Daytona USA
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.
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | Intel Pentium | |
RAM | 8 MB | |
OS | Windows 95 |