It's that part which made me think "Wait, did I actually play this in a store's demo unit back in the day?" I didn't get a N64 until May 2003, after its heyday (but not the used market heyday when it was still cheap,) and I never got a copy of Cruis'n USA (or Cruis'n World) from 2003 - 2010. If I did play either one, it was maybe just once.
Golden Gate Park 0:50 San Francisco 3:18 US 101 5:31 Redwood Forest 7:54 Beverly Hills 10:13 LA Freeway 12:43 Death Valley 15:12 Arizona 17:36 Grand Canyon 19:46 [About 1,200 miles of missing USA] Iowa 22:26 Chicago 24:55 Indiana 27:23 Appalachia 29:44 Washington DC 32:01
Crazy thing, my brother has our 64 and still works to this day. All the games work, especially this one. The days when they made things to last and you didn’t have to do “updates” to the games. It’s always fun to play and feel like a kid again!
Cartridges are amazingly resilient. Usually you can get them working by cleaning the contacts with a q-tip soaked in isopropyl alcohol. Not just N64, but MSX and Sega Genesis. P.S. I don't recommend using an eraser to clean contacts since that would remove a layer from them.
Yeah, it didn't do the game any favors that half of the races were in California; especially since it felt like they added courses that could've been included into some of the others. For instance, the Golden Gate Park could've been a part of the San Francisco course. Los Angeles had two courses with Beverly Hills and LA Freeway. Arizona could've had the Grand Canyon a part of it, and they could've made a separate race for the Dakotas since they wanted to put Mt. Rushmore in the game. They wanted to put the Gateway Arch in the game, but no St. Louis course. They also went from Indiana straight into PA with Appalachia skipping over Ohio. And yeah, they put New York, Florida, and Hawaii in Cruis'n World, and Alaska and Las Vegas were in Cruis'n Exotica, but there were still some missed opportunities at races to include in this game.
Damn I remember this game all too well. My dad got this when we had a 64. I don’t know why I sold all my old game consoles. I guess I never knew how badly I’d want to play them as I got older 😢
@@AkosiPolly facts bro I still got my 64 and games that still play to this day I might get Ocarina of Time and I got my Nintendo wii f*** that I'm going to buy some racing car games now 🤔😎💯
Awwwww the memories, they actually had this game in a supermarket I went to with my dad as a kid, right in the entrance on the store the racing wheel and all and then one day he surprised me with the game on the n64!! Goood times man
Such great memories, total nostalgia. Graphics & frame rate don't look as good as I remember when I was a kid when they seemed ridiculously good at the time, lmao. The songs were good too. I also remember 12 year old me had a total crush on the trophy girl in the purple skirt.
This reminds me of when I bought my Nintendo 64 from a friend for only $40 during the late summer of 1999. This was one of the four games that came with it (the other three were Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Mission: Impossible, and Blast Corps). This was/is one of my favorite racing games of all time! Watching this made me feel nostalgic.
I remember playing the crap out of this when I was a kid. The only thing I hated was that they didn't have the Washington DC course as a stand alone course you could race on. The only way to race on it was to do the "Cruise the USA" mode.
+oscarzx n Maybe because it got forgotten by time. It was a very impressive game for it's time, 1994, but when other racing games came along, this one looked extremely primitive compared to them.
Never seen this video before. First thing that came into my mind, "ooh ahh ooh ahh." and so I scrolled down to write a comment. Then I saw this was already taken care of.
I don't know what's more annoying when you're in 1st place position; crashing into cars going the wrong fricking way, or getting hit with a blue paratroopa shell.
I just feel like crying thinking about this game, ah great memories as I say this was one of my very 1st games along with banjo and 007.. I love this game
i looked forever for this game again, i haven't thought about the music and graphics for 19 years. Its nostalgia but a weird unknown nostalgia about something i thought i forgot
on the grand canyon race you travel like over 1,000 miles from arizona up to south dakota! really doesn't make sense! on the map route they could have thrown in a couple more races in between , i see they went through new mexico and colorado but where were they?
Half the game is spent in CA. It's like the devs were only familiar with that state. Also, given the weird order / physicality of stages in CA, it's disappointing that they couldn't hook North to have a NYC stage before driving South to Washington DC.
CaptainAtomSmasher No, they're just wimps who are afraid of letting players play a racing game that allows you to run over animals because it could cause a lawsuit.
Man as soon as the first race began and that soundtrack started it all started coming back. Edit: Redwood Forest had the best track on the whole game, and you cant tell me differently.
Redwood forest that's uhh living hell racing in the forest to the finish line my 2 uncles and aunt and me hated that level back in the days when I was a little kid playing this game
This shit IMMEDIATELY transports me back to 8th grade summer, spending the night at my best friend's house eating 2 lbs bags of Swedish fish and cheesesteaks and soda. We'd turn the TV down and blast burnt CDs of Bone Thugs N Harmony, Biggie, Tupac, this new guy that came out called DMX, or whatever mix tape was out at the time. Then at some point it'd turn into NBA Hangtime. Then sometimes just sit and talk about girls while my friend aimlessly explored in Ocarina of Time. Some of the deepest teenage thoughts of what would happen "if we ever made it in rap" transpired on a cross country cruise through the USA. Just me and my friend with his grey controller, and my atomic purple one. I never cease to fear before time.
After many many years of this game that was deeply buried in the back of my nostalgia kid brain… i found it. All i had as the base of remembrance for this game was the Redwood Forest level annnd sure enough… here it is! I cant believe i found it! Leave it to Cruisin’ to help me.. considering i have Cruisin Blast on the Nintendo Switch 😂 omfg thank you! Even tho this is 7 yrs already, its new to me and boy am i glad i can now cross this game off my nostalgia list. Thank you and happy 2023 to you and everyone else!
One story: While starting sequence the cars I let drove and I stand still while when the other cars were on the run, I began to drove and that with higher speed (is genius from the producers, that cars at last get higher speed until they reached first one and or so and so on) and overtook all and in the best case without accident and without accident to the end. But sometimes, yes, crash was. And what is nice in rembebering, the squashed flys on the windshild from the car in the one setting to look outside the windshild.
Yo jugaba con el que era mi mejor amigo que ya murió solamente a chocar con otros coches ,los que parecían un Suzuki Jimni eran los que más volaban ,de eso hace más de 20 años y lo recuerdo como si fuera ayer ,cuanta nostalgia.
Ahh, yes the classic 70's porno soundtrack to this game...unreal, nostalgia hitting hard. I remember back in the mid-90's, thinking these graphics were basically as good as it could ever possibly get
I still don't know what's being said right after the race when the map comes up... I always thought I heard "Damnit!" as a kid and didn't understand why
With one player it ran this way. Also, this game isnt exactly running 60 fps locked, it dips a great many times in various instances. Back to your point, 2 or 4 player (cant recall if 4 player was avail on 64 with original) was super choppy, easily reduced to 30fps and frequent disp below that much like all 4player n64 games, dukey nukem, dkong racing, mkart, golden eye, dukey nukem zero hour etc. 😉
![Nintendo 64 Longplay [020] Cruis'n World](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/y2Fw2NzMFCE/mqdefault.jpg)
ah, the memories. Brings back childhood memories.
Same here
I couldn’t drive manual and always thought that the last gear would make me faster for some reason, god I wish I still had my old 64 games!
ohhhh! aaaaahhh!
Thumbs up if anyone came to hear the "Ooh! Ahh!" song for the second stage. XD
Necromorph_801 lol guilty
That song is nasty...
@@ACM1PTLOCO facts❗
As the game was new around the time of the Lewinsky scandal, my 10-year-old self used to call that the "White House Special"
Ooh ah ooh ah yeahhh lol
Designer: "Add spectators near finish line"
Programmer: say no more
Designer: Add a proper physics engine.
Marketing Intern: I'm on it.
It's that part which made me think "Wait, did I actually play this in a store's demo unit back in the day?"
I didn't get a N64 until May 2003, after its heyday (but not the used market heyday when it was still cheap,) and I never got a copy of Cruis'n USA (or Cruis'n World) from 2003 - 2010. If I did play either one, it was maybe just once.
The blue muscle car. Everyone’s nemesis.
I agree!
That's facts. I was a brown Corvette man myself.
I made that blue car my bitch in June of 95
Golden Gate Park 0:50
San Francisco 3:18
US 101 5:31
Redwood Forest 7:54
Beverly Hills 10:13
LA Freeway 12:43
Death Valley 15:12
Arizona 17:36
Grand Canyon 19:46
[About 1,200 miles of missing USA]
Iowa 22:26
Chicago 24:55
Indiana 27:23
Appalachia 29:44
Washington DC 32:01
😂 at the 1200 missing miles. Well I didn't know Mt. Rushmore was in Arizona and the St. Louis arch was in Iowa. 😅
Playing this in an arcade in the 90s was truly a special experience
This game is so awfully excellent. I put a lot of hours into this game.
So so good. When you were able to get the different colored vehicles. So gratifying
Makes us really appreciate the tech we have now lol.
@@i_am_gohan9232 facts lol
@@GAZAMAN93X GOD I hate that game, my parents bought me that bullshit as a kid and I couldn’t get Mario kart 64 yet lol 😂.
I put a lot of hours into your wife.
Crazy thing, my brother has our 64 and still works to this day. All the games work, especially this one. The days when they made things to last and you didn’t have to do “updates” to the games. It’s always fun to play and feel like a kid again!
Cartridges are amazingly resilient. Usually you can get them working by cleaning the contacts with a q-tip soaked in isopropyl alcohol. Not just N64, but MSX and Sega Genesis. P.S. I don't recommend using an eraser to clean contacts since that would remove a layer from them.
It's funny because they had a 64dd drive planned for it that stacked underneath the console. So they were wishing for it.
3:33" Check it out, San Francishhhhhfrco"
best racing soundtrack ever...they should remake this game
Top Gear 1, 2 and 3 send greetings
DAYTOOOONAAA
And have more races and stuff
This game was awful
@D&HProductions its one of the most notorious pieces of shit ever
This man knows how to play this game.
That flag girl accelerated my puberty.
😂😂😂😂😂
I remember trying to get out of the car and go in the houses lol
This game was awesome. I loved getting upgraded cars.
Cruisin' USA? More like Cruisin California.
Does it matter? It was a good game anyways.
Yeah, it didn't do the game any favors that half of the races were in California; especially since it felt like they added courses that could've been included into some of the others. For instance, the Golden Gate Park could've been a part of the San Francisco course. Los Angeles had two courses with Beverly Hills and LA Freeway. Arizona could've had the Grand Canyon a part of it, and they could've made a separate race for the Dakotas since they wanted to put Mt. Rushmore in the game. They wanted to put the Gateway Arch in the game, but no St. Louis course. They also went from Indiana straight into PA with Appalachia skipping over Ohio. And yeah, they put New York, Florida, and Hawaii in Cruis'n World, and Alaska and Las Vegas were in Cruis'n Exotica, but there were still some missed opportunities at races to include in this game.
there 4 places in California you go through, then you got 2 places in Arizona.
I don’t hear you complaining about Surfin USA. You know damn well The Beach Boys were only surfing in California.
Damn I remember this game all too well. My dad got this when we had a 64. I don’t know why I sold all my old game consoles. I guess I never knew how badly I’d want to play them as I got older 😢
You still can!
buy them back dude. the last year i got a n64 and a ps2(plays ps1 games) and its awesome !
buy them back before its too late ppl price gouge on this stuff
Same
@@AkosiPolly facts bro I still got my 64 and games that still play to this day I might get Ocarina of Time and I got my Nintendo wii f*** that I'm going to buy some racing car games now 🤔😎💯
Awwwww the memories, they actually had this game in a supermarket I went to with my dad as a kid, right in the entrance on the store the racing wheel and all and then one day he surprised me with the game on the n64!!
Goood times man
Delchamps?
@@megagamer1683 yes!
Sandestin?
Thus is the N64 version.
Man my uncles and aunt enjoy playing this game on Nintendo 64 in the early 2000's when I was a little kid those were good childhood memories
Wish the N64 continued till 2005 at least or longer along with the GameCube!
@@MarkFendy-sw7hn Believe it or not, the system was still in production until 2004. In some areas, the Nintendo 64 was being sold as of 2003.
I remember doing the cheat to unlock the police car and the school bus. Great times!
I remember clicking random buttons and it getting unlocked
Playing the arcade it's just a press of a button to get it lol
Me too
Brake, Brake, Gas :)
Such great memories, total nostalgia. Graphics & frame rate don't look as good as I remember when I was a kid when they seemed ridiculously good at the time, lmao. The songs were good too.
I also remember 12 year old me had a total crush on the trophy girl in the purple skirt.
This reminds me of when I bought my Nintendo 64 from a friend for only $40 during the late summer of 1999. This was one of the four games that came with it (the other three were Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Mission: Impossible, and Blast Corps). This was/is one of my favorite racing games of all time! Watching this made me feel nostalgic.
If you do Iowa in 1st person, flies and bird poop will start hitting your screen.
Or it might've been Indiana.
I think it’s both courses
That's fucking hilarious
Can't rememeber, did that happen on the n64 version? I know a lot was edited from arcade, like hitting animals and the trophy girl being in bikini
But I guess flies are innocent enough
@@nateynayyes it happened on the n64 version
Haven't seen this game in front of my eyes for decades, it's weird.
Me either
I remember seeing it in an arcade for the first time mind blown as a kid lol
I remember playing the crap out of this when I was a kid. The only thing I hated was that they didn't have the Washington DC course as a stand alone course you could race on. The only way to race on it was to do the "Cruise the USA" mode.
Yeah. I agree 100% That was a great level. Glad someone thought the same thing....
A underrated gem.
This game was super popular on the arcades, how is it underrated?.
+oscarzx n Maybe because it got forgotten by time. It was a very impressive game for it's time, 1994, but when other racing games came along, this one looked extremely primitive compared to them.
@@RaposaCadela Until we have a sequel to this game, Cruis'n Blast.
I remember playing this game with 14-15 years old on the arcades.........nostalgia is going to kill me :'(
Yeah i never had a n64, but i remembered this from the arcade. I only played it once a trip because it was a dollar instead of a quarter lol.
Now Diddy Kong Racing, Wave Race and Extreme G on N64 were racing games!
ooh ahh ooh ahh ooh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh
yeah!
Hell yeah
Ahh.....ahh...ahh....ahh...ahh...ahh.
Never seen this video before. First thing that came into my mind, "ooh ahh ooh ahh." and so I scrolled down to write a comment. Then I saw this was already taken care of.
😂😂😂 I'm in literal tears
Testarossa is no joke, but that Stingray was trying to hold its own.
Nostalgia e Saudades desse época! Adorava esse jogo, ficava horas com ele no N64.
Grandes e Belas lembranças..
One minute I’m in the Grand Canyon, the next minute I’m in Iowa.
And you were in California forever lol
I've been looking for this game for months and now that I found it it unlocked a lot of memories
I surprised myself humming the songs (even the solos) after more than 20 years since I last played this game!
Dude same here! Played this game on N64 when I was 5-8 years old. Just hit 27..
Childhood memories overload..I spent a many hours with the red sports car..
I liked the school bus myself.
The childhood flashbacks man ❤
Me too
I remember this game my dad had got me a Nintendo 64 with this game, Golden eye and Super Mario 64
I don't know what's more annoying when you're in 1st place position; crashing into cars going the wrong fricking way, or getting hit with a blue paratroopa shell.
I would give anything to go back in time and play this for the first time again
Fue muy buen juego
i hope for raw thrills and nintendo to re-release it on switch nso
@@nuclealent4507 Si, ojala y lo hagan 🙏
So when you win a race... you get a .gif animation? lol
Of tiddy tho
Let's be honest. Who didn't secretly have a crush on the girl holding the trophy?
I loved this Game back in the day
i still have all 3 and my Nintendo 64 and I still have super nes
Me too
I just feel like crying thinking about this game, ah great memories as I say this was one of my very 1st games along with banjo and 007.. I love this game
Many Friday nights spent as a teenager playing this while having my Walkman on❤
Played a lot this one back in my home town as a kid in an arcade center!
+Fillipe356 the arcade at a campground is where i remember playing it the best.
Anyone else love the trench of death in the third stage? "Hang on kids!"
I'd press the camera buttons to get the cop car and bus all the time.
"Two-player challenge!"
Chicago was always the hardest.
It's true
It was Redwood AND Chicago that always gave me headaches 😂
fun times back in the late 90s!
This is the most 90s game ever made.
I’m here because I wanted to remember the trophy girl ! Oh glad to see you again
I remember this game in my childhood.
Me too
i looked forever for this game again, i haven't thought about the music and graphics for 19 years. Its nostalgia but a weird unknown nostalgia about something i thought i forgot
This game acting like video game representations of Hollywood and redwood forest was such a big deal. Lol
on the grand canyon race you travel like over 1,000 miles from arizona up to south dakota! really doesn't make sense! on the map route they could have thrown in a couple more races in between , i see they went through new mexico and colorado but where were they?
cracked the biggest smile , remembering this in my childhood
Half the game is spent in CA. It's like the devs were only familiar with that state. Also, given the weird order / physicality of stages in CA, it's disappointing that they couldn't hook North to have a NYC stage before driving South to Washington DC.
Watching me me cry. Just want to bring my childhood back
This is so nostalgic omg and the music. I used to play this when I was 12 years old now I'm 22
This game was simple, fun and clever. I miss this. Now we have too many options lol
The sound track 🔥🔥
So many memories nostalgic thank
You YouTUbe !!!!
what memories i used to play this game in my cousin N64, cool soundtrack. we always danced with the music of second level 🤣
The N64 port sucked because we couldn't run over animals and removing the ending with Bill Clinton in a hot tub with women in pink bikinis.
+Spike Riley Nintendo are heartless bastards.
CaptainAtomSmasher No, they're just wimps who are afraid of letting players play a racing game that allows you to run over animals because it could cause a lawsuit.
Spike Riley I'm talking about Bill Clinton in a hot tub with bikini babes!
CaptainAtomSmasher That could be Nintendo is still against having political figures in games on their consoles and handhelds.
+Spike Riley hy a
Man, I rented this SO many times back in the day. Good times!
I remember getting the school bus. Fun times game aged way too much.
+arcticfox04 3D games in general age quickly.
They age of course. Its just the controls aged much quicker then say a Mario Kart 64 or other Arcade style racers.
+arcticfox04 Oh true. I didn't even think about the controls. Everything before dual analogue sticks really needed some amazing design.
Yeeeeahh, woh, woh.....wohh, woh, woh, woh, woooh ,woh, wohoo...choose your car. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I was always so hyped after that lol ROFL
Reminds me of Saturday's with no school or summer school, its raining outside so you go and play cruisin USA all day lol
@@betterbusinessbureau3056 Facts...
I came to Canada in 05’ as a5 year old. I remember my parents buying me an n64 or something like that. I distinctly remember the desert level lol.
Man as soon as the first race began and that soundtrack started it all started coming back.
Edit: Redwood Forest had the best track on the whole game, and you cant tell me differently.
Man the tunnel at 11:48, what a nightmare. My most hated stage of this game
Redwood forest that's uhh living hell racing in the forest to the finish line my 2 uncles and aunt and me hated that level back in the days when I was a little kid playing this game
I never understood why Mt Rushmore was in Arizona???
Me neither. It's supposed to be in South Dakota.
Was I the only one who would write ASS on the license plate?
Def not 😂😂
This shit IMMEDIATELY transports me back to 8th grade summer, spending the night at my best friend's house eating 2 lbs bags of Swedish fish and cheesesteaks and soda. We'd turn the TV down and blast burnt CDs of Bone Thugs N Harmony, Biggie, Tupac, this new guy that came out called DMX, or whatever mix tape was out at the time. Then at some point it'd turn into NBA Hangtime. Then sometimes just sit and talk about girls while my friend aimlessly explored in Ocarina of Time. Some of the deepest teenage thoughts of what would happen "if we ever made it in rap" transpired on a cross country cruise through the USA. Just me and my friend with his grey controller, and my atomic purple one.
I never cease to fear before time.
When I was a kid I thought the new colors made the car faster 😆
Hold up - they actually did?? Wow
Yeah it was an upgrade system lol
Bro this makes so happy that I got recommended this video I Been looking for over years to know the name of this game
Que recuerdos, nunca se. Me borran de mi mente.
This game unlocks repressed gaming memories from my childhood. Good times then.
Gosh I miss hearing "checkpoint "!
Redwood forest was my favorite!
After many many years of this game that was deeply buried in the back of my nostalgia kid brain… i found it. All i had as the base of remembrance for this game was the Redwood Forest level annnd sure enough… here it is! I cant believe i found it! Leave it to Cruisin’ to help me.. considering i have Cruisin Blast on the Nintendo Switch 😂 omfg thank you! Even tho this is 7 yrs already, its new to me and boy am i glad i can now cross this game off my nostalgia list. Thank you and happy 2023 to you and everyone else!
I saw this game when I was a kid alongside Daytona USA.
20 years later, I didn't know you can unlock and play as the helicopter.
I’ve seen this game on laundry mat
Man,i wana go back to 96 and play games and eat pizza all day again
I was the Queen of the Chicago level and my car of choice was the silver car.
One story: While starting sequence the cars I let drove and I stand still while when the other cars were on the run, I began to drove and that with higher speed (is genius from the producers, that cars at last get higher speed until they reached first one and or so and so on) and overtook all and in the best case without accident and without accident to the end. But sometimes, yes, crash was. And what is nice in rembebering, the squashed flys on the windshild from the car in the one setting to look outside the windshild.
Am I the only one who remembers the announcer referencing the Cherry Blossoms in the 64 version but didn't hear it in this video?
Yo jugaba con el que era mi mejor amigo que ya murió solamente a chocar con otros coches ,los que parecían un Suzuki Jimni eran los que más volaban ,de eso hace más de 20 años y lo recuerdo como si fuera ayer ,cuanta nostalgia.
I was so disappointed when I got the cartridge of this that Iowa didn't have the deer you could smash into like the arcade version.
Never understood the woman yelling at near danger. I thought the driver was riding solo lol.
Classic game. Loved it as a kid!
I remember playing this and the only sdong i would listen to was redline shuffle
Some good brakes on those cars the way they stop at the finishing line.
They don't stop they just freeze the camera and gameplay at that point
Talk about childhood omg brings back so many great memories
This was one of N64 games I had in my collection
Me to, I forgot how bad the turning was lol
The House Special theme is very close to the Arcade port still I love it oh the memories
I used to play this when I was a little kid. NOSTALGIA
Ahh, yes the classic 70's porno soundtrack to this game...unreal, nostalgia hitting hard. I remember back in the mid-90's, thinking these graphics were basically as good as it could ever possibly get
I still don't know what's being said right after the race when the map comes up... I always thought I heard "Damnit!" as a kid and didn't understand why
I think she says, “Dig it!”
It’s been years I miss this game
They call it Cruis'n USA but half the game takes place in California.
And remember one minute you were in Arizona but next minute you were in Iowa
I use to always play this arcade in the bowling alley, fun times and fun game
Do I recall correctly, that the real game ran WAY choppier, 15-30fps, not this super nice 60fps. This video makes the game actually look not terrible.
With one player it ran this way. Also, this game isnt exactly running 60 fps locked, it dips a great many times in various instances.
Back to your point, 2 or 4 player (cant recall if 4 player was avail on 64 with original) was super choppy, easily reduced to 30fps and frequent disp below that much like all 4player n64 games, dukey nukem, dkong racing, mkart, golden eye, dukey nukem zero hour etc. 😉
So many memories