taking sides: DAYTONA USA vs SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

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11 and 10 years old this year, respectively! which of the classic sega arcade racers do YOU prefer?

― deaf leopard (haitch), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

sega rally's pace is a bit frenzied to really enjoy while you play it. (you can always tell someone's good at it because they float serenely around the track like they're not even trying, I never got a handle on how to do that.) daytona, on the other hand, is a much more considered pace, so you can actually think during a race, and consequently get in position to ease your best friend off into the wall on the final corner of the advanced circuit and fly past, cackling. is there a better feeling?

― deaf leopard (haitch), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

You've just put into words exactly what I like about Daytona over Sega Rally. Both games I find insanely hard though - I don't know how anyone could get good at them.

Also, on Sega Rally, does your co-driver (?) who shouts "medium left" "hairpin!" sometimes say "hard right, maybe"? If he doesn't, I have no idea what he's saying. Surely he should know how tough the curve is from the previous lap!

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

The top of this thread would look ace if the image code had worked! Is it possible a kind mod could fix it, just to put my overly-anal mind at rest?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

sega rally, i love that game so much. I really love how it is only a few incredibly designed tracks, two cars (+ the secret Stratos) and was all about spending hours to shave 1/100th of a second off yr time. I came 5th in a competition for it once through a sega saturn magazine. Oh and i'm almost certain that the co-driver does indeed say maybe. good times.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Waaay look at it! It's like having an arcade on ILX.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I reckon the co-driver's "maybe" call is there to leave the speed to your discretion - it's a hard right, but you absolutely nail the corner and you can get through there a bit quicker than suggested. maybe.

― deaf leopard (haitch), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, quite possibly! I'm not actually good enough at Sega Rally to make it around any corners at any speed. Perhaps I might have a bit of a practise tonight if I finish Ico.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

sega rally is a great racer, one of the few I've genuinely enjoyed; played the original cabinet again recently vs. my girlfriend and had as much fun as ever slamming the brakes

I saw a copy languishing for 99p the other day in gamestation; I'd love one of the cabinets in my house

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i was the tits at sega rally on the saturn, i thought this game pissed all over playstations ridge racer incidentally.

i still have mine set up in my bedroom, the sequel on dreamcast sucked ass.

i hated daytona it was like driving boxes around on railway tracks.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgi5b0TZ46U

― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 25 October 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Btw, both these games are now as close to perfectly emulated as you can probably get via ElSemi's Model 2 Emulator (including wheel and force feedback support).

― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 25 October 2009 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link

my Saturn has died :(

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Sunday, 25 October 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link

SSF is a pretty good Saturn emulator, but the arcade versions are so much better anyway

― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 26 October 2009 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

What Daytona USA has: ROOOOLLING STAAAAAAAAAAAAART!!!

― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link

my saturn lives again! and Rally is soooperb

― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link

'Please select a racecourse'

'Advanced!'

'Please select manual or automatic transmission'

'Manual!'

'Gentlemen, start your engines'

― The Jolly Roget's Thesaurus (S-), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link

'okay. You're going to see your lap one more tiiime. Cooool breeeze. birds and clouds'

― F-Unit (Ste), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link

fuck a daytona

― dayo, Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link

I missed that game so much. My Dad was gonna get us a Playstation for the holidays but we asked for a Saturn instead because it came with 3 free games. For some reason I could never get enough of Daytoooooonaaaaaaaa!! Let's go away!! ROLLLLIING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― frogbs, Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link

write in: cruisin' usa

― goole, Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

god damn!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZk-Ar6a6w

― frogbs, Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

this might be my new favorite video on Youtube, dude seems like the most likeable guy on the planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWnzfA9AqrA

― frogbs, Monday, 11 September 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link

six years pass...

this made me laugh so hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03u0yn04CQ

― frogbs, Saturday, 2 December 2023 04:09 (four months ago) link

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