California Speed (video game)
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Developer(s) | Atari Games |
Publisher(s) | Midway Games |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Nintendo 64 |
Release date(s) | Arcade
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Genre(s) | Racing |
Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
Distribution | 128 Megabit cartridge |
California Speed is a racing video game developed and published by Atari Games.[1] The game was first released in arcades (Midway Seattle Arcade System) in 1998 and was ported to the Nintendo 64 in 1999 by Midway Games. This game contains support for the Controller Pak and the Rumble Pak also the full support for multiplayer mode.
Gameplay
California Speed is similar to games like Cruis'n USA and San Francisco Rush. Players drive through the streets of California with exotic jumps and crazy tracks. You travel the streets with eight different racers on the track trying to take the lead. Sometimes on the road you encounter traffic you must avoid and hills to jump. Players get to choose a lineup of generic cars to race with either the Automatic or Manual transmission. There are fourteen different tracks with three different difficulties from Easy to Hard.
Tracks
Here are the featured stages :
- Monterey
- Silicon Valley
- Highway 1
- Central Valley
- Los Angeles
- Santa Cruz
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Mount Shasta
- Yosemite
- Mojave Desert
These are the unlockable stages (N64 Only):
The arcade original does not feature the unlockable cars. Also, the arcade version adds 3 more stages with those above (excluding the unlockable stages), all in total of 14 stages, they are:
- Laguna Seca Raceway
- Willow Springs Raceway
- Sears Point Raceway
Cars
- BMW Z3
- Chevrolet Silverado
- Chevrolet Camaro
- Mano - Racecar
- 486SE - Ferrari 512 TR
- Sled - Mercury Monterey
- Lotus Seven
- Cadillac Eldorado
- Honda Civic
- Dodge Colt
- Interceptor (Arcade)
- SUV (Arcade)
- Forklift
- Mack Superliner
- Plymouth Prowler
- Volkswagen Beetle
- RV
- Golf cart
References
- ↑ "California Speed". The International Arcade Museum. Retrieved 9 Nov 2013.