Sega are releasing Daytona USA 3!

Gonna have to see if there is still a GameWorks near me

 

Daytona USA was a very accessible game and seemed simple at the outset, but mastering the art of gear drifting took skill and then applying that to truly master the expert course took a lot of skill. I gotta disagree with the comments about Daytona USA 2 though, I think it plays well and looks great. The Biodome area in the Beginner level of Battle on the Edge (which got changed to a generic NASCAR type track in Power Edition) and the amusement park level on the advanced stage are great examples of Sega doing things that were a bit more 'out there' in one of their arcade racers, which made it look very visually striking and I think give it heaps of charm. Although we take graphics like that for granted these days, back in 1998 this was leaps and bounds over what most other arcade games could handle visually. I've still got Daytona USA 2001 on the Dreamcast and back in the day I never rated it much because the handling always felt a bit off (well, a lot off) using a joypad. I've developed a bit of a new found appreciation for it though since being able to play it using DEMUL on my PC using my DFGT racing wheel, it actually feels really close to the arcade this way.

 

Gear drifting really did take skill actually, regular brake+accel not really. I got my ass handed to me by a 45-50 year old Japanese guy at an arcade. He had his child on his lap and still gear drifting. Honestly he was the only guy that beat me at the arcade I used to go to in my teens.

All this talk about it is making me want to find a machine and play it.

 

You'll definitely see these machines outside of Japan, if only in Australia. In *every* arcade there you'll still find either an original or Sega Racing Classic, along with some variant of Big Buck Hunter. Operators and Sega both know it's still a major coin drop, so I'm sure it'll be a great success.

 

Why do Australians like Daytona so much? I can confirm that it's in every Cinema and arcade in Australia, maybe we just never got newer games.

 

Maybe Aussie arcade vendors have just got really good taste in games ? I'm hoping we'll see it crop up in a fair few places over here in the UK. Whilst arcades on the whole are in decline, most of the big bowling places you get next to cinemas complexes still get new 'big' arcade games in. There's one not far from me that's got a Star Wars Battlepod and a load other new-ish games.

 

Hello, are you a native english speaker ? (no offence).

I am French and few monthes back, I was missunderstanding the "Actual" word, which sounds like "Actuel" in French, but is totally different.

Anyway, I have always been looking for a daytona arcade cabinet. I have found one recently but it is a huge system, so I didn't bought it

A new Daytona is a great thing !

 

I am, and no offence taken. The reason for phrasing it like that was because I was questioning why the first person to reply to this thread felt the need to add a link to somewhere else, with the implication in his wording being that the link I had provided to my own video (reporting the exact same news about all that's know about the game so far) was not a 'proper' one.

 

Ok, I get it

I have failed to an important English exam years ago because of "Actual" haha. "Actuel" in France means "Current" which isn't what "Actual" means.

Anyway, always glad to see new arcade cabinets ! Sadly, place where you can play arcade games are not really present in France.

 

I don't think you've got anything to worry about mate, your English sounds très bon to me

 

Haha Thanks

 

I still think the original Daytona USA is the arcade multiplayer perfection. No other game comes close to it. Used to play it during my teenage years and even during college. Me and my friends played it everytime we had the chance to. It always felt like a great time. To me, the game is an racing game icon that should be praised, just like what Street Fighter 2 did to fighting games.

The reason people still see the original game on the arcades is because it's a big money maker. And that is because the game is simple enough that anyone can play, the rubberband keeps races close and the graphics are good to this day.

System16.com quote is pretty much spot on: "The first game to come out on this hardware (Model 2), worth mentioning above and beyond anything else due to the fact that it is the number one grossing game of all time. I have no figures to quote but I do know that in the UK alone it made close to twice the figures the second best selling game did (that honor goes to Time Crisis 2). Daytona also caused and still causes a problem in the arcade industry, Sega had come up with such a "killer app" that no other game from them or any other company since has matched it in terms of profitability, leading to the phrase heard from most site operators, "It's no Daytona".

As for Daytona USA 2, GameWorks Rio used to have a 8 player DX set, but the game never felt "right" for me and my friends. It's a great game, and while the graphics were simply insane back in the day i always felt the style was a bit exaggerated. Maybe it's because the original was simpler, i don't know. Also, i think the driving mechanics aren't as good as the original. We still played it a lot though. Same with Sega Super GT.

Anyway, hope that with this Daytona USA 3 announcement, Sega is finally able to re-release Daytona USA and Daytona USA 2 for current gen systems and also on Steam.

 

Daytona USA Trilogy + Spinoffs on PS4 and PC (No Xbone, doesnt deserve it) would be a dream come true.

 

I doubt this Daytona 3 will be available anytime soon for home systems / PC... Arcade operators wouldn't be happy to spend a big chunk of money for an arcade cabinet only to see it being released at the same time for 300 console.

Expect at least 3 to 4 years before it getting ported.

 

As cool and nostalgic as it is, its bullshit that its arcade only let alone starts there. Theres barely any left jn the world!

 

They should just release a board that plugs into the original machine, you can't improve perfection.

 

accidental double post.

 

Great news! Hopefully it will be eventually ported to Xbone/PS4.

 

It's business. They'll loose money otherwise, they think. That's why Border Break and other modern arcade exclusives are not gonna be ported.

 

Laaaame. That game is like nearly 7 years old, they wont be earning much if any money from it anytime soon so why not port it?