![]() ![]() As a result, I can achieve first position on every course now. “I’d play off all the credits with friends after hours. So on Sundays, Starkey found himself with a whole arcade to choose from, and a day’s worth of change that he absolutely had to put through one machine. ![]() “My boss would tell me to put all that change into an arcade machine on Sunday because I wasn’t in on Mondays, so he could open the cabinet and re-use it all.” “In 1995 I worked in an arcade that had no change machine, so I would carry pound coins in a bum-bag,” he says. He installed Daytona USA at his arcade (where game credits are free after visitors pay for entry) partly because he makes a living from popular cabinets, but partly because, for all the arcade games he’s worked with, Daytona USA has special meaning to him. Mark Starkey, the owner of Heart of Gaming, is a long-time employee in the arcade industry. It’s frenetic close-quarters stuff, with frequent hair-raising crashes and tyre-scorching escapes. You select from three circuits, start at the back of the pack, then zoom through up to 40 other vehicles, attempting to finish the race before the timer runs out. The set-up is familiar to anyone who’s ever popped a coin in an arcade machine with a steering wheel welded to the front. Then your life will be complete.Still chugging along in arcades the length and breadth of the land. And once you get hooked, ask more people to play with you. ![]() Yes, up to 7 persons can play with you at the same time! It's best feature is the eight-linked player game. The best part of Daytona USA isn't how it looks or sounds. Race through three beautiful circuits and race to get first! It's not an easy way to the top! Get behind the wheel of a Daytona car - the Hornet if you play alone or any of the special cars if you're lucky enough to get people to play with you. Groundbreaking when it first came out, it's popularity and reputation grew incredibly and it still is one of SEGA's most beloved titles today. ![]() One of the best arcade games to ever exist and without a doubt the most fun in the racing genre, only rivaled by it's successor, OutRun and Hydro Thunder Hurricane. If you grew up in the nineties, you can't NOT have played this game. "DU DU DU DU DU DU DURUUUU!! DAYTOOOOOOOOONNNNAAAAAAA! LET'S GO AWAY!" ![]()
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