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

PC

Developer(s)

Sega AM2

Publishers(s)

Sega

Genres(s)

Racing

NA Release Date

August 12, 1996

JP Release Date

December 6, 1996

ESRB Rating

Everyone

MVGL User Score

7.7 by 11 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

3.0000

Composer(s)

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12 User(s)

This game also exists on:
Arcade Sega Dreamcast Sega Saturn Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S

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