And heres why:
Cruisin USA is arcade racing in its purest form and carries all the genre's trademarks, such as catch up (aka rubber banding), exaggerated vehicle performance, and of course, big jumps!
Winning a race rewards you with a free race (on arcade default settings) and a babe with a trophy. Score!
It runs great in MAME on an Athlon X2 7750 + Ati 4850 with a MS sidewinder wheel (10 years and still going strong, shame about the drivers).
On my usual trawl through the massive trays of Playstation 2 games I was intrigued and a little bit creeped out to find this:
White Van Racer is a game for the adrenaline junkie that also happens to drive a white -probably windowless- van. Hit the streets in a wide variety of white vans, from Ice Cream vans to plumbers Vans or even cable repair van.
Im not sure if I regret leaving White Van Racer on the store shelf or not. Sure its creepy, and just owning it might get my working with children licence revoked, but to own one of the kookiest games out there maybe its worth it.
You never know what budget publishers will put out. Also available on PC!