Cruis'n USA (1994)

Midway Games

Arcade

3.05 from 374 ratings

701 members have it in their collection · 2 playing now · 54 backlogged · 34 wish listed

How long? Main story 1h (from 2 logged playthroughs)

Cruis'n USA is an arcade racing game originally released in 1994. It was developed by Midway Games and published and distributed by Nintendo. It is the first game in the Cruis'n series and features locations around the United States.
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Details

Developers
Midway Games
Publishers
Nintendo
Genres
Arcade, Racing
Series
Cruis'n
Event
Summer CES 1994

Release dates

  • Dec 1994 (Worldwide) Arcade

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Featured in lists

Nintendo 64 by KiingShady · 76 games · 0
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Rating distribution

5 stars
21
4 stars
74
3 stars
196
2 stars
68
1 star
15
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Community All Reviews Statuses

oiomar

Review oiomar 3/5 · Oct 8, 2021

Maybe don't play this

It's not great. It's repetitive. The graphics don't hold up either. And yet I love this game. That was my nostalgia talking again. I know, I need to shut it up. I played this game a lot when I was younger. N64 games were expensive, and I picked this up cheap at the bargain bin of a rental store.

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It's not great. It's repetitive. The graphics don't hold up either. And yet I love this game. That was my nostalgia talking again. I know, I need to shut it up. I played this game a lot when I was younger. N64 games were expensive, and I picked this up cheap at the bargain bin of a rental store.

The gameplay doesn't offer much and so I used to try and barge rivals off the road or into oncoming traffic, Burnout-style. You didn't need to though because you could win without doing much. And maybe that's the best thing about this game. You really don't have to do much. Just "Cruis".

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think the whole race thing was added for marketing purposes, because they thought no one would put quarters in an arcade machine just to drive across the USA while listening to some decent tunes. Well, certainly not most people anyway...

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