@@TheCheat420 try using it for music during whoopie with said lady and the moment you climax sing “DAYYY TOO NAHHHH”. If she looks at you like a weirdo, simply say “did you not enjoy the ride?”
During the Daytona USA days the local mall had a large arcade and had an 8 player Daytona USA setup. It was awesome to play in 8 player mode even if it was $1 per player per race. It was one of the big reasons why my friends and I were big into PC LAN parties later in the 90's and well into the 2000's.
My cousin was one of those kids that no matter what you did he was always just a bit better and so smug about it. Daytona USA was the first game I beat him at so he threw a controller through my TV screen and I was the one that got punished for it.
At least now you know damn well that you beat him fair and square and considering how annoying this guy sounds like it must have been satisfying as !@#$% beating him.....
im way too young to have played this game back when it was released (i was born in 2004), but i remember my dad had a version of it on a pc we had and i absolutely loved it! fast forward a couple of years and recently i got to play it on an arcade and its such a fun game! like, seriously, i basically spent all my tickets only on that machine, trying to get better! sure, i already love racing games, but it was remarkably fun in a way i hadnt felt about games in a good while! definitely one of the best arcade games of all time
In case you don't know, you can play Daytona 2 and Scud Race on PC using the Supermodel emulator. It runs flawlessly arcade perfect and beyond. You can run it in 4k and widescreen. I'm not sure how well it plays with a keyboard or a controller, but you can bind the controls however way you like, but if you have a steering wheel, then you can have the legit arcade experience. it supports steering wheel out of the box with force feedback. I'm sure you would prefer an official release, but judging by SEGA's missteps in these ports, chances are, they wouldn't be as good as playing the real arcade version enhanced by modern emulation settings.
@@thiagovidal6137 I know about emulation, in fact I can also recommend F355 Ferrari Challenge which I once tried out in Demul. It even has multiple displays!
3:16 - a bit of correction: the "Indy 500" is an IndyCar race (hence the name of the series), and although NASCAR does race at Indianapolis, its race is called the "Brickyard 400".
Many fond memories with this. For many kids in the mid-90s, this arcade was our first exposure to how racing games of the then new generation would be like. As always, an excellent retrospective.
This is the most complete documentary you can find about this game ! And very well done ! Just that documentary makes me buy the Blu ray volume one from slopes !
Dan, have you still got a PS3 and a copy of Daytona? Want to get involved in some online games this weekend (6th Nov)? We're going to be playing the game starting at 13:00 on Saturday (then Outrun Online Arcade at the same time on Sunday).
Hey Slopes Game Room, glad to see you made another video of one of my top 10 favorite arcade games of my youth. Always loved playing this game with friends of mine back in the day and this video brought back many of those memories. Thanks again for another great video.
I've got to play the original cabinet like two years ago and despite having played the game earlier in one of the Saturn ports and really liking the game there, I fell in love with this game while playing the cabinet, it's an amazing game even near 30 years later after it was released.
So glad you covered Daytona in this series, the arcades got me into gaming and Daytona was a massive part of that and this really was a pleasure to watch and was thoroughly enjoyable, thank you! Big Tekken fan as well so look forward to that 👍🏻
I miss those years, VR was just starting to pop up and hologram stands were in a few arcades I visited. Stuff like that is why I jumped into computers back then and still work with them is a professional.
Everytime I went to Iowa I80 The World's Largest Truck Stop, I played the Daytona USA arcade game. I was a over the road semi driver and after a long day, a shower and a race on this iconic game was an amazing end to the day. Sometimes if I was driving with someone, they would race me or a random person would race me, I rarely played alone at that truck stop. I miss driving over the road because of that.
Sega was not shy to taking inspiration from American movies like Blue Thunder (Thunder Blade), Top Gun (Afterburner) and Days of Thunder (Daytona USA). Good stuff Slope my man. This is still my #1 arcade racer of all time. I still play this every time I see one.
The hornet also made it into a little fan game called Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart alongside one of the tracks. the funniest part is the grphics are similar to the original Saturn port due to the game's engine being a heavily modified Doom port.
At the time this came out my parents wouldn't buy a system for us kids until I was 16 got a ps2 so I spent countless hours in stores as a kid glued to the demo units you could play in the electronics and toy departments
Imagine being a kid and seeing the absolute beauty of 4 or more Daytona cabinets linked together in your local arcade, or even better the full scale Ridge Racer cabinet. No wonder I've been in love with the MX5 ever since.
Man the model 3 era was insane. The graphical leap shown in magazines at that time blew my mind. I went to the arcade all the time hoping to see Scud Race in person and didn't get to see it until like 5 years later. I always will have a soft spot spot for the color palette and vibrancy of the model 2/3 games
i remember seeing Daytona USA in arcades when i was a kid, but i never played it, my heart and my money belonged to Time Crisis. I downloaded it on Ps3 a while ago though, i struggled with the controls at first, but when you get the hang of it, by god this game becomes so addicting. Great video as always Daniel!
Watched this a while back, saw it pop up in my recommended search and clicked again to make sure I had liked the video - because this one was so good! Great documentary as always Slopes :)
This video came out so incredibly well! Thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks for putting it together. I had no idea there was technically a “Daytona 3” and it was cool to see how the series got its start next to Ridge Racer!
As a kid growing up in Central Florida who loved racing, I felt quite proud when I'd see Daytona USA somewhere. Even better is knowing about the cat in Scud Race as I use to call my Daisy a NASCAT because she delighted in racing across our living room, up the stairs, hairpin turn into my room and end up on the other side of it stopped on a dime on my easy chair. I had no choice but to call it her time trials.
Coming back to this video is perfect seeing as Daytona USA 2 is FINALLY getting a home port as part of the arcade games you can play in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name that releases on November 9th.
Some people have a lot of love for Outrun but for me Daytona USA was the king. If you never experienced the game in the arcades at the time look up what sort of games were possible on home consoles in '93 and '94 by comparison. Daytona blew them out of the water and threw them a few miles inland. A Daytona cabinet was pretty much a litmus test to how good your amusement arcade was. It's a shame that the arcade scene is in such rough shape now, the home consoles were good but it was the arcades where the awe-inspiring technology was on show. Daytona USA isn't one of my favourite franchises nowadays but it's well and truly earned it's spot in gaming history.
"Make a game that's better than Ridge Racer" Hah. Man, Sega-Namco rivalry was wild. Absolutely top-tier stuff on both sides of the aisle. I fully understand Namco bowing out and going in on way cheaper Playstation based hardware for their arcade games, while Sega still went in on the expensive Model 2 and 3 for a while until the NAOMI came out, but it's still a shame.
Daytona was shown before Ridge Racer in arcades during development stage in Japan... what killed the Sega Saturn was Sega of America's Tom Kalinske having ZERO clue about how to launch a game console, never mind a next generation and was attached to exploiting the Genesis user base in North America while convincing Sega Japan to manufacture the 32X... That killed the development of Sega Saturn because Sega programmers were split in developing a game on 32X and on Sega Saturn... Thus if Tom Kalinske was replaced, it means no 32X and ONLY Sega Saturn as a next generation Sega path... which means all those wasted 32X games become Sega Saturn launch games and instead of Virtua Fighter 1 carrying the Sega Saturn in Japan, you would have had Virtua Racing being handled by Sega's internal dev team in Japan for Sega Saturn instead of 32X leading to closer to the arcade game running on more powerfull hardware. It then means Sega-AM2 would be freed up also from all the platforms they were working on and instead that dev team... CS-Team 1 would have handled Daytona USA with Sega-AM2 much later... because Virtua Racing on Sega Saturn would have been far more meaningful and would have really been a better racing game to Ridge Racer.
I am so glad I stumbled on this. Very well done and researched. I had no idea why the game was so advanced and still holds up today with the incredible force feedback steering wheel. I played this game so much as a teenager in arcades. 8 machines linked together created some intense competition in our local arcade. I spent a small fortune. I wish I could play it on my PS4. I am hoping that a 1up Arcade version is coming since we now have Ridge Racer.
Fun curiosity: Virtual Racing wasn't planned to be a game at all. It was literally just a tech demo the team worked on as a learning playground. For most of it's development there was no intention of ever releasing it to the public. The developers would use it just for experimenting and testing.. but as it kept getting better and more fun, they realised they actually had a product on their hands and polished it further for release.
Dooo do do do dooo dooooooooooo!!!! Thanks for covering this, and including Scud Race. Many great memories playing both Daytona and Scud Race in the arcades, as well as Daytona on my Sega Saturn.
There's something about Daytona USA that is timeless and the sequel cabinets never matched. The high intensity presentation, the unique looking graphics, the super arcadey physics model, the quirky music. It's like they unlocked the formula for pure entertainment.
Usually I get easily bored with racing games like this that only have a small selection of courses, but Daytona USA's soundtrack adds massive replayability (the karaoke mode in the HD release is especially welcome)
OMG, Daytona, that song.... I worked at Tilt Arcade in 1998 located in the Mall of Memphis. They had Daytona next to the office so we constantly heard Daytona everytime, everday.
I have Daytona USA on both the Saturn (the CCE version) and Dreamcast and think they're amazing games but they never came close to replicating the experience of the original arcade machines, Daytona USA is legendary!
I’m glad somebody else said it he’s close they do the brickyard 400 same track but two totally different vehicles that’d be like saying Indy cars do the Monaco Grand Prix
My friends and i played the original Saturn port to death, taking it turns to attempt beating each others times, GREAT days! Its a game i still like to go back to today, playing on a CRT for the best possible picture. Fun Fact: all Saturn Daytona games can be played with the analog controller.
17:13 He also recently did Japanese festival style song "We Are ARKS!" (as part of a concert that also include Rare☆Drop☆Koi☆Koi ) for PSO2's (pre-NGS) anniversary events too.
“No arcade games of note [were based on NASCAR]” - actually not 100% true. There was a sit down Days of Thunder game (based on the Tom Cruise film) that was very popular.
I remember getting my friends and we tried to put our coins in at the same time so we can get the game saying "Please select a race course" at the same time. And the "Join now" music and the sfx when you the put the coins in is so memorable.
The funny thing is, NASCAR is only popular in "The Heartland of America" which is the mid-west and south. On either coasts you won't find any NASCAR memorabilia or anyone talking about it. Most people don't give two shits about it honestly. It's not like American Football where it's plastered everywhere whether you like it or not. NASCAR has a very specific demographic. I remember my late father was into NASCAR and the only thing we found in California were Fritos BBQ Twists chip bags with NASCAR stuff on it or the occasional can of chili.
15:39 “it may have had less textures than its predecessor Virtua Racing..” Virtua Facing doesn’t have any texture mapping, it uses flat-shaded polygons only. Daytona USA was the first Sega game that used texture mapped polygons, since Model 2’s muscle was needed for that tech. Incidentally, the first arcade game to ever use texture-mapped polygons was Namco’s Ridge Racer - the arch rival that drove Sega to create Daytona USA in the first place.
Honestly even as someone who grew up in the 2010s i was still lucky af to be able to play daytona usa back in 2012 (I was terrible at the game btw lol) and has been my favorite racing arcade games ever since along with indy 500 and outrun.....
OH HELL YEAH WOW DAMN D.J GREAT WAY YOU BUSTED THE TRACK YOUR EDITING IS UNTOUCHABLE DAYTONA DAYTONA AND THIS IS WHY THIS IS HANDS DOWN MY FAVORITE CHANNEL PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAYTONA DAYTONA BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER. YOUR MAN CHAMP
Great memories in the 90s playing this with mates in a quad cab setup. Being deafened by the speakers behind your head turned up to 11 was just part of the thrill and the strong force feedback on the wheel and thumping through the gear shift and flick the gears for the power slides on the bends it was the visceral nature of Daytona that slammed into the competition and left them spinning. Maybe it was too good to follow up. A good mate had the Saturn version which was everything like Slope says the draw and frame rate felt shocking at first but you got used to it after a few laps. We preferred Sega Rally on the Saturn but in the arcades Daytona! every time. Heads up for those near Barnsley England. Retrodome have a twin cab setup of Daytona USA 2 plus many many more retro games. A classic racer my mates enjoyed at Console and LAN parties was Midnight Club series of games. Not sure if Slope or anyone has covered that series of games but Midtown madness was related and is a classic game.
There's Tilt Studio about 30 min from me and they have the Sega Classic Racing game. Had no idea it existed. I didn't get a chance to play it but it was cool to see a remade version of it for arcades.
I play the arcade port of Daytona USA on my PS3 on my 55 inch 4K panel a lot today. It’s awesome! Game is still one of my favorites. it’s too bad that Sega couldn’t have built the Saturn around that $50.00 Model 2 chip and gave us a port of the arcade game back then. It would have sold even at $600.00, and made Sony cry as their Playstation would have looked like a gimped low budget system with its chunky 3D polygon graphics.
I remembered playing the 8-car version in China when I was a kid. I couldn’t reach the pedals so my mom used to work the pedals whiles I handle the wheel. There was even a host at the arcade.
one of the main differences between then and now is all those guys look like they are having fun doing all that. Those graphics are still amazing too. its the best looking game of its time of all time in my opinion.
Oh man, I barely had any games for my Saturn and I as such played the crap out of this one. Day-e toner! Let's go away! (Let's go away!) Wavy! Way-hay-vee! Wavy! Way-hay-vee!
Amazing retrospective 🤗. Congrats! Love both main games. From gameplay, ost and graphics. I would love to see a Collection with Daytona USa 1&2 plus Dreamcast 2001!!
My only experience with the series was with the original arcade version in the States, though not at an actual arcade! Furthermore, we took a different approach than most: 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.
Sega racers are amazing. Good Gameplay and the graphics have great low poly art Direction that stood the test of time. I wish they would make a edition for PC only with controls updated Also for gamepad and keyboards.
As much as I love Daytona, it died pretty quickly where I grew up after Crusin' USA and San Francisco Rush came out. We only really played Daytona after that because of the multiplayer and I don't even remember ever seeing a Ridge Racer cabinet. Ridge Racer was that racing game you played on the PSX
Hey I got Daytona USA Deluxe to run on Windows 10 recently lol. It now uses higher resolutions and uses audio without using the CD. First time playing the game and I missed a lot and its great to see this documentary.
*DAYTOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAA!* *DAYTOOOONAAAAAA LET'S GO AWAY!* (LET'S GO AWAY) *DAYTOOOOOONAAAAAAAA!* I always loved the theme. His voice is still amazing to this day.
15:39 Less textures than Virtua Racing?? Dude, Virtua Racing had NO textures at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure this game had more of everything when it came to graphics.
@@FoSS777 Really? Idk if you'd be able to share them in the comments section (not sure if UA-cam would remove them). Do you have the titles of any of these articles?
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They are probably using the fuel at the Daytona 500 in a NASCAR :p unless they are driving an indy car :p
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The sound of the arcade machine yelling "DAYTONAAAA!" As I play Magic The Gathering is etched into my brain forever.
I couldn’t help but sing it out loud as soon as I saw the thumbnail
Wait until you hear a woman speak to you for the first time.
@@dbycrash even if that ever happens I'll still hear "DAYTONAAAA!"
@@TheCheat420 try using it for music during whoopie with said lady and the moment you climax sing “DAYYY TOO NAHHHH”. If she looks at you like a weirdo, simply say “did you not enjoy the ride?”
Man the Saturn was such a fun and interesting console when it came out. It still has a feeling same as Dreamcast, that no other consoles pulled off.
...the feeling of utter failure?
🎶DDDDDAAAAAAYYYYYTTTTTOOOONNNNAAAAA!!!!!🎶
The Hornet was not in Fighting Vipers but in Fighters Megamix.
During the Daytona USA days the local mall had a large arcade and had an 8 player Daytona USA setup. It was awesome to play in 8 player mode even if it was $1 per player per race. It was one of the big reasons why my friends and I were big into PC LAN parties later in the 90's and well into the 2000's.
I only ever played 8 players a few times back in the day and with random people. But they were seriously memorable moments
Finishing up a few vids and I will get on that
My cousin was one of those kids that no matter what you did he was always just a bit better and so smug about it. Daytona USA was the first game I beat him at so he threw a controller through my TV screen and I was the one that got punished for it.
@OK sounds like you've got a nice friend there. Hope you still hang out and beat up his brother together 😭
At least now you know damn well that you beat him fair and square and considering how annoying this guy sounds like it must have been satisfying as !@#$% beating him.....
Hahahah wonder if cousin became a cop or something.
{Cousin..my controller was a mad Katz
im way too young to have played this game back when it was released (i was born in 2004), but i remember my dad had a version of it on a pc we had and i absolutely loved it! fast forward a couple of years and recently i got to play it on an arcade and its such a fun game! like, seriously, i basically spent all my tickets only on that machine, trying to get better! sure, i already love racing games, but it was remarkably fun in a way i hadnt felt about games in a good while! definitely one of the best arcade games of all time
26:33 I started jamming, Scud Race is so underrated!
Sega were truly kings in the arcade. I really wish we got a home port of Daytona 2 and Scud Race.
For me, Scud Race out of those two. I played Scud Race a hell of a lot
Hear! Hear!
In case you don't know, you can play Daytona 2 and Scud Race on PC using the Supermodel emulator. It runs flawlessly arcade perfect and beyond. You can run it in 4k and widescreen. I'm not sure how well it plays with a keyboard or a controller, but you can bind the controls however way you like, but if you have a steering wheel, then you can have the legit arcade experience. it supports steering wheel out of the box with force feedback. I'm sure you would prefer an official release, but judging by SEGA's missteps in these ports, chances are, they wouldn't be as good as playing the real arcade version enhanced by modern emulation settings.
@@thiagovidal6137 I know about emulation, in fact I can also recommend F355 Ferrari Challenge which I once tried out in Demul. It even has multiple displays!
3:16 - a bit of correction: the "Indy 500" is an IndyCar race (hence the name of the series), and although NASCAR does race at Indianapolis, its race is called the "Brickyard 400".
Yeah I thought it was obvious and I've not wesearched a "complete history" of.
Many fond memories with this. For many kids in the mid-90s, this arcade was our first exposure to how racing games of the then new generation would be like. As always, an excellent retrospective.
This is the most complete documentary you can find about this game ! And very well done ! Just that documentary makes me buy the Blu ray volume one from slopes !
Excellent video Dan! You've done the series proud.
Appreciated mate
@@slopesgameroom nice video. Nascar drivers don't race in the Indianapolis 500 though, that's Formula One.
Dan, have you still got a PS3 and a copy of Daytona? Want to get involved in some online games this weekend (6th Nov)? We're going to be playing the game starting at 13:00 on Saturday (then Outrun Online Arcade at the same time on Sunday).
Fun Fact: Nascar had exhibition races in Japan on Suzuka (east course) and the Twin Ring Motegi Oval.
Hey Slopes Game Room, glad to see you made another video of one of my top 10 favorite arcade games of my youth. Always loved playing this game with friends of mine back in the day and this video brought back many of those memories. Thanks again for another great video.
I've got to play the original cabinet like two years ago and despite having played the game earlier in one of the Saturn ports and really liking the game there, I fell in love with this game while playing the cabinet, it's an amazing game even near 30 years later after it was released.
First time I heard of this game was at a roller rink some 17 years ago. I’ll never forget how hard my head spun when I heard “DAYYYYYTONNNAAAA!!!”
So glad you covered Daytona in this series, the arcades got me into gaming and Daytona was a massive part of that and this really was a pleasure to watch and was thoroughly enjoyable, thank you! Big Tekken fan as well so look forward to that 👍🏻
DAYYYYYYYY TONAAAAAAAAA DAY TONA YEEEAAAA lol that song got stuck in my head for years
I miss those years, VR was just starting to pop up and hologram stands were in a few arcades I visited. Stuff like that is why I jumped into computers back then and still work with them is a professional.
I was playing this in 1995. I was hooked immediately. The experience never left me.
Will always remember the opening 'Dayyytonnnaaaaaa', those were the days.
Everytime I went to Iowa I80 The World's Largest Truck Stop, I played the Daytona USA arcade game. I was a over the road semi driver and after a long day, a shower and a race on this iconic game was an amazing end to the day. Sometimes if I was driving with someone, they would race me or a random person would race me, I rarely played alone at that truck stop. I miss driving over the road because of that.
Sega was not shy to taking inspiration from American movies like Blue Thunder (Thunder Blade), Top Gun (Afterburner) and Days of Thunder (Daytona USA). Good stuff Slope my man. This is still my #1 arcade racer of all time. I still play this every time I see one.
Hahaha yeah for sure... I will get to Thunder Blade eventually btw
The hornet also made it into a little fan game called Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart alongside one of the tracks. the funniest part is the grphics are similar to the original Saturn port due to the game's engine being a heavily modified Doom port.
Cruisin USA 🇺🇸 Daytona , nice games
I love this game. The minute I get to the arcades, I go straight to Daytona.
At the time this came out my parents wouldn't buy a system for us kids until I was 16 got a ps2 so I spent countless hours in stores as a kid glued to the demo units you could play in the electronics and toy departments
Great retrospective!! I never even knew Daytona USA had such a great legacy behind it, let alone that it has sequels!
Glad you enjoyed it! really had a lot of fun with this video
@@slopesgameroom That's good to hear! Also, really hyped for the Tekken: The Complete History video!
Thank you so much for your dedicated content my good Friend. It has been always a pleasure to watch your stuff and it means a lot to me. Keep it up
Imagine being a kid and seeing the absolute beauty of 4 or more Daytona cabinets linked together in your local arcade, or even better the full scale Ridge Racer cabinet. No wonder I've been in love with the MX5 ever since.
Man the model 3 era was insane. The graphical leap shown in magazines at that time blew my mind. I went to the arcade all the time hoping to see Scud Race in person and didn't get to see it until like 5 years later. I always will have a soft spot spot for the color palette and vibrancy of the model 2/3 games
i remember seeing Daytona USA in arcades when i was a kid, but i never played it, my heart and my money belonged to Time Crisis. I downloaded it on Ps3 a while ago though, i struggled with the controls at first, but when you get the hang of it, by god this game becomes so addicting. Great video as always Daniel!
I loved time crisis. But much prefer it on the arcade with the arcade gun.
@@adamabbas1487 me too, home ports of light gun games never satisfied me
Watched this a while back, saw it pop up in my recommended search and clicked again to make sure I had liked the video - because this one was so good! Great documentary as always Slopes :)
This video came out so incredibly well! Thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks for putting it together. I had no idea there was technically a “Daytona 3” and it was cool to see how the series got its start next to Ridge Racer!
As a kid growing up in Central Florida who loved racing, I felt quite proud when I'd see Daytona USA somewhere. Even better is knowing about the cat in Scud Race as I use to call my Daisy a NASCAT because she delighted in racing across our living room, up the stairs, hairpin turn into my room and end up on the other side of it stopped on a dime on my easy chair. I had no choice but to call it her time trials.
I think the themesong is even more legendary than the game itself!
That tune is so popular that even in saltybet whenever the song plays, the chat just spams DAAAAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAAAA without fail every single time lol
Coming back to this video is perfect seeing as Daytona USA 2 is FINALLY getting a home port as part of the arcade games you can play in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name that releases on November 9th.
Crying at those reverbed out samples in the intro. Absolutely ridiculous, loved it. ✌🏻
Song title: Racing Hearts
By: Mattie Maguire
Some people have a lot of love for Outrun but for me Daytona USA was the king. If you never experienced the game in the arcades at the time look up what sort of games were possible on home consoles in '93 and '94 by comparison. Daytona blew them out of the water and threw them a few miles inland. A Daytona cabinet was pretty much a litmus test to how good your amusement arcade was. It's a shame that the arcade scene is in such rough shape now, the home consoles were good but it was the arcades where the awe-inspiring technology was on show. Daytona USA isn't one of my favourite franchises nowadays but it's well and truly earned it's spot in gaming history.
Nice! This came on my Playlist as I am fixing my Sega Super Gt arcade game! Love it!
"Make a game that's better than Ridge Racer"
Hah. Man, Sega-Namco rivalry was wild. Absolutely top-tier stuff on both sides of the aisle.
I fully understand Namco bowing out and going in on way cheaper Playstation based hardware for their arcade games, while Sega still went in on the expensive Model 2 and 3 for a while until the NAOMI came out, but it's still a shame.
Daytona was shown before Ridge Racer in arcades during development stage in Japan... what killed the Sega Saturn was Sega of America's Tom Kalinske having ZERO clue about how to launch a game console, never mind a next generation and was attached to exploiting the Genesis user base in North America while convincing Sega Japan to manufacture the 32X...
That killed the development of Sega Saturn because Sega programmers were split in developing a game on 32X and on Sega Saturn...
Thus if Tom Kalinske was replaced, it means no 32X and ONLY Sega Saturn as a next generation Sega path... which means all those wasted 32X games become Sega Saturn launch games and instead of Virtua Fighter 1 carrying the Sega Saturn in Japan, you would have had Virtua Racing being handled by Sega's internal dev team in Japan for Sega Saturn instead of 32X leading to closer to the arcade game running on more powerfull hardware.
It then means Sega-AM2 would be freed up also from all the platforms they were working on and instead that dev team... CS-Team 1 would have handled Daytona USA with Sega-AM2 much later... because Virtua Racing on Sega Saturn would have been far more meaningful and would have really been a better racing game to Ridge Racer.
I am so glad I stumbled on this. Very well done and researched. I had no idea why the game was so advanced and still holds up today with the incredible force feedback steering wheel. I played this game so much as a teenager in arcades. 8 machines linked together created some intense competition in our local arcade. I spent a small fortune. I wish I could play it on my PS4. I am hoping that a 1up Arcade version is coming since we now have Ridge Racer.
Fun curiosity: Virtual Racing wasn't planned to be a game at all. It was literally just a tech demo the team worked on as a learning playground. For most of it's development there was no intention of ever releasing it to the public. The developers would use it just for experimenting and testing.. but as it kept getting better and more fun, they realised they actually had a product on their hands and polished it further for release.
This game still holds up today. Back in 1994, this was like a game from the future.
Yup. I'll never forget seeing those rolling clouds on the windshield for the first time.
Great video I remember playing Daytona at the arcades in Australia with my mates memories of good times
best racer ever. both in presentation and the tactile feedback cabinet ( 2 seater and up)
It is the BGM that gets me all the time. Everytime I heard it, I just want to play it.
Love this arcade game.
One of my most favorite videos I've seen on UA-cam. Thanks for putting it together!
Dooo do do do dooo dooooooooooo!!!! Thanks for covering this, and including Scud Race. Many great memories playing both Daytona and Scud Race in the arcades, as well as Daytona on my Sega Saturn.
The only arcade machine from that time that is in every single arcade
The company Sega worked with was Lockheed Martin for the model 1 and 2 boards
The Original Daytona USA is THE Highest Earning Arcade Game of ALL TIME.
It's crazy.
Daytona USA is always going to be the measuring stick of which racing games are actually fun
There's something about Daytona USA that is timeless and the sequel cabinets never matched. The high intensity presentation, the unique looking graphics, the super arcadey physics model, the quirky music. It's like they unlocked the formula for pure entertainment.
Usually I get easily bored with racing games like this that only have a small selection of courses, but Daytona USA's soundtrack adds massive replayability (the karaoke mode in the HD release is especially welcome)
OMG, Daytona, that song.... I worked at Tilt Arcade in 1998 located in the Mall of Memphis. They had Daytona next to the office so we constantly heard Daytona everytime, everday.
Days of Thunder is one of my favourite movies of all time and I have never watched a single NASCAR race in my life.
I have Daytona USA on both the Saturn (the CCE version) and Dreamcast and think they're amazing games but they never came close to replicating the experience of the original arcade machines, Daytona USA is legendary!
NASCAR racers don’t race in the Indy 500
I’m glad somebody else said it he’s close they do the brickyard 400 same track but two totally different vehicles that’d be like saying Indy cars do the Monaco Grand Prix
My friends and i played the original Saturn port to death, taking it turns to attempt beating each others times, GREAT days! Its a game i still like to go back to today, playing on a CRT for the best possible picture.
Fun Fact: all Saturn Daytona games can be played with the analog controller.
36:50 The car from FIGHTERS MEGAMIX not Fighting vipers.
17:13 He also recently did Japanese festival style song "We Are ARKS!" (as part of a concert that also include Rare☆Drop☆Koi☆Koi ) for PSO2's (pre-NGS) anniversary events too.
“No arcade games of note [were based on NASCAR]” - actually not 100% true. There was a sit down Days of Thunder game (based on the Tom Cruise film) that was very popular.
Technically, there was two Days of Thunder games until one got canned and the other one got released on the NES.
I remember getting my friends and we tried to put our coins in at the same time so we can get the game saying "Please select a race course" at the same time. And the "Join now" music and the sfx when you the put the coins in is so memorable.
I love that me and heaps of other hardcore sim racers who shun arcade games just go: "but this is Daytona it is amazing" :D
Daytona International Speedway had an arcade room in their museum that had 40 daytona usa machines in it the last time I went there in 2006.
So many fond memories of late night at the arcades playing Daytona. Wouldn't trade em for nothing!
The funny thing is, NASCAR is only popular in "The Heartland of America" which is the mid-west and south. On either coasts you won't find any NASCAR memorabilia or anyone talking about it. Most people don't give two shits about it honestly. It's not like American Football where it's plastered everywhere whether you like it or not. NASCAR has a very specific demographic. I remember my late father was into NASCAR and the only thing we found in California were Fritos BBQ Twists chip bags with NASCAR stuff on it or the occasional can of chili.
15:39 “it may have had less textures than its predecessor Virtua Racing..”
Virtua Facing doesn’t have any texture mapping, it uses flat-shaded polygons only. Daytona USA was the first Sega game that used texture mapped polygons, since Model 2’s muscle was needed for that tech.
Incidentally, the first arcade game to ever use texture-mapped polygons was Namco’s Ridge Racer - the arch rival that drove Sega to create Daytona USA in the first place.
Honestly even as someone who grew up in the 2010s i was still lucky af to be able to play daytona usa back in 2012
(I was terrible at the game btw lol) and has been my favorite racing arcade games ever since along with indy 500 and outrun.....
OH HELL YEAH WOW DAMN D.J GREAT WAY YOU BUSTED THE TRACK YOUR EDITING IS UNTOUCHABLE DAYTONA DAYTONA AND THIS IS WHY THIS IS HANDS DOWN MY FAVORITE CHANNEL PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAYTONA DAYTONA BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER. YOUR MAN CHAMP
Still one of my favorite arcade racing games! Daytona FTW!
I one day hope to own at least eight of these wonderful arcade cabs haha.
Great memories in the 90s playing this with mates in a quad cab setup. Being deafened by the speakers behind your head turned up to 11 was just part of the thrill and the strong force feedback on the wheel and thumping through the gear shift and flick the gears for the power slides on the bends it was the visceral nature of Daytona that slammed into the competition and left them spinning. Maybe it was too good to follow up.
A good mate had the Saturn version which was everything like Slope says the draw and frame rate felt shocking at first but you got used to it after a few laps. We preferred Sega Rally on the Saturn but in the arcades Daytona! every time.
Heads up for those near Barnsley England. Retrodome have a twin cab setup of Daytona USA 2 plus many many more retro games.
A classic racer my mates enjoyed at Console and LAN parties was Midnight Club series of games. Not sure if Slope or anyone has covered that series of games but Midtown madness was related and is a classic game.
There's Tilt Studio about 30 min from me and they have the Sega Classic Racing game. Had no idea it existed. I didn't get a chance to play it but it was cool to see a remade version of it for arcades.
this was an amazing episode. excellent job!
I play the arcade port of Daytona USA on my PS3 on my 55 inch 4K panel a lot today. It’s awesome! Game is still one of my favorites.
it’s too bad that Sega couldn’t have built the Saturn around that $50.00 Model 2 chip and gave us a port of the arcade game back then. It would have sold even at $600.00, and made Sony cry as their Playstation would have looked like a gimped low budget system with its chunky 3D polygon graphics.
Dude, you killed me when you put on that clip of the club boys dancing to C.C.E.'s music, hahahahaha
I remember playing this in ESPN Zone. They need to remaster this for current & next gen consoles.
I remembered playing the 8-car version in China when I was a kid. I couldn’t reach the pedals so my mom used to work the pedals whiles I handle the wheel.
There was even a host at the arcade.
AWESOME, DAN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎇🍾🔥
INTERVIEW NOT WITHSTANDING 😁!!!
one of the main differences between then and now is all those guys look like they are having fun doing all that. Those graphics are still amazing too. its the best looking game of its time of all time in my opinion.
Oh man, I barely had any games for my Saturn and I as such played the crap out of this one. Day-e toner! Let's go away! (Let's go away!)
Wavy! Way-hay-vee! Wavy! Way-hay-vee!
Amazing retrospective 🤗. Congrats!
Love both main games. From gameplay, ost and graphics. I would love to see a Collection with Daytona USa 1&2 plus Dreamcast 2001!!
one of my favorite arcade games
Daytona ‘95 on Saturn is the best home version of Daytona, full stop.
My only experience with the series was with the original arcade version in the States, though not at an actual arcade! Furthermore, we took a different approach than most:
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.
Excellent video Slopes. Few bits and bobs in there I didn't know! Particularly the Japanese Saturn Circuit Edition!
Sega racers are amazing. Good Gameplay and the graphics have great low poly art Direction that stood the test of time. I wish they would make a edition for PC only with controls updated Also for gamepad and keyboards.
Excellent video like always and much respect for all the research you put in for all of these videos! Looking forward to your next one!
Definitely watch Archipel's UA-cam interview with the Daytona singer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. Nostalgia overload.
As much as I love Daytona, it died pretty quickly where I grew up after Crusin' USA and San Francisco Rush came out. We only really played Daytona after that because of the multiplayer and I don't even remember ever seeing a Ridge Racer cabinet. Ridge Racer was that racing game you played on the PSX
The attract mode of 8 player cabinet is a sight to behold.
Hey I got Daytona USA Deluxe to run on Windows 10 recently lol. It now uses higher resolutions and uses audio without using the CD. First time playing the game and I missed a lot and its great to see this documentary.
*DAYTOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAA!*
*DAYTOOOONAAAAAA LET'S GO AWAY!* (LET'S GO AWAY)
*DAYTOOOOOONAAAAAAAA!*
I always loved the theme. His voice is still amazing to this day.
15:39
Less textures than Virtua Racing??
Dude, Virtua Racing had NO textures at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure this game had more of everything when it came to graphics.
Slip of the tongue I presume he means less polygons.
@@FoSS777
Eh, Daytona has more of those too lol
@@LarryLopez91 there are articles online claiming otherwise in a few places.
@@FoSS777
Really?
Idk if you'd be able to share them in the comments section (not sure if UA-cam would remove them).
Do you have the titles of any of these articles?