Cruis'n Exotica, Arcade Video game by Midway Games, Inc. (2000)

Arcade Video game published 24 years ago by Midway Games, Inc.

Listed in MAME

Cruis'n Exotica © 2000 Midway Games, Incorporated.

A great driving game and a direct sequel to 'Cruis'n World', and is again a point-to-point racing game with a more twist of fun, with each race having the player racing against nine rival drivers.

Featuring good graphics and new exotic tracks in a variety of global locations, such as Las Vegas, Hong Kong and India also into fantasy worlds (Atlantis, Amazon, Mars). The Cars range from sportcars to more unusual vehicles such as trucks, minis, and police vehicles also more strange vehicles such an clown, a cowboy and an alien.

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TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.

Midway Zeus 2 hardware

Main CPU : TMS32031 (@ 50 Mhz)
Sound CPU : ADSP2104 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DMA-driven (@ 16 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6

TRIVIA

Cruis'n Exotica was released in February 2000 (according to the Version 1.3).

In the Las Vegas race, when you pass under the Elvis impersonator, he looks a bit like Nintendo's 1981 cash cow Donkey Kong in an Elvis suit. And you can also hear an Elvis Guitar Style rendition of the Donkey Kong theme for a few seconds.

Michael Jackson used to own this game (Serial number 44372405623). It was sold at the official Michael Jackson Auction on Apr. 24th, 2009.

UPDATES

* Version 1.3
* Version 1.6
* Version 2.4

TIPS AND TRICKS

* Car Selection Cheat : by pressing the view buttons you can select between the available six cars and an additional twelve cars (low view), the color of the car (chase view), and the person in the car (high view). If you cycle through this once you will see all the characters, on the second cycle their heads will be oversized (Clown, Baby, Blonde Lady, Guy with crew cut, etc.).

SERIES

1. Cruis'n USA (1994)
2. Cruis'n World (1996)
3. Cruis'n Exotica (2000)
4. Cruis'n Velocity (2001, Nintendo GameBoy Advance)
5. Cruis'n (2007, Nintendo Wii)

STAFF

Director : Eugene Jarvis
Programmer : Eric Pribyl
Artists : Shawn Cooper, Ted Barber

PORTS

CONSOLES:
Nintendo 64 (2000)
Nintendo Game Boy Color (2000)

SOURCES

Game's manuals.
Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshot.