Opens March 23, 2024
Play your way through the history of electronic driving games and learn about America’s long fascination with the need for speed in Raceway Arcade. Start your engine and zip through the evolution of driving games in this highly interactive and artifact-rich exhibit designed for racing enthusiasts of all ages.
- Challenge friends to the two-player Daytona USA (1994), three-player Super Sprint(1986), and the two-player favorite Mario Kart Arcade GP2(2007).
- Be the first to the finish line in arcade classics such as Pole Position 2 (1983), Out Run (1987), and Cruis’n USA (1994).
- Grab the wheel in the thrilling Cruisin’ Blast(2017).
- Take your picture on the victory stand.
- View pioneering racing games from The Strong’s collections—including International Mutoscope’s Drive-Mobile (1941), one of the earliest coin-operated driving games and Atari’s Gran Trak 10 (1974), the first arcade racing video game.
- See how the precursors to modern video games operated by examining the inner-workings of the electro-mechanical Chicago Coin’s Drive Master (1969).
Produced by The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games.
Playable machines in Raceway Arcade require purchased tokens. Money collected from the sale of tokens helps maintain these original artifacts.
(Note: Arcade games are sometimes rotated for maintenance. This list is updated periodically.)
- Banzai Run pinball
- Cruis’n Blast
- Cruis’n USA
- Daytona USA
- Gumball Rally
- Mario Kart GP
- Road Blaster
- Sega Gremlin Turbo
- Sega Outrun
- Spy hunter
- Super GT
- Lemans
- Pole Position 2
- Motorcycle