9 Video Game Titles Which Lied To You

9. Daytona USA

You'd presume Daytona Beach, FL, and quite specifically, the Daytona International Speedway, would be the perfect setting for an arcade racer called Daytona USA. And you'd be quite correct. Pity then, that SEGA's rubber-burning coin-op has absolutely nothing to do with the eponymous city and circuit.

Well, mostly. When SEGA USA's Tom Petit, inspired by NASCAR's enduring North American success, suggested it as a model for an arcade Ridge Racer killer, SEGA AM2 set about intricately replicating the world famous Daytona 500 course. Satellite imagery was obtained for the purpose - not as simple as a Google Maps search in 1993 - to craft a showpiece track as realistic as the day's arcade boards could allow. Director Toshihiro Nagoshi even flew out to Florida, where he walked a lap of the actual track to better understand its camber.

The efforts for accuracy were entirely in vain. To keep costs down, SEGA declined on a license with NASCAR, resulting in a racing game featuring a highly authentic but entirely unofficial version of Daytona's famous circuit, the, er, 'Three-Seven Speedway'.