Kids these days JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND how awesome sauce it is being a kid born in the 90's! Games like Daytona USA 2: Power hold a special place in our hearts!
Kids these days just don't understand how much games like Daytona USA 2 means a great deal to us 90's kids! If we can get them away from Minecraft and get them to play this, then maybe we can get them to understand how dope the 90's are!
Before drifting became a popular term we used to call it power sliding. The 90s were also the time when JDM tuning became much more popular. Barely anyone in the US knew of the Nissan Skyline GTR. heck, the Toyota Supra was still affordable because The Fast and Furious movies weren't even in the works yet.
This course is what I remember the most about Daytona 2. I think I played this at Chuck E. Cheese around 15-20 years ago and that massive swinging pirate ship and the Space Harrier segment stuck out to me as a kid. It just looked so cool (and still is today)!
I remember playing this arcade game at Chuck E. Cheese's back in the day as well. It took me many years to figure out what arcade game with flapping stock car trunks and colorful menu screens was!
Wow I didn't even know this had an option to allow full pratice length on every race in the champtionship! Is this a custom ROM set, or is this on the original cabinet? What kind of crazy arcade op would enable this mode xD
Wow this track is literally Laguna Seca with no t1 hairpin and a banked corner linking the 90 degree left to a downhill left connecting an accurate copy of Lagua Seca's northern complex!
Christ Fellowship used to have this game in the old building of the Children's Ministry but, it operates only with the start button and the insert coin message not used
This ONLY works (on Arcade version) if: You've completed the requirements to unlock the secret cars, which is: 1. The game has to have been running for 4 weeks worth of time. 2. The game has to have been played 100 times (some say 1000, but I think it's 100) So if you don't have the ability to select the two hidden cars, then this path won't open up, even if you've knocked down the cones. Also: if the cones aren't there to begin with, then you have an earlier version. Again, this is all specifically for the arcade version.
Holy cr@p, who knew the beginner race could be so merciless, too many cars got KO'd Also, I loved how the music was pretty much setting the ending at lap 39 and resoluted in the same tone as the goal jingle. Conveniently beautiful 😆👏
The feeling you get when you walk into an arcade and see something like this for the first time, when at the time there was nothing else like it. Young people will never know that feeling, it was very special
We were seeing huge advances in arcade games at a regular pace back then. Look at the difference between Segas Outrun, to Virtua Racing, and then to Daytona USA and Sega Rally Championship. The 4 gear shifting and the Drift /Power slide mechanics of Daytona were just as amazing also.
I just realized, it appears they modeled off Highland Raceway off of Laguna Seca based off the course shape and that corkscrew section. It's not a 1 to 1 copy, but it's definitely there.
Its unreal to think that 5 years later after the first time I watched this video, this game is finally free from obscurity and playable in Like a Dragon Gaiden on consoles. Oh, and recently I finally eas able to win this race with the Hornet on MT justnlike you arter years of being afraid of it (and then being unable to handle the twitchiness until I recently adjusted it through Steam Input). I hope you have been doing well all these years :)
I can't be the only one laughing their ass off over the fact that the safety crew was still trying to put out a fire when they went one to go under caution
I hope you guys continue or double in another year with ms Finster. Bye bye. I'm going to high school. Stay in junior high once and for long, you clowns/jerk.
