002 edition of the E3 even as the Ridge Racer series does not belong to that line. In 2000, Namco decided to replace Reiko in Ridge Racer V with newcomer Ai Fukami (深水 藍). She also appears in the Nintendo-developed Ridge Racer 64 (2000). This is when Namco started giving more exposure to the character, heavily using her image to promote the game. Type 4 also introduced a redesign to her 3D model by Kei Yoshimizu. In R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (1998), she was given more prominence, as the opening animation, which used a song by Kimara Lovelace, was a short story starring her. Not counting an original cameo in the arcade game Rave Racer (1995), Reiko officially first appeared and was named in the racing game Rage Racer (1996), in the game's full motion video intro directed by Kei Yoshimizu from Keica, also appearing in-game. Reiko Nagase is a fictional race queen from Tokyo who is the digital mascot and host of the Ridge Racer series. ![]()
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