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As part of a licensing deal between Midway and Nintendo, the arcade versions of Cruis'n USA and Killer Instinct were advertised both in their attract modes and on flyers as being powered by Nintendo's Ultra 64 hardware, which would eventually be released as the Nintendo 64. However, this claim was false; the versions of both games shown at the 1994 Summer Consumer Electronics Show ran on a modified JAMMA arcade board. As for the versions released to arcades, Cruis'n USA ran on the significantly different Midway V arcade hardware, while Killer Instinct only utilized parts of the Nintendo 64 hardware. It used a 64-bit MIPS CPU and the Nintendo 64 file format for data structure, but not the console's memory media or graphics technology.
Cruis'n USA attract mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKHtzzy3ec
Killer Instinct attract mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjAticJ_2Q
GamePro issue #65 (December 1994) (page 288 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_065_December_1994
GamePro issue #68 (March 1995) (page 27 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_068_March_1995
NEXT Generation no. 12 (December 1995) (page 84 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/nextgen-issue-012/page/n85/mode/1up
1994 arcade flyers:
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/238
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/525
Cruis'n USA technical information:
https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=615
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=crusnusa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKHtzzy3ec
Killer Instinct attract mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjAticJ_2Q
GamePro issue #65 (December 1994) (page 288 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_065_December_1994
GamePro issue #68 (March 1995) (page 27 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_068_March_1995
NEXT Generation no. 12 (December 1995) (page 84 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/nextgen-issue-012/page/n85/mode/1up
1994 arcade flyers:
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/238
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/525
Cruis'n USA technical information:
https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=615
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=crusnusa
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