Arcade Spotlight - Daytona USA

One of the most popular arcade games ever. I take a look at its profound importance to the arcade business, and its effect on my own life.
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Opening 3D Logo By:
Jan Neves
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Episode Notes:
1. The Xbox 360 version is used for much of this video. Comparison shots are the actual arcade version running on Nebula Model 2. Saturn and Dreamcast versions running on actual hardware.
2. My buds and I played Daytona to death in the arcade. We had a local arcade that had 2 Twin units networked together for 4 players. We spent more time trying to wreck one another than actually trying to win the race.
3. The Japanese version of Daytona Circuit Edition also has a system link option.
4. The US Netlink version of Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition goes for crazy money. It was only available direct from Sega, and is rare as rocking horse shit.
5. Every music selection here is from one of the Daytona USA games.
6. My order of preference for the home console versions go;
Daytona USA(XB360), Daytona USA(SAT), Daytona USA 2001(DC), Daytona USA Circuit Edition(SAT), Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition(SAT).

[@maxmatson1578]

Daytona USA the arcade game was one of the few games me and my dad could bond over. He knew how to drive manual really well so he always chosen manual gear. I tried it a few times but mostly just chose automatic, and because he knew manual so well! he always with my butt at it😅 rest in peace pops!🙏✌

[@Katana2097]

I feel ya, man. My dad was an arcade operator for 20 years. I learned all my Daytona chops from him. I ended up being better than him and could beat his times on Expert. Maybe our fathers are in an arcade heaven trading paint on Daytona.

[@maxmatson1578]

@@Katana2097 I'd like to think they are!✋✌

[@destronger5313]

Manual is all about timing and hearing the engine. In Daytona, just watch the tachometer. Also, you don't need the brake in this game with the manual. By gearing down from 4th to 2nd and a quick turn of the wheel will cause a drift.

[@stoltobot]

They had this game at the pub when I was in uni. I don’t think I’ve ever played it sober

[@milltymefresh]

I bet you was singing the songs that was in the game too, while not sober🤣🤣🤣

[@Timii240830]

I remembered bunking off college and playing this in funland London’s Trocadero in 1994. It had the 8 or 10 players setup. What a magnificent game! Great video bro.👍

[@kodoyama]

M2 so badly needs to give this game the same treatment as their incredible Virtua Racing Switch port.

[@MVC2fan1]

M2 gonna need Daytona license for that. Plus, Daytona USA is not on the list of Sega Ages Switch.

[@Estorium]

The PS3 version is pretty much arcade perfect and worth playing.

[@urbanmidnight1]

It's already on Xbox, wouldn't be too hard to port to Switch.

[@CptMinds5]

AGREED!!!

[@benjwah]

I got dollars waiting for it to happen, Sega Rally too!

[@neoasura]

I was lucky enough to have played the 8 player version at a Gameworks arcade (owned by Sega) back in the day here in Michigan.

[@blazzing]

1:04 The billboard on the right shows the face(eyes!) of 1996 Formula 1 champion, the British driver Damon Hill. I vaguely recall one of the Sega team was a fan.

[@atom_zero5413]

Omg I always thought it was Harrison Ford xD

[@chrisrobinson82]

Daytona USA is one of the greatest arcade racers ever made! Fantastic graphics - the style of which still holds up today, Easy for beginners but hard to master gameplay, super cheesy music that somehow fits the game perfectly and great fun! It's exactly what you'd want from an arcade experience!!

[@ScottWozniak]

I was lucky enough to regularly experience the 8-player version in '94 at our local arcade in Whitestone, New York. Can't remember the name of the place but it was the arcade at the outside shopping center / mall with a Blockbuster Video in it alongside the Van Wyck Expressway. So many great memories of playing it with my brother and friends. It was magical, and the early to mid '90s were especially a great time for video games.

[@MrVolksbeetle]

Man, I remember this time almost being like a blur. I had seen a guy playing this weird driving game, sliding around corners with nothing to see but guard rail whizzing by. I tried to play it and I don't think I even got a single lap in. I later recognized it as Ridge Racer and It became one of my favorite PlayStation games in the release window. What's funny is that I remember Hard Drivin' being in there somewhere and I had spent around $10 playing it, trying (and failing spectacularly) to clear that goddamn loop. I don't remember exactly how long after Ridge Racer I saw Daytona USA. It was kind of amazing how easy it was to sit down in that thing a go like a mad man around the track. Like there really wasn't a learning curve, if you knew how to drive, you could play. A most excellent trip down memory lane SLX, thank you!

[@drunkensailor112]

People who don't like, or appreciate the music in Daytona usa don't understand anything about life. Same with Sonic R

[@razordoom1]

Haters: "haha le funi meme, I can't enjoy anything without seven layers of irony, haha funi meme music" Intellectuals: "BLUUUUUE BLUE SKY, BLUUUUUE BLUE SKIES I SEEEEEE!"

[@khululyp]

There is a wonderful studio recording rendition on youtube it walways makes me happy to hear that version kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYjRq5l3bqakqKM

[@Thor-Orion]

It’s like people who hate pizza. And baby animals. And puns.

[@therealfodder]

My favourite arcade game of all time (and I was around for the early 80s stuff). When it gets a bit hairy on the drive home I still start singing ‘Daytonaaaaaaaa!’. No power slides mind you. I still play this on the PS3 - wish Sega had ported it to the PS4.

[@borisbadenov9863]

This is such a great game. There were no arcades where I grew up, but I remember a school trip where we found an arcade with the deluxe cabinet and played this a few times. It still brings a smile to my face that I can't replicate. Maybe Am2 was right, and you actually can't be fully satisfied without a Sega model 2.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

Daytona out sold Pac Man, even adjusting for inflation. It's the most successful arcade game on history

[@fixpontt]

sf2?

[@maxxdahl6062]

@referral madness I actually like the PC versions of virtua fighter 1 and 2, virtua cop, daytona, etc. More than on the saturn. More options, better graphics, etc. You can choose original VF1 graphics or VF remix on PC for example. And the arcade character models for vf2 pc.

[@paulclinton6414]

It was also at least 3 years ahead of all else.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

@@fixpontt Yep, it brought in more revenue. There might have been more SF II cabinets but Daytona was more successful

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@paulclinton6414 Most Model 2 stuff was way ahead of the curve.

[@DarkPhalanax]

I remember very well the first time I saw the Daytona USA arcade machine. It was early 1999, summer in Brazil. I'm from Paraguay and I was on vacation in a not so big coastal city in Brazil. With my parents and siblings we entered an ice cream shop, and I saw the arcade there. It was incredible, I was 12 years old and I never saw something like that. Keep in mind that here in south america gaming was a bit left behind compared to other parts of the world, so arcades like Daytona USA was something new at the time. And I was there, with my ice cream, watching the demo, hearing the "Daytonaaaa" son over and over, so many times that the song stuck in my head. Sadly, I didn't played it, my parents didn't allowed me to play that time. For so many years I remember the song and always sung in my head, until I finally saw that arcade in my country, was 2002-3. I finally was able to play it, but the steering wheel was a bit damaged. Not matter what, I had a blast. That was the first time that a videogame blew my mind, that's the reason that I remember very well of that "love at first sight".

[@iPlaySEGA]

Daytona USA is without any doubt, one of the games i could play FOREVER!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

The first time I saw Daytona in the arcade... i couldnt beleive graphics could be that good!

[@DavidWonn]

We had the 8-player setup at COSI in Columbus, OH in the mid-1990s. It was meant to be one of many science exhibits there, where you just paid once to get in and could freely roam about and choose exhibits at will. The COSI workers would show a brief video explaining the physics plus a few pointers ("Slow way down for turn 4" was burnt into our brains after a while.) Then you’d move on to play the middle course together as a group. Or so they intended.... But a group of us would take advantage of the fact that we could keep going back in line over and over, staying at just this science exhibit. The workers there would eventually just skip the video tutorial and just let us play if nobody else joined.... We played it enough to get a good feel for it, and would eventually be able to beat most of the COSI volunteers consistently enough. But there was one guy who was just too good, so we developed our own twisted strategy. One or two of us would be designated to go around the track as the game intended, while the rest of us would be designated crash dummies driving around the track backwards! Needless to say, the physics of the game didn’t quite account for this scenario very well. :-) We’d avoid our teammates, but would specifically target the pro COSI volunteer for head on collisions. Oftentimes when we had a successful collision, he’d wreck, while our cars would keep going, and even briefly speed up! So much for their science exhibit! And when that was deemed too cheap to beat the pro COSI volunteer, we had other tactics. If I was fortunate enough to have an empty seat adjacent to me, I could stretch my left leg just enough to drive two vehicles! The intention was to just get that vehicle far enough into the course where the tunnel begins, but I’d let it coast into a blind curve, and then abandon it there. Then I’d focus 100% on my own vehicle... Sure enough, that parked car on a blind curve in the tunnel was enough to make every unsuspecting player wreck on lap 2, and they’d fly through the ceiling of the tunnel, and then crash back down hard! So much for your physics exhibit, COSI! :-) I wish I could go back in time and relive that wonderful day we spent at COSI playing Daytona almost non-stop for several hours.

[@jasonfinn5517]

we need this on the switch

[@SomeOrangeCat]

I remember the step up from VR Racing to Daytona USA. Every so often a "Next Gen" moment would hit the arcades, that was one of them.

[@Judex1963]

I'm so eager for a Sega Lord X video on Sega Rally and its Saturn adaptation! Wanting to try out Sega Rally was the reason I bought a saturn about a year ago, and it's become one of my favourite games, and my saturn has become little more than a Sega Rally machine. Gameplay is arcade racing perfection, never bettered as far as I'm concerned. The graphics are state of the art in their cubist fashion. Content is so tiny and high quality it's like a caviar tin. The music is as cheezy and good as France's dairy products. IT'S THAT GOOD PLAY IT

[@Gaming_since_the_eighties]

This episode put a big smile on my face because i listen to the soundtrack last weekend and played it on my XBOX One X. Great episode.

[@markuswestwind9254]

I remember when we played it 1995,with 4 car setup, wich rumbled, vibrated and tilted from side to side, in an arcade room at the Reeperbahn, Hamburg Germany. Man that automat ate coins like nothing. So much fun

[@georgelea4297]

Loved this in the arcade and got it for the Saturn and got the enhanced edition I'll always remember "Daaytoona" full blast

[@diegoldsnake]

Hi Lord X! Great video as always, thanks! ! Love your channel!! Im from Argentina and the first time saw Daytona Usa was in a Gamepro magazine (in mk 2 times) in a small preview of Daytona and remember been blow away by the graphics, the clouds looks so real, the powerfull color red and blue un the car and the reflex of the clouds in the car capting my view a first sight! But i really sucked in the arcades, i Was more of virtua racing and sega gt in the arcades, many years laters play a lot Daytona in Windows and later in dreamcast and finally apreciate this thrilling game! Thanks and greetings!

[@davidcbeaudoin]

Daytona USA was *the* game I went to the arcade for when it was new. I bought pretty much every home version, even double dipped on the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the HD remaster. I wish Sega would release it for the Nintendo Switch. I'd triple dip in a heartbeat!

[@supersquare]

4:01 Rolling STAAAAAARTTTT

[@BorkHammer40k]

I know the Saturn version got railed on a lot and still does to this day, but my earliest memories of gaming as a child include playing Daytona USA on the Saturn, and how magical it was. The raw game play and soundtrack mesmerized me, and I was far too young to care about frame rates, draw distances, and whatever the hell else people find wrong with the port compared to the arcade version. It was one of the formative experiences for me as a gamer, and along with a handful of other genesis and Saturn games, turned me into a Sega fan forever. As I've gotten older, I've been absolutely fascinated with the history and evolution of Sega at home and in the Arcades. Your videos are always awesome and informative, providing so much context I never could have experienced only being born in 1994. Great work as always man!

[@fissionmailedgamingnewspod4766]

Wow.. This video brought back so many great memories of Me & Friends spending hours playing in linked up multi-cab sets (Had actually never seen that stand up version!) and, really reminds Me of why Sega holds such a special place of reverence for so many. Out of all the times I played Daytona with Friends, the absolute best time had to be on a group trip to Las Vegas when about 8 to 12 of Us played in a linked up race at the Sega arcade inside of the Luxor hotel! That was something truly special that I will always treasure! Genuinely awesome experience period. Also.. Watching those side-by-side comparisons of the Arcade Vs Saturn Original & Arcade Vs Championship Circuit Edition seriously crystalizes something that Tom Kalinske said in an interview on how He wanted to handle the US Saturn launch: He wanted to wait until "96 to launch Saturn. He and SOA knew what all was being done by SOJ and it's developers in Japan, so they wanted to launch with truly great line-up that would position them better against Nintendo & Sony since the Genesis was still doing quite well at the time.. There was no need to rush, but as We all know, that sadly did not happen.

[@jymfiskburk2256]

Your channel make me love even more sega

[@bigpapasmurf21]

Always up for a round of Daytona. My favorite arcade racer ever.

[@BrunoFonsecaPT]

Thanks for this great nostalgia trip. Daytona USA has to be the arcade where I’ve spent most money. To this day, if I come across one I have to drop in a coin and enjoy that sweet, sweet music!

[@rollojankins4876]

This is why I love this channel

[@shredhead76]

OMG Aladdins castle! Wow forgot about those. I had one at the local mall where I grew up.

[@strikefirst3404]

Exceptional video, played since its launch in 1994 here in São Paulo, I was semi finalist of the national championship here in Brazil. I have the port on PS3 to this day working well.

[@sega_kid4288]

This game was an event. That's about all I can compare it to. Friday night at our local arcade this game was swamped. But it was great just to watch. Great memories thanks Lord 👍

[@theunkemptvaper6866]

I loved Daytona usa so much in the arcade I remember sitting in the racecar cabinet. So much fun!

[@RyuAkiga]

This title looks amazing! I'm really glad to see a video praising Daytona usa! I'm a huge fan of this game! Awesome video SLX!

[@TheVetUk]

What a beautiful tribute to one of my favourite games of all time thank you 👍🏽

[@MichaelGreen-dm2ov]

Daytona USA is a must have for the Saturn.

[@lucasn0tch]

It's also a must have for PS3 and Xbox 360. I prefer those versions due to better graphics in general, but the game is fun regardless of where you play.

[@MichaelGreen-dm2ov]

@@lucasn0tch Agreed

[@pam8352]

@@lucasn0tch i think that the dc version is better than the arcade and hd version in every aspect.

[@drunkensailor112]

@@pam8352 the dreamcast version is like a different game and it doesn't control like the arcade. Same with the cce edition on Saturn. Still great racing games if you don't expect them to be like daytona

[@pam8352]

@@drunkensailor112 i agree, but it is the default handling wrong, you may ajust it in the option menu.

[@realmchat6665]

Awesome, love these history videos.

[@klaudijevtrkaciteritorij4301]

Daytona USA is apsolutely my favourite Arcade game with Sega Rally and ManxTT Superbike,it's fantastic experience on this place of driving,i always play it just on videogame version and i play it again

[@peachflavored]

This brings back memories playing at the local arcade with friends via 4 player link up. Those were good times. :D

[@section23]

Another great video from Sega Lord X!

[@j-biscuitz7370]

Even games I'm not generally interested in, I still watch. Love your channel, sir

[@SylveonTrapito]

My first experience with Daytona Usa was the Tiger Handheld. The vrtx one. When I saw the arcade it looked like science fiction compared

[@SylveonTrapito]

fun fact: even it was in the manual, despite how much I played it, I never saw a single speed cone. Not even once. Don´t know if mine was failed or anything.

[@haaxxx9]

I never herd of that version before despite playing Daytona USA for nearly a decade... Interesting find you found!

[@stevensonchambers5577]

I was never into racing games, but I did play this game in the arcade a handful of times. The gorgeous graphics and catchy music just begged me to try it lol

[@unkles]

Couldn't agree more with your commentary. Was blown away and kind and couldn't stop thinking of this game at the arcade. And I didn't even like racing games back then.

[@ENFDO]

I had a copy for Sega Saturn in 1995. In these days people wasnt as critic as today. the fact u had a Model 2 coinop conversion in your room was more than enough to thank life for that.

[@pdennis93]

One of my favorite memories of Daytona USA was back in the mid 2000s when I was at an arcade where you paid a flat rate to get in so all the games were "free". There was an 8 player daytona setup and a large group of people (probably 10-15 or so) that were all taking turns racing. I made a suggestion of a "play til you lose" style tournament where the winner of the race got to keep playing after each round. I ended up winning like 7 or 8 races in a row and didn't have to get up and wait again to play for quite a long time LOL. I forget who finally beat me but they definitely felt good to dethrone me after a ton of consecutive wins.

[@Zahir658]

The music, the racing, the visuals and the multiplayer! Everything was spot on there! They still have that arcade game in Australia which really goes to show how deeply popular that is to everyone.

[@jpviegas]

I remember the first time I saw Daytona USA. It was on a videogame TV show showing the Saturn Version. As a Nintendo fan boy who thought stunt race fx was the be all end all of 3d racing game the sight of that footage hit me like a hard punch in the stomach. The realisation that my snes was awkwardly outdated was crushing. I realised then that the Saturn and 3D graphics were the begging of something that was going redefine how we experienced video games. The launch price of the Saturn and PlayStation was so much out of my budvet that it was painful to think that I was missing out such a visual spectacles. Fortunately nintendo launched super mario world 2 that Christmas. That unmatched 2d platform goodness was a healing experience to make up for not playing Daytona XD

[@SakuragiSan]

Superb!, Hope you do more like this one My Lord

[@UltimateTS64]

I remember my first time playing this game, it was in like 2016 at Dave and Buster's where they had the 8 player cabinet. I was there with two friends and more people hopped in and it was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had. I was first exposed to the series when I was younger where they had a Daytona USA 2 deluxe cabinet at my local Chuck E. Cheese's, but it was only a 1 player cabinet. I'm sad both places got rid of those cabinets, those games were so fun.

[@Brainstorm_2002]

I never got to play the og machine but i played it when it was on the 360 and loved it. Its one of the few games i wish i could play again

[@sammitman3031]

1994 Dayton Ohio - Dayton Mall Arcade ('Tilt' i believe). walk in the door and it was immediately to the left as one of the dual cabinets

[@ZachlikesMetal]

Loved this game. I played this game NFL Blitz Pac man and so many more games in the arcades as a kid.

[@Sholities]

I saw this game first on the Sega Saturn. And I loved it! Soundtrack was my highlight (as were most Sega soundtracks around this time imo).

[@Ziimbiian]

Daytona Saturn prepared me for the arcade version. I knew which turn had to be taken with a lower gear or which one you shouldnt take on power slide When my friends and i went to the arcade cabinets, i demolished them! It was a lot of fun. Then doing all 3 circuits at first place while everyone was watching you mastering Daytona is timeless. 2020 and this game its still giving money to arcade owners.

[@jesusesquivelgarcia]

I work graveyard shift so I can see all . But I love this game !! I got this on my Saturn

[@Retro90sgamer]

Man this game along with ninja turtles blasting in the arcade was one of the best experiences I had as a kid and I enjoyed the dreamcast version since i didn't have an opportunity to play it on saturn. I might try it out on xbox or ps3 too! Gotta love Daytona!

[@PRFunkSelective]

Disney Quest had the mega network version. That had its own line and was pretty busy every time I went. They had cameras for capturing reactions of the players whilst driving (that was shown on the TV monitors).

[@zacharygirgenti3790]

I didn't get a chance to play this game when it came out but the local Dave and Buster's had the epic 8 cabinet network link. It definitely holds up very well and I am glad that I got to experience it.

[@zylowolf7919]

One of the two malls i went to as a kid had it. House of the Dead and Virtua Cop too.i always went for Sega machines first since I had the Genesis. Their arcade games were mindblowing.

[@ReinaHW]

I didn't get to play Daytona until later 2017, arcades weren't much of a thing where I live in the UK and were eventually phased out before 2000 so the most I ever saw of the game was in the mid 90s in gaming mags back in my teen years. I played the 360 version on the Xbox One and unlocked all of the achievements, it was an alright game that has aged a fair bit but was enjoyable enough. I could fairly see how impressive it was in it's heyday.

[@raytracemusic]

'With all the housekeeping announcements out of the way, we can get to those juicy updates. The most exciting thing this month is the recovery of the Sega Model 1 coprocessor TGP programs for Star Wars Arcade and Wing War, making these games fully playable. We’ve been working on Virtua Fighter as well, and while the graphics are greatly improved, there are still some gameplay issues as of this release. '

[@leepit7178]

If Sega Saturn got a better port of Daytona at the beginning, maybe it can be sold better. How the Pop up impact the image of Saturn.

[@urbanmidnight1]

I wanted the Saturn to beat Playstation, but when I compared the two, I saw the writing was on the wall for my favourite company Sega.

[@ikuzoburandeon]

Still, the controls was there and perfekt. Fun to play.

[@sega_kid4288]

@@ikuzoburandeon I agree, I was excited, then disappointed, but after I spent some time with it I started to see how much fun it was.

[@BLINDCABBY]

Sega rally was their redemption

[@darkus2015]

this mans channel is a good as his friends.

[@ElvisRittmann]

I was never able to play it in an arcade in Germany, because arcades are rated R (18+). So, no juvenile would ever be able to sink some quarters,/ pennies (Pfennige in German) into those lovely machines. It wasn't until I visited London, England, in 1995 when I was able to finally play it in its original form on a real arcade cabinet on Regent St. Until the 360 arcade perfect port came out, I always played it again and again on my beloved Dreamcast.

[@mgmx2099]

Labor Day weekend 94, near the Pavilion at Myrtle Beach, 8 sit down machines connected. Oh yeah, I remember.

[@mattymilazzo2741]

I played an 8 system many times at Disney Quest at Downtown Disney with my friends. It was great, and didn’t have to put quarters in at all.

[@kyzapgs7584]

Still play this every time in my local barcade!

[@colinbaldwin7773]

Such a good game. About time we saw daytona and Daytona 2 ported over to the switch instead of the 16bit titles which have been released so many times over the past decade.

[@Soulintent95]

I dont think i ever played daytona in the arcade... to be honest i have no idea what the racing games were i played back then. But my uncle had daytona 2 on the saturn, and man it was fun. I do remember how big of a deal it was back then.

[@samghost13]

SEGA Saturn still rock's in 2020!!! THX SEGA Lord X

[@RetroGamesBoy78]

My brother bought Daytona to play on my Saturn, he didn't like it too much, however i absolutely loved it so i bought it off him, it remains 1 of my favourite 32bit racers to this day.

[@ShinobiShowdown]

Disneyquest here in Orlando, Florida had 12 of these beauties connected into one race and I came in 1st place!

[@tsunamirider9895]

Great video as always. One of my all time favorite games. Also one of the main reasons I bought a Saturn at launch. I'm hoping they do a port for the Switch similar to what they did with Virtua Racing with additional support for local wireless and Pro controller support in multiplayer. It'd be awesome to do local 8 player on 2 switches via local wireless.

[@gamernaut8864]

Daytona Circuit Edition for the Japanese Saturn supports the Netlink-type system link for 2-player, side-by-side, arcade-style racing. This setup requires a phone line simulator. The SegaHolic has a cool video showing how to do it.

[@Lightblue2222]

I remember being too young to fight the steering wheel. It took some strength to play the deluxe cab.

[@InvertedGamez]

Would love to see M2 port this over to the Switch! Great video!

[@lazarushernandez5827]

Nice, my co-workers would go to the local Dave and Buster's, get on the 8 player arcade set up and race. The guys that were in the last 4 places by the end of the first lap would all turn around and start racing backwards trying to crash into the top 4 cars. I seem to recall there was an easter egg involving the 3rd track and the Jeffrey statue, I don't recall if it was in the arcade or on the Saturn or both.

[@CodenameCondor]

Daytona USA (arcade) is one of my all-time favorites. I even purchased an Xbox 360 solely for the purpose of picking up the arcade-perfect port. The Saturn port was quite a let down, sadly. However, the Dreamcast rendition, though it didn't attempt a true 100% arcade conversion, was a solid game and I got a lot of play time from it. One thing I will give to the Saturn version though is the music quality. The Saturn port got a revised, updated recording of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's glorious music tracks and, in my opinion, it is the best version of the score, beating the arcade original and also the Dreamcast's remixed versions. To this day, I can be caught driving in my car happily listening to "Sky High."

[@coreywiniata3686]

Still looks amazing.

[@wce05308]

I remember my local arcade here in Australia got the single player with the big screen. The arcade owner paid 40g for it made his money back in 10 weeks. People were lining up to play it.

[@InglebardGaming]

I still remember the very first time I saw the arcade version, it was back on Long island at the huge arcade connected to a Nathan's fast food place and I was utterly blown away. That's something I think is lost on people today, it's hard to grasp what a quantum leap in graphics this game was compared to everything else that had been available at that time. Oddly enough, I think the Dreamcast version often gets a bad rap. I loved that version of the game and I think it's got by far the best Daytona soundtrack, some of the original music on the newer tracks (including music they replaced in the CCE edition tracks) is fantastic. Yeah, the control doesn't really feel like the arcade game, but it's got so much extra stuff and once you get used to its control scheme I think it's great. I definitely appreciate the version that came out on the PS3 and Xbox360, but I think I actually still enjoy the Dreamcast version more. I kinda miss all the extra tracks from the DC version in the newest release.

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

Here in Ireland I only ever experienced the twin setup for a very long time, until I went to America when I was 13, and we went to Epcot. They had a 8 car deluxe setup running constantly and where doing a winner stays on setup competition. Managed to get a go and remember this guy who was wearing a 90s hawian style shirt was doing commentary and an old boy in the end in sunglasses and a cowboy hat lol. Lol. Was a full race on 3 7 speedway, and if I'm honest I was winning and lost it on the home straight when I dropped attention thinking I was gonna win and bounced of the sonic Wall to hard and ended up in the grass opposite, but I still came 2nd. What I didn't know until I was leaving that it was Richard Petty in the cowboy hat taking part to premote the Richard Petty / Disney nascar experience and got my photo taken with him and a quick chat. He was surprised to see a young guy from Belfast knew of Nascar never mind who he was when I burst out embarrassingly I told my dad he drives the 43 stp car. Lol. Ah to be 13 again. Will always hold that as my best memory that Sega exposed me to nascar as young man and that chance experience of meeting him was amazing.

[@radbuster4403]

do-da-do-da-do-da-do-da Daytona, lets go away~

[@LegendofRelda]

My local no coin arcade has the 8 player setup in the back, literally crazy fun if you can get just a handful of people

[@Riz2336]

Daytona USA is one of those Sega classics from a cool era in arcade history

[@RetroRelixRestorer]

Great vid.

[@stf9996]

Great video ! This game is still one of the greatest arcade racing game. I have myself honored it with a texture pack, findable on my channel ! Thanks for your video, Cheers Daytona fans !!!! :)

[@frankdux6930]

Years ahead of its time

[@chinaski31dj]

8 player link up at Sega Park in an AMF bowling. Amazing buzz playing against 7 others

[@vintagefeelsFL]

I keep the pc version in my cd player in the truck for when I wanna go fast lol.

[@JimmyTheBear]

After the video ended, I liked it, then went straight to xbox.com and bought it for my X1X thanks SLX for the info brother.

[@InstaLabSparti]

When i saw Daytona i knew photorealism was possible. Nothing amazed me ever since

[@KannX]

Quality video!

[@Shinobi6407]

It was a happy time when I bought this for PS3 a couple months ago. It's the only game I have gotten every trophy for.

[@maxxdahl6062]

I actually never seen a daytona USA anywhere back in the day. lol A bunch of Virtua Fighter 2's, but never a daytona. First time playing it was the PC release. Which I still own.

[@stevesmith9404]

excellent...