Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition

Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition is a lot of fun, for about an hour or so. After that, you’re running the same six courses with different vehicles until you’ve memorized them. Along the way, you’ll almost certainly get sick of seeing these races run over and over. While the essential arcade experience has been successfully ported to consoles, you still lose something essential in doing so. If you can find this game at your local arcade, you’d be better off playing it there. These races are just more fun with the noise, the lights, and the specialized controls.

If you can't resist feeding some coins into a Fast & Furious: Arcade machine whenever you visit an arcade, you might appreciate being able to play it at home in the form of Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition. For most, though, this barebones port will feel too light on content to feel worthwhile.

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I can well imagine that when you're situated in a hydraulic miniature car attached to an arcade machine that is blaring out the audiovisual presentation of Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition at full tilt, that it's something of a compelling if not a mildly intoxicating quick fix of arcade racing goodness. At home however, and stripped of such performative trickery, Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition fails to impress and really needs much more meat wrapped around its bones to justify its existence away from the din of the arcade scene which birthed it.

For the past twenty years, arcade parlors, laundromats and bowling alleys have featured countless Fast & Furious arcade cabinets. I am 100% sure you’ve seen one of those before, and I bet you’ve played them, like, once. To be honest, even though they were developed by Eugene Jarvis, the man behind the Cruis’n series, they have never been great. Even after countless sequels and revisions, these Fast & Furious arcade games have never been anything other than a novelty. At the very least, ...

We’ve never wanted to recommend a racer more than Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition.