The arcade version of Daytona USA offers three courses to race on: a Beginner course with a tweaked tri-oval layout an Advanced course that sees you racing around a rocky canyon area and an Expert course that takes you to a lovely little seaside town. In contrast to Virtua Racing’s flat-shaded polygons, Daytona USA wowed audiences back in ’94 with its 60fps fully texture mapped polygonal environments - something which even home consoles of the period couldn’t quite match.

And titles like Daytona USA are a fantastic example of this.ĭaytona USA, lest you are unfamiliar, is Sega’s 1994 follow-up to its classic arcade racer Virtua Racing, which got a cracking Sega Ages port to Nintendo Switch a while back. Over time, the platform grew into a rather more generic digital download store - but it never quite forgot that all-important “arcade” side of things. But then we had Xbox Live Arcade, which began its life as a digital download platform specifically for these short-form arcade-style experiences that no longer had a place at retail.

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