• Daytona USA and Cruis'n Coming back to arcades
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[url]http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/11/daytona-usa-cruisn-racing-series-are-coming-back-as-arcade-first-sequels/[/url] [QUOTE]Rumors and rumblings about two major '90s arcade racing series panned out this week. Two companies separately announced plans to bring back both the Daytona USA and Cruisi'n series—as arcade-first cabinets, to boot. A Tuesday tease on Sega Amusements' official Twitter account hinted at a reveal of a new Daytona game but suggested we had to wait until this month's IAAPA Attractions Expo to learn more. Clearly, Sega struggled with that kind of anticipation as much as fans did, so it went ahead and spilled the beans: Daytona 3 Championship USA is official and coming to arcades around the world. This won't be a slouch of a release, either. It'll have all three original racetracks returning in "remastered" form, along with three brand-new tracks. One of those new tracks will recreate the recently renovated Daytona International Speedway. The cabinets, as announced, should be beasts, with 47" LED monitors, eight-player link compatibility, mounted cameras, and "moulded under-seat engines." The cameras are becoming more common in linked arcade racers, as they allow players to see each other reacting during major moments like passes. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]This week also saw Raw Thrills, the arcade game manufacturer behind more recent racers based on the Fast and the Furious franchise, offer more news about its take on Nintendo's Cruis'n franchise. Testing cabinets had teased names such as Cruis'n Adventure and Cruis'n Red Line, but its name will actually be Cruis'n Blast. After formally announcing the game in early October, Raw Thrills took the wraps off the final version's debut trailer last week. It looks to be plenty authentic. That figures, given that Cruis'n USA co-creator Eugene Jarvis is the guy who founded Raw Thrills in the early '00s as an upstart arcade-game manufacturer.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;nEFTxxbkUtA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEFTxxbkUtA[/video] [B]LETS GO CRUSINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN[/B]
Cruisi'n looks kinda mediocre. And I liked the title Cruisi'n Redline better.
Ah, the controls for cruisn are pretty much exactly like they used to be, other than having a dedicated drift mechanic. Cruisn world is my favorite arcade game ever so we'll see how this one holds up.
Finally something good comes out of this year.
[url]http://segabits.com/blog/2016/11/01/sega-amusements-reveals-daytona-3-championship-usa-plus-more-details/[/url] [QUOTE]UPDATE: We have learned that SEGA has assembled as much of the original Daytona team as they could to develop this game, including Takenobu Mitsuyoshi on sound.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;oWSLt64lK1M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSLt64lK1M[/video] THE HYPE IS BACK. Sega AM2 had been at the helm of some insanely good arcade racers, so I am fairly excited about this despite arcade cabinets being almost non-existent in my country.
I [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1540064&p=51294461"]posted this in the Daytona announcement thread yesterday[/URL], but it's a good watch for anyone curious why the Daytona series was just so good: [video=youtube;Tv_GQNh9D68]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_GQNh9D68[/video]
Now all we need is a new Hydro Thunder and the ritual will be complete
[QUOTE=Duck M.;51298945]Now all we need is a new Hydro Thunder and the ritual will be complete[/QUOTE] 3! 2! 1! [B]GO GO GO![/B]
[QUOTE=richard9311;51298952]3! 2! 1! [B]GO GO GO![/B][/QUOTE] [B][U]YOU'RE CRAZY!!![/U][/B]
I'm just hoping these do well so outrun has a chance to make a return.
I'd like to see Daytona USA on PC. I've only played it a tiny handful of times, because I only ever remember seeing one arcade machine around here. But it was great fun. I still remember enjoying it after what must be like 18 years.
house of the dead 5 when?
Aw man, Daytona USA Was my jam as a kid. I used to play it at the arcades and on my saturn. Daytona USA got me into racing games back then and i can't wait to see it. And since sega are attempting to round up the original devs including the composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. I seriously cannot handle the "hype" i have. Also Cruis'n Blast is looking pretty nice. [sp]I hope i hear more of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's singing. I love his singing voice.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Tomo Takino;51299329]I'd like to see Daytona USA on PC. I've only played it a tiny handful of times, because I only ever remember seeing one arcade machine around here. But it was great fun. I still remember enjoying it after what must be like 18 years.[/QUOTE] i kinda wish they also port the 2nd one on PC i enjoyed my time with the port on PS3/X360
[QUOTE=Spectre1406;51300680]i kinda wish they also port the 2nd one on PC[/QUOTE] I wish they ported the second one to /anything/, since Daytona 2 never got out of arcades.
Raw Thrills are garbage developers, they're all for gimmicky, cheap & impossibly hard quarter grabbing gameplay rather than making games you'd want to take home with you. Don't get excited for that Cruis'n game, it'll be a carbon copy of their horrifyingly bad Fast & Furious series. Their games almost always look like you're playing some college student's pre-rendered portfolio study too.
[QUOTE=massaki;51301791]Don't get excited for that Cruis'n game, it'll be a carbon copy of their horrifyingly bad Fast & Furious series. [/QUOTE] Amusingly, the last Cruis'n game literally was a port of Fast & Furious by Raw Thrills without the movie license. [T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Cruis'n.jpg[/T]
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