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Arcade Longplay [229] Daytona USA

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Played By: Uncle Bone

Daytona usa is one of the highest grossing arcades of all time, and one
of the most respected arcade racing games ever made, but poorly ported
on most plataforms.

00:00 Atract mode video of all 3 stages
03:06 Beginner course
07:12 Advanced course
12:01 Expert course

i used some of the easter egg music that is played when you
use some specific initials on your name on a record, the
ones shown are:

A.B - After Burner, at the end of the begginer track
V.R - Virtua Racing, at the end of the advanced track
P.D - Power Drift, at the end of the expert track
*there are many others, i picked my 3 favorites for this video.

Played using the m2 emulator, version 1.0, the virtual arcade machine is set to the "deluxe cabinet", on normal dificulty, without network support (single machine)

i have acess to the actual real hardware, but record offscreen video from a crt monitor would simply suck.

the screen output of the emulator "mostly matches" the arcade, but the emulation have some minor bugs in geometry (mostly z fighting in the shadows and tress, also some "lack of zbuffer" usage on some geometry)

i tried to be mostly completionist in this video, showed the atract mode (with sound enabled) on all 3 track, and played the tracks in order, aiming to the first place, to show the "game credits" in the end of each race.
in each "record" screen, i used one of the avaible easter eggs of classic music from other sega games.

Beginner course, signed A.B. (plays After Burner music)
Advanced course, signed V.R. (plays Virtua Racing music)
Expert course, signed P.D. (plays Power Drift music) -
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20 Comments

@PrimitiveBaroque 3 years ago

The sound and tangible experience of this arcade was extraordinary. When you get the "Start your engines" screen, the seat literally shakes from the engine startups - If I recall there are speakers mounted behind you on the seats. Then you get a steering wheel that has enough force feedback to react from the car movements and drifts. It was just so ahead of its time.

Today as a 3D artist, the way they managed to work with the limitations of the time were very creative. The shadows were not raycast shadows, they are actually flat geometrical planes shaded in black to resemble shadows. So these planes are children, or inherit the transforms, of its parent car. You can tell because the "shadow planes" clip against the track.

The sky "reflection" on the back of the car is just a seamless texture that is connected to the car's acceleration. As the car moves, the texture projection translates in the V (up/down) direction.

Another detail is the tire marks on the road. I'm not too sure how they did this, but I'm assuming it's broken up into transparent sprites over the track, close enough that it looks like they are part of the track itself. The way the track itself is textured, the most efficient way is to stack each polygon of the road and use a seamless road texture.

@fruitlion8 10 years ago

Gods. Imagine working at an arcade and only hearing this demo song again and again. I think I'd go insane...

@AruãRamosMetellodeAssis 13 years ago

Rated "E" for every quarter in your pocket.

@axelfoley20 7 years ago

Talk about a game that was WAY ahead of its time! Even after 25 years it still looks good!

@Smilinghappyhappyman 7 years ago (edited)

This game must have been absolutely mindblowing in 1993 - 1994

@trollatlarge 6 years ago

I was 9 years old when this came and mum gave me some token to play this. I sat in the seat, inserted the coin, pressed play button and felt so excited. I actually literally shat. The arcade man working told me to leave because I pooped on the seat and mum grounded me. What a amazing day

@marieando9088 5 years ago

3:06 Begginer Course
7:12 Advanced Course
12:01 Expert Course

@douro20 4 years ago (edited)

Still the most expensive single-player cabinet ever produced at US$20,000 in 1994 The reason: the graphics hardware. Sega at the time was looking to really push the envelope in 3D performance, and they went to GE's aerospace division looking for the answer. They found it in a chipset GE had just developed for flight simulation graphics. The technology was so advanced that to integrate it in the form GE was producing it at the time would had cost US$20 million per game (that's no typo). Sega's engineers condensed down the chipset into a pair of low-power CMOS chips which just cost $150 each to produce, but the cost of developing for such cutting edge hardware mean that they had to sell the finished game hardware at an unprecedentedly high price point of $20,000 per player. As for the graphics technology itself, it was later sold to Martin Marietta, who sold it under the name Real3D.

@misteuraxe691 7 years ago (edited)

"GEE, A, M, E, O, OOH, E, R,
GEE-A-M-E-O-OOH-E-R,
GAMEOVERGAMEOVERGAMEOVERGAMEOVER"

@silentzorah 4 years ago

I never knew you could drift in this game.

@NexusArtRealm 10 years ago

I was a teenager when this game first hit the arcade at our local mall. I'll never forget how I felt when first I saw this thing, with people surrounding it. It blew my mind. Never have I seen such beautiful graphics. The closest to 3D style racing we had back then, used mode 7 technology with games such as F-Zero and Mario Cart *which both were available about 1 to 3 years prior to Daytona USA's debut, I believe. The game developers have come a LONG way since then, but I'll always appreciate the level of excitement milestone games like this one, brought to our world. lol Man... the 90s was a blast, specifically in the entertainment area. Comics, video games, toys, movies, tv shows (x-files), music... it was all so much fun. I still have a stash of EGM and Gamepro mags I used to collect during this era. I remember the big articles on Daytona USA. It was groundbreaking for it's time. I wish I knew what I had back then, because I honestly didn't appreciate it as much as I should have.

@LexTan 10 years ago

It's amazing how this game is still available at select places like Dave and Busters in Toronto, still making money for Sega, and entertaining a whole bunch of late Gen Xers and early millenials...

@thezeon5 6 years ago

This, SEGA Rally Championship and OutRun, are my 3 favorite arcades of all time!

@SimpsonLover 10 years ago

just watching this game and listening to its song,makes me really nostalgic..i miss the arcades so badly man sigh

@TheDalinkwent 10 years ago

I remember this old toy store back in the 90's called "Toy Works" had this as a arcade game in the store. I'll never forget being blow away by the graphics and getting this song stuck in my head.

Memories.

@yin6287 5 years ago

My childhood game. Man this music gives me nostalgia

@zoomsetdigitalcinema4513 5 years ago

2021 y se siguen viendo emocionantes esos movimientos de cámara.

@jdmweeb8663 10 years ago (edited)

Damn I used to waste hours (and tokens) on this in the arcades...

Please select a racecourse... BEGINNER
Please choose Manual or Automatic transmission... AUTOMATIC
GENTLEMEN. START YOUR ENGINES

ROLLING STTAAAAAARRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT!

@gideonwaxfarb 13 years ago

I remember playing UMK3 for hours in the arcade, and this game was sitting right beside it. That intro tune on indefinite repeat was enough to drive someone to drink... I can't imagine how bad it was for people who worked there. But hearing it now brings back memories :) RIP arcades.

@sgtsniperlyfe3469 5 years ago

Still my favorite game at the Arcade for 2 reasons the music and when the image pops up when it said “gentleman start your engines”. It’s so nostalgic