Ranking EVERY Cruis'n Game From WORST TO BEST (Top 6 Games) 

fuckin legend

Are you talking about Eugene Jarvis?

Yes and he also created the hit Defender way back!

I remember playing that FnF arcade game that later became Cruis'n on the Wii at a waterpark cabinet, and just like many arcade games I would play it just started living in my mind rent-free. Fast forward several years, and I got to play the Wii version indefinitely on a homebrewed console. Whenever I play it, I feel like I shouldn't be liking it because it does a crappy job at so many things, but at the same time I cannot put enough distance from and always want to come back to it, somehow. And, after recently starting to play Blast, I gotta say it doesn't feel too different from that title, despite the quality being way better when it comes to presentation. I really wonder why do people like Blast so much and hate Cruis'n Wii so much at the same time, they aren't all that different, aside from their polish.

I'll make a few minor corrections. Midway didn't "rip-off" the F&F arcade, they licensed the game from Raw Thrills, which as you note was founded by ex-Midway guys led by Cruis'n creator Eugene Jarvis after Midway dropped out of the arcade market. The reason the Wii version didn't have the F&F license was because Namco had already picked up the home console rights so Midway couldn't use it even if the game they were putting out was an otherwise rather faithful port of the rather popular arcade game (which really had little to do with the movies other than the name and the selection of cars being ones in the first two movies). So instead Midway gave the Wii version the title of what the game really is, the follow-up to the original Cruis'n trilogy, a title Raw Thrills didn't have the rights to as it was co-owned by Midway and Nintendo. And Just Games was only the company hired by Midway to handle the conversion, they didn't come up with the idea of porting the arcade game. As for Raw Thrills and the F&F license, they did lose it at one point, shortly after the second updated version of the arcade game came out. The first F&F arcade game was given an updated edition with F&F: Drift, which added more tracks set in Japan and replaced cars with ones from the Japanese set third movie, which came out around the same time. It was available both as new cabinets, and as an update to the first cabinet. They later did a second update, F&F: SuperCars, that added more tracks taken from their motorcycle game Super Bikes, introduced a whole new car line-up of the namesake supercars, and upgraded the graphics to high-def. However, not long after it was released, their F&F license expired, but instead of discontinuing the cabinet entirely as it was still in production, they just removed the F&F logos from the software and marquee, and titled it simply SuperCars. Later, when they made their next game in the series, instead of calling it SuperCars 2, they decided to see if they could go back to their roots and license the Cruis'n name from Nintendo, which had become sole owner of the trademarks after Midway shut down. Nintendo was willing to play along, and Cruis'n Blast is the result. (And a blast it is!). However, not forgetting that F&F basically made the company 20 years ago, and because the movies are still popular, they went and got a new license to make their new game, F&F Arcade. Of course, the movies have long moved away from being really about street racing with a side of petty crime and become action spy thrillers with cars used as weapons, and the new game sorta reflects that with a mission-based structure where the races aren't really about coming in first but about beating the goal time to complete the mission. As such, it's not really another Cruis'n game with just the F&F name stamped on it, but it clearly shares DNA with the Cruis'n series.

I played super bikes 3 at a chuck e cheese not too long ago and that makes so much sense now!! The whole time I was l thinking "why does this game feel so familiar " haha

those good times when you get a free play everytime when you get 1st place in super bikes 1 and 2

Long of order but only the first Super Bikes had the F&F name on it. And the tracks from that were reused in the second updated version of the first F&F arcade, subtitled SuperCars, appropriately enough.

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Cruisn world is still the best

Very True!!

Yeah, I kept waiting for it in the video...never happened.

@@antiquecardboard he should have check it out before making the video

It is a bummer. They could have easily shoved in some paid DLC levels and vehicles but I think things were starting to open back up after some time in the pandemic and Raw Thrills redirected their focus back to coin op arcades. I know Eugene mentioned the immense cost of porting to the switch, but surely I think it did halfway decent and was overall well received for an arcade style racer.

Yeah Rush 2049!!

@@Kapojos N64 version with Expansion Pak!

There was also California speed too

honestly I just played through cruisn world on retroarch with a wheel and it felt pretty good. Maybe try the n64 port of exotica with a wheel. Throw a crt filter on there and you're good haha

All of them lose something in the console versions because they really were designed as sit-down arcade games and the play style and feel just work best in that environment. That said, the Switch version of Cruis'n Blast really is the best home port of the whole series.

is correct

I always felt like California Speed was a mix between Cruis’n and Rush. Tight steering and visuals closer to Rush, with the physics and linear level design of Cruis’n.

Every song in World is FIRE

Best:World Worst:Exocita

haha, well I ranked that as well!

Nintendo always co-owned the IP before & eventually became the outright owners of it once Midway went under...but yeah, the series should get represented in Smash. At least give us that Cruis'n Blast theme song ffs! on a side note, Cruis'n isn't even the only Nintendo owned IP that hasn't had any representation in Smash...it's joined by StarTropics, Geist, Odama, Zekkyo Senshi Sakeburein, and many WiiWare, DSiWare & Eshop titles ( and that's just what I remember off the top of my head )

No sadly, I did not get the job. Ended up getting something with SIE a few weeks later though

Haven't played the arcade version so can't compare but I thought the n64 game was great,I can't understand why some people don't like it

@@ThePolicenaut nice! How this the game rank up with the other Cruis’n games on the n64? Is it better than Cruis’n World?

@Kapojos I think it's personal opinion on which one is best I think they are both equally as good. Either way if you enjoyed cruisn world I would say definitely get exotica

Fan of Exotica here, played almost my entire childhood. Exotica is not for everyone, i can tell you that. It's ugly, super-duper arcadey and sometimes cheap (the A.I. have a pretty fucked up rubberbanding). But, Exotica has personality, and it's tracks and vehicles are there to justify it's name. Well, those are the basics that make Exotica stand out in the trilogy, and it works. It's flawless? Not by a mile. But, it's fun. Although World is more refined and well known, Exotica is... Exotic. And I love that.

Cali is a cesspool now. LOL

It was ok but of course the arcade is better