The Cruis’n series of driving games that debuted in the 1990s and Nintendo 64 have launched Cruis’n USA.
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An iconic dedicated video game from 1994 is to make a dramatic comeback. Cruis’n USA was a hit game for developer Eugene Jarvis and machine manufacturer Midway Games and went on to spawn a series, with Cruis’n World and Cruis’n Exotica and was a hit game for Nintendo on its Ultra 64 hardware.
Jarvis went on to found Raw Thrills, the current US manufacturer of arcade video games and has had a series of hits over the past few years. Jarvis came close to repeating the essences of Cruis’n with his hit came The Fast and the Furious, which was actually based on a movie.
The new game cannot hope to match the overall sales of the original series, which topped 70,000 units, but Jarvis – still at the helm of Raw Thrills – believes that the time is ripe to bring it back as Cruis’n Blast. “With the resurging millennial arcade scene and unprecedented player demand, the time is right for a new Cruis’n game.”
The technology is obviously considerably advanced on the game launched 22 years ago. Now Cruis’n Blast as a 43-inch monitor and modern sound effects, but it keeps to the original theme of racing around global locations, in this case Madagascar, Singapore and London among others. The game will hit the streets in January 2017 but will certainly feature strongly at the IAAPA trade show in Orlando next month.
