Daytona USA - Is it worth buying?

I have 3 daytona 2's, basically the same concept here, but yeah the daytona series is in my opinion the racer to get if you want one or two or three etc for the home.

Still would love to find a stand up or two of the original.
 
Only get it if you can get a pair.. if your a stock car fan, it's good. If you like drift racing, grab initial d. If you want realistic, get f355 challenge. I like rush 2049 but rush the rock is also cool.

One thing to consider is Daytona is abou 600lbs a side and does not break down easily. So you need a pretty much straight in the garage location for it.
 
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One thing to consider is Daytona is abou 600lbs a side and does not break down easily. So you need a pretty much straight in the garage location for it.

I just recently had to move a set of Daytona's for a guy when I picked up my Cruis'n World and even with my trailer it was awful. Next time I'm taking my 28ft box truck with a lift gate.
 
They made a 'special edition' two years later that's not quite as bad, it's in a wood cabinet more like the Cruisn' games, and the seat comes off.
 
I dunno.....I wish I could go back to the very night I first seen Daytona USA at the Seaside Heights Boardwalk. It had the longest lines and wait time to play than any other arcade game that I can remember. What made the night great is that me and my friend where staying at his grandmothers house just a couple miles from the boardwalk and we weren't allowed to go by ourselves (his grandma was worried about gangs or something, heh) but we snuck out and rode our bicycles there anyway, lol. The lines and wait time where so long for Daytona (it must have just gotten released) that I don't think I even played it and if I did it was only once. I wound up mainly playing some higher end deluxe version of Virtua Racing with the seats that had like these air bags that blow up when you go around corners to simulate G forces, lol.

In the next year or two my local truck stop got a two player Daytona and me and a bunch of friends would go play it nearly everyday. Next came RUSH and that was pretty much the end of the arcade gaming days for me. When the local mall arcade was going out of business and where selling off all their games, Daytona was the very first arcade game that I considered owning at home because I thought the game was so awesome. But the price it was marked at was $15,000 I shit you not! So that pretty much squashed the idea of ever owning a arcade game at home until 2014 when I went and got my childhood grail because I just had to see it in the flesh again at all costs, lol. ;)
 
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Daytona is a great game. Dave and Buster still have 6 of the deluxe linked. They must spend alot of money maintaining them. I don't see the boards on ebay that often. I would like a set so I can get better at it.
 
They made a 'special edition' two years later that's not quite as bad, it's in a wood cabinet more like the Cruisn' games, and the seat comes off.

Yeah, I moved one and it's heavy too but at least it comes apart. But it's not an easy find. But if you find two, get them. The graphics are a little dated, but it's better it's popular.
 
My concern with any big heavy game would be selling it if I get tired of it.

I dont care how great a game is at some point you will probably want to sell it.

I have seen a ton of drivers and other big cabs sit forever unsold or basically end up being given away because noone wanted to deal with moving them and or nobody has that kind of space.
 
I wish I had the space for one sit down, let alone a linked one. High on my want list, not existent on my space to place list.
 
Here in Holland, Daytona USA is known for being a good arcade-racer, but also unreliable as the pcb's are prone to failure which are hard to fix and/or expensive to buy.
 
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