Explosive 3D racing second to none! Sega Saturn's smooth 3D texture-mapped graphics create high speed, bumper-to-bumper racing. Realistic stock car control with drafting, controlled braking, 4 wheel drifts and skillful acceleration. Punishing end-over-end crashes let you know you blew it. CD-quality sound recreates the engine noise and thunder of real stock cars. Three challenging tracks demand total control and intense concentration. Four dynamic driving perspectives.

A port of the most successful arcade racer ever, the home versions of Daytona USA include the same elements that made the original version successful: three highly detailed tracks, arcade driving physics that challenge the player to find the best trajectory to make a flying lap without kissing the rails and beating the checkpoint timer. The 40 cars of the Easy race (later named 3-7 Speedway), one of the stalwarts of the original version, are also present in this version.

These home versions include a new mode (Saturn or PC Mode, depending on the platform) where the three tracks are played without the timer, and optionally in mirror mode, using one of the bonus cars (with additional abilities such as driving on grass or hitting the rails without losing speed) and in one of three lengths: Normal (identical to the arcade original), Grand Prix (2.5 times longer) and Endurance (10 times longer).

On the downside, detail and frame rate suffered a drop to fit the game into the limited hardware of the Saturn and Personal Computers, and lacking any kind of multiplayer, comparing to the two to eight player rumbles of the arcade version.

Source.

Platform

Sega Saturn

Developer(s)

Sega AM2

Publishers(s)

Sega

Genres(s)

Racing

NA Release Date

May 11, 1995

JP Release Date

April 1, 1995

EU Release Date

July 1, 1995

ESRB Rating

Everyone

PEGI Rating

PEGI 3

MVGL User Score

6.8 by 16 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

-

Composer(s)

Takayuki Nakamura, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Kazuhiko Kouchi

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26 User(s)

This game also exists on:
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