25 Years of Daytona USA - The Game, The Legacy, The Complete History
1,1742021 UPDATE: YouTube's processing completely destroyed the visual quality of the original 1080p version of this video so I've made a new and improved '25 Year of Daytona USA' in 4K, with LOTS of new content and vastly Improved picture quality over the old 1080p upload, with raw footage re-recorded from scratch! Check it out here: https://youtu.be/IwDc7ao2KmA
Welp, here we are ladies and gentlemen, my largest, longest retrospective look back at a game series so far: The Complete History of Daytona USA - The Game, The Legacy. Part documentary, part retrospective on my personal experiences with the game, all awesome arcade racer fun (well, I hope you think so...). As this has turned into such a big project I've divided the video up into chapters, which you can jump to the specific time of if you don't do the whole video in one sitting.
1. 00:00 - Intro
2. 01:13 - Daytona USA in the Arcade
3. 13:36 - Original Saturn and PC Windows 95 version
4. 20:05 - Championship Circuit Edition (Saturn)
5. 25:11 - Daytona USA Deluxe (PC)
6. 31:32 - Daytona USA CCE Netlink Edition and Circuit Edition (Jpn) on Saturn
7. 33:23 - Daytona USA Deluxe Special Edition (PC)
8. 35:07 - Daytona USA 2001 (Dreamcast)
9. 48:14 - Model 2 Emulator
10. 59:41 - PS3 and Xbox 360 ports (and brief discussion on Sega Racing Classics in arcade)
11. 01:06:52 - Daytona USA 2 - Battle on the Edge and Power Edition (inc. Supermodel3 emulator)
12. 01:19:44 - Daytona Championship USA
13. 01:35:06 - Daytona USA Legacy
It's funny, as when I first started this project, I thought this would be relatively straightforward compared to my previous look backs at Outrun and After Burner as Daytona USA has had less home ports and sequels. How wrong I turned out to be....
This really turned into a labour of love towards the end, as I kept thinking of new information I wanted to add in, new footage I wanted to use to replace old stuff I'd used, parts of the voice track I wanted change et cetara. This kept requiring me to re-render and then review the video, which took hours out of my life.
On a personal note, this project also happened over a very sad time in my life, as not long after I started it my Mum died. It wasn't unexpected, she'd been ill for sometime so it wasn't a complete surprise, but I mentally found it very difficult trying to get back into this a month or two afterwards, as I'm sure you can appreciate.
Anyway, I'm not mentioning this to elicit any sympathy, but really just to illustrate the mental head space i was in when I was making this. Unfortunately, in the final render it sounds to my ear like a few bits of the voice track, in a couple of the early parts of the video, have suffered from a bit of audio compression. Sadly, there wasn't anything I could do about about this by the time I'd noticed, as these bits had already been rendered in such a way that the voice, music and video were all inseparable and I wasn't going to fucking record them all over again. I don't think it's SUPER noticeable, but there you go.
One thing I forgot to add in was about the rumoured unreleased 32X version of Daytona USA. A few Sega Mags back in the day had mentioned that the 32X would get a Daytona port, but I don't think there were ever any screenshots or anything like that to back this up, just early pictures of the Saturn version. There was also an LCD handheld version made by Tiger, but much like the handheld versions of Outrun and After Burner, the game was a very simplistic looking piece of crap.
Links to the full versions of parts of the videos I used that weren't stuff I recorded myself:
Daytona USA (Arcade) - Secret Aerial View
Sixfortyfive
https://youtu.be/CXxIBildOwU
Daytona USA (SEGA-AM2) (Windows) [1996]
La Mazmorra Abandon
https://youtu.be/TNdGfrnQLVA
Daytona USA CCE NetLink Edition (Sega Saturn) Local Link Play
NoBit
https://youtu.be/V33L1NRRpmk
IAAPA 2009 - Sega Racing Classic (Daytona USA remake)
Arcade Heroes
https://youtu.be/PAN1IVXSsk4
PS3 DAYTONA USA オンライン対戦12
PoChi86427
https://youtu.be/IT5zmCGNp1Q
Ridge Racer Vita footage
https://www.gamereactor.eu/grtv/38641/Ridge+Racer+Vita+Daytona+USAs+Hornet+Car+Trailer/
90s arcade racer gameplay video 3
pelikan13x
https://youtu.be/auuYtx8627A
90s Arcade Racer 60fps Wii U gameplay
pelikan13x
https://youtu.be/RpjHlBvTCck
first 90s Arcade Racer gameplay
pelikan13x
https://youtu.be/M3PlyYWhhZE
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