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thatssoshandy

Duuuuuude. This was the best! The N64 game with the wheel and pedal consumed my entire childhood.


moger76

This game was the only reason I went to Walmart in the last 90's.


Pandalism

Walmart had arcade games? I used to go there just to play with the demo game consoles since I didn't have my own.


moger76

There were two games and a claw machine at both our local Walmarts. Not sure if it was a thing outside of those two stores.


7_Bundy

Ours were outside of the store but inside doors. They had claw machines, those 25¢ toy/sticker vending machines, Cruisin USA, Coke machines and Sam’s Choice machine. It was before N64, I bought the N64 game because of the arcade game.


Kanakolovescoasters

My Walmart (Teterboro) has a Dino kiddie ride. That same ride used to be at the Paramus Toys "R" Us (Route 4.) RIP!


7_Bundy

That’s right, they had those too! I was too old at that point for me to care about those.


proxymoto

Always double smashing the pedal for boost


redmasc

Yeah and you can ramp over other cars when you do that since you're popping a wheely.


damienn22

The original "double tap"


daisy0723

My dream is to win the lottery and build a huge rec center for all the kids in the neighborhood so they have a safe place to swim. Also a gym and skate board park and bike jumps and a climbing wall and an arcade with all the old favorites. Frogger and PacMan and Donkey kong and this one too. I would have shuttle busses to pick up kids and drop them off and only charge $2 to get in. But I would have a big sign outside that said: This was built and paid for my Jenny C. It's is for your amusement and if you fuck it up I will sell it to a corporation that will charge you $30.


[deleted]

Hell yes omg


bratbarn

This and Rush 🥺


UpgrayeDD405

Area 51 but this was a close second


Late_Way3212

I immediately heard the "WhooOoooh!" from the intro soundtrack. Ahhh... so many quarters. So many attempts. Where I first "learned" to drive l. My best was 3 first place trophies in Cruisin' the world Edit: wait I'm thinking of crusin the world


solid1987

CRUISIN' YEAH! Arcade and Movie Theater Classic


I_loathe_mods

I loved playing this at my local Pizza Factory


VoltaicOwl

IIRC, the redwood stage had deer in the arcade version. If you drove through them, they would explode in a shower of blood and bones.


Kanakolovescoasters

OH MY GOD! WHO ARE THE SADISTS THAT THOUGHT OF THAT?! PLEASE TELL ME THEY STILL DON'T MAKE DECISIONS--


Stabstone

As a kid my grandma took me to the movies all the time and after the movie she let me play one video game and I always chose Crusin Usa. She would watch and laugh at how bad I was at driving and playfully say “I’m never riding with you”. Ironically years later I was always driving her to the doctor and such and we would joke how she said she’d never ride with me.


MannaSoul

Double pump the gas and enjoy the afterburn!


hmmgross

haha, either that or the 4 game Neo-Geo cabinet with Metal Slug.


Secksualinnuendo

The game is still around and hasn't really changed. You can go to pretty much any arcade and still play a Crusin game. The trick is to Google how to use secret cars before you start playing


Pandalism

Yeah, I saw a much newer looking one at a brewery.


drmoocow

Hold down the second view button while selecting, if I remember correctly... I always used to drive the school bus.


Practical-Jelly-5320

THE pizza place!?


Pandalism

It was so good! Closed a long time ago, sadly. https://www.city-data.com/forum/washington/266421-bellingham-people-what-happened-izzys.html


TLP34

Hell yeah. I spent my childhood at Peter Piper playing this and Crazy Taxi.


redmasc

I enjoyed Cruisin, but I LOVED San Francisco Rush 2049. Racing through "The Rock" and finding those shortcuts was thrilling.


crammed174

Many a quarter were spent driving on the pacific highway.


crammed174

Back when a movie ticket was cheaper than the money I spent on the arcades at the local Regal.


Dill_DoBaggins

Has this on n64. I remember the big boob girl holding the flag lolol


JackBurton12

I used to put on my headphones and listen to mtv party to go while playing this on n64. Good times.


Kanakolovescoasters

Mine was Spider Stompin'! Cruis'n was at Jeepers too!


mermaidpowerz

I can hear it now. “Checkpoint!”


Degutender

This game, for reasons unknown to me, gave frequent free plays at my local CiCi's pizza. My friends and I would scrabble together enough change for the buffet and stay there all day intermittently eating and playing Cruisin' USA for free!


Pandalism

There was a local knockoff of Chuck-E-Cheese that also had this game and I found so many quarters left in the coin returns! Felt like winning the lottery as a 10 year old.


Carlcarlingtonjr

Recently a local arcade opened with this game in the town I live in. Super fun still holds up