Ports and Related Releases
Power Drift was later ported to the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and ZX Spectrum by Activision UK. The Spectrum version knocked the long-standing Robocop from the top of the sales charts. A TurboGrafx-16 was developed by Copya Systems and published exclusively in Japan by Asmik Ace Entertainment. Sega later ported it to the Sega Saturn as part of the Sega Ages series of compilations, and in Yu Suzuki Game Works Vol. 1 for the Dreamcast. Due to the weaker hardware, every port (except the Saturn and Dreamcast ones) lacks the tilting action seen in the original arcade version.
If players place first on all five tracks (which is indicated by all five gold trophies on the number of wins display behind the course letter), an "Extra Stage" is unlocked, where the assigned car is a vehicle from other Sega games. Courses A, C and E allow players to race with the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet from the After Burner series in the Extra Stage, while courses B and D have an option to race the motorcycle from the Hang-On series. Players also can press the start button while in a race to see a rear view.
Oddly enough, the billboards in the game contain an ad for the well-known Coca Cola soft drink, the now defunct real-life Chicago radio station WLAK 94, a sign showing Popeye holding a mug full of beer with text next to him that reads "SeaFood and Beer", a real estate sign saying "SOLD!" with the name of Australian real estate company Max Christmas, and for Los Angeles furniture store Victory Furniture, using each entity's then current real-life fonts and signage. This might have been an in-joke amongst the designers, or they might have been inspired from seeing Western advertisements in magazines, travels or the like.
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