Daytona USA 2 finally has a remake for modern consoles, but there’s a catch

After 25 years, we can finally play Sega’s venerable arcade game Daytona USA 2 on home consoles, thanks to a long-awaited remake for modern hardware.

Except, as reported by X user @ham64 via Famitsu magazine, it’s actually coming back within upcoming Yakuza spinoff Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name.

So if you want some of that sweet, rose-tinted arcade oval racing of yore, you’ll need to head down the arcades in an action-RPG-meets-life-sim and look out for ‘Sega Racing Classic 2’ - it’s been renamed to avoid legal rights issues.

Better late than never. Daytona USA 2 was the most fun you could have in an arcade in 1998 and a Dreamcast version was planned to capitalise on its popularity.

But it never materialised. What Dreamcast gamers got instead was Daytona 2001. And it was a good game. But it wasn’t the game.

This quasi-remake represents two and a half decades of hopes and prayers, then. Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name releases on 9 November for Xbox, PlayStation and PC.