The soundtrack was one of the most energetic sets of music to grace a video game and is still fun to listen to.

The bright graphics held many subtleties that frequent players came to appreciate but most of all they conveyed a true sense of speed. The physics model combined with the powerful and detail-oriented force feedback system made it feel like the player was truly in the race.

That game was the now legendary Daytona USA.ĭaytona USA was not the first 3D racing game to ever be made but very few games matched the earnings potential that it brought to the 1990s arcade scene. Designed to generate 3D texture mapped graphics in real-time and at high speeds, Model 2 was the perfect platform to feature a cutting edge racing game with. One of those efforts came to fruition in the form of their “Model 2” hardware. (Japanese twin model pictured, click on the thumbnail below the main image for the US Twin model)īack in 1994, Sega was pushing the envelope of what could be done with 3D graphics.

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