We ought to be able to pinpoint the precise instant when we started playing Daytona USA, but we are unable to do so. Our recollection is cloudy and inaccurate, which results in the delivery of conflicting messages to us. It was most likely in Blackpool, in the nook of a seedy arcade, with stained carpet from the 1970s beneath our feet. Or was it at home, in the chilly confines of our game room, with the warm glow of a 14-inch portable television lighting up the room?
Daytona USA is a realistic reproduction of the popular arcade game, and it has been remastered for the PlayStation Network so that it supports wide-screen displays and can be played online. It is an almost perfect port; the cars still handle in the same brutal style, with those two back wheels jutting out of the rear like a beautifully carved octagonal Polo, and the final course remains impossible to complete unless you have studied for a university degree in arcade racing games.
