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Daytona USA

Sega Dreamcast2001 · 2000sE - Everyone
Racing

Just like the arcade version, pick one of three tracks (beginner, advanced, or expert) and either automatic or standard transmission. A pounding music soundtrack kicks in as you are slapped into your car to await the green light. The game offers both a traditional arcade mode with checkpoint time splits and a special PC mode that pits you against the other cars over different race distances. The PC mode also offers more car choices, with a variety of speed, acceleration, and grip characteristics. It even rewards successful players (meaning those finishing first, second, or third in the difficult setting) by offering up to ten more upgraded cars to drive. Once underway, the goal is to work from last to first as smoothly and quickly as possible

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Sega Dreamcast

Overview

Just like the arcade version, pick one of three tracks (beginner, advanced, or expert) and either automatic or standard transmission. A pounding music soundtrack kicks in as you are slapped into your car to await the green light. The game offers both a traditional arcade mode with checkpoint time splits and a special PC mode that pits you against the other cars over different race distances. The…

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Trivia & Facts

In September 1992, Sega partnered with the engineering division GE Aerospace to create its new arcade system board, the Model 2.

They were connected via a cold call from GE's Bob Hichborn, who met with Sega executives at the division's Daytona Beach, Florida headquarters in 1990, and later at Sega's headquarters in Tokyo in November of the same year.

GE estimated that their sale of the Model 2's graphics technology accelerated Sega's arcade hardware development by 14 months.

The heads of Sega's regional offices began discussing ideas for games to demonstrate the Model 2's capabilities.

Sega's previous board, the Model 1, had debuted in 1992 with Virtua Racing, which was popular in Japan and Europe.

Tom Petit, president of Sega's American arcade division Sega Enterprises USA, suggested that NASCAR would be an attractive brand to use for a Model 2 game in the US.