Dead Heat Arcade

The game is a fast-paced street racing game from the studio behind the original Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune, Dead Heat puts players in high-octane eight-player races in one of four cities (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and London) with a wide selection of real-life cars, including tuner cars and, in the US version, muscle cars.

It includes a nitrous system for speed boosts, high-speed drifting, numerous jumps and obstacles, and Using a PIN system like other racing games, players can store information such as high scores and friends/competitors you've played, but the profile also stores players driving styles.

Similar to some of Namco Bandai's other racing and vehicle games at the time (such as Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 and Tank! Tank! Tank!), the game machine includes a camera above each display that takes a picture of the player, which is used to indicate to others the driver of their vehicle.

Players can opt to have their photo appear as CPU rivals for that machine in future races. The Japanese version of the game also includes an optional mounted head visor (with polarized lenses) for a stereoscopic 3D mode.

[Phantom.Gaming]

I miss arcade racers like this. :( Consoles just don't get games like these very often.

[InsertCoinArcade]

Dead Heat known in Japan as Maximum Heat, is an over-the-top arcade car street racing game developed by Polygon Magic and released by Namco Bandai for arcades, using PC-based Namco System ES1 hardware on October 19, 2010 in North America and April 20, 2011 in Japan.

[figment]

Very good. Especially since the new Dead Heat made its debut at the IAAPA (an organization that caters to amusement parks) convention this week in Orlando.

[oscarestivencarabalyherrer]

It looks like Dead Heat was already inspired by Cruis'n series, Rush series, Midnight Club Series, The Fast And The Furious series, Test Drive series and many more series. It's gonna be awesome

[jaredthegeneralmotorscarguy.]

All 4 races: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London
Car names: Nissan Skyline GTR R34, Ford GT, Ford Mustang GT Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
(1 Nitrous Bottle per race) New York: Nissan Skyline GTR R34 1:48
(3 Nitrous Bottles per race) San Francisco: Ford GT 5:55
Chicago: Ford Mustang GT 9:27
London: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 13:05

[SlayerRellikALT]

Memories of playing this game at namco funscape before morrisons closed it down v.v

[jacobmorgan]

Me: finish! 1st place makes you the best!

[theceoofbasedandlitswagger]

So apparently, the game is available on Teknoparrot. If anyone knows how, PLEASE do us a favor and rip the audio files in Stereo quality. The soundtrack to this game was never released and the only rips I've found available online are sound as if they were ripped in mono quality (or some other term, idk. My main point is that they sound very poor.)

[theonlyKAITOXD]

i don't how to say but,
this game have same engine like wmmt?

[P]

"Mom, I wanna play Maximum Tune!"

"We have Maximum Tune at home."

Maximum Tune at home: 0:01

[bungieman]

There was a short pocket in time where you couldn't escape this game. It was at every arcade I went to.

[alextriska]

1:03 is it too intense for you?
1:05 Dead Heat

[Steven]

How do I increase the volume for the announcer? I can barely hear her voice.

[youngspecial]

Even arcade games are doing better when compared to AAA games... they pride themselves to be fun and actual games

[gamecity]

I still don't know how to get this rom...