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Pinch me, I must be dreaming. Sega just teased a new Daytona USA, with Sega Amusements - the UK-based arcade division - posting a short video that announced the game's appearance at a trade show in a couple of weeks. It's an announcement from leftfield, to say the least. Sega Amusements typically plies its trade in redemption machines, and with considerable success. I caught up with them a couple of years ago and found a company that was keeping the company values alive, even if its games were far removed from those typically associated with Sega's 90s arcade heyday.
Daytona USA's last big release was the HD remake that came to consoles in 2011. I should have given it a 10/10 back in the days when we still used to put numbers on the end of reviews. Just prior to that release, Daytona USA did make an arcade appearance with Sega Racing Classic in 2009 - a cabinet that took the 1994 classic and gave it an HD makeover, while losing references to the motor speedway as Sega had presumably lost the license at the time. The short-lived Sega Racing Studio was also at one time working on a Daytona sequel before it was closed down.
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