The Fast and the Furious (Arcade) - TV Tropes
- ️Wed Apr 02 2025
The Fast and the Furious is an arcade racing game series by Raw Thrills based on The Fast and the Furious.
The series started in 2004 with the release of the original Fast & Furious arcade game, featuring several licensed cars and America-based tracks. This version is also infamous for being ported to the Wii under the name Cruis'n. In 2006, the first spin-off game was released titled Super Bikes, which changes the vehicles into motorcycles. Super Bikes was later made as a standalone series following its two sequels in 2010 and 2018.
Its next game, The Fast and the Furious: Drift was released in 2007 as a tie-in to Tokyo Drift, and features new Japan tracks and a special campaign named Drift Tour. Fast & Furious: SuperCars was released in 2011 and features all tracks from former Fast & Furious games as well as an achievement system.
In 2022, Raw Thrills rebooted the series by releasing a new Fast & Furious arcade game that also utilizes the spy action elements from the later movies. This game includes missions, which must be accomplished by placing first in the race. Six tracks and six cars are selectable in this version.
Games in the series:
Original Series
- The Fast and the Furious (2004)
- The Fast and the Furious: Super Bikes (2006)
- The Fast and the Furious: Drift (2007)
- Fast & Furious SuperCars (2011)
Reboot Games
- Fast & Furious Arcade (2022)
Tropes:
Tropes related to the original Fast & Furious games
- All the Worlds Are a Stage: The final track in Drift's Drift Tour is a mashup of every single former track in the tour.
- Bowdlerise: Certain machines remove the girls that can be seen in the start and finish lines.
- Climactic Volcano Backdrop: Halfway through Takayama, you enter a volcano with minecart tracks and some lava underneath, then you enter a nearby temple area with an Oni statue for a gate, and near the end of the finish line a small eruption happens, destroying a bridge.
- Company Cameo: The Mulholland Drive track features a building with the Universal Studios logo on it, that company being the one that produced the Fast & Furious movies.
- Die, Chair, Die!: You can destroy objects on the race track with your car with no problems whatsoever, including trees, electric poles, rock statues, and even walls.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: SuperCars is the only first generation game to feature achievements.
- Nitro Boost: Available as one of the upgrades that can be given to your car.
- Password Save: The games allow you to save your progress using a numerical password.
- Pimped-Out Car: You earn money by finishing races, in which it can be spent on various upgrades for the cars, such as body, spoiler, and decals.
- Secret Level: In the first game, Chinatown EX and Mulholland Drive are hidden from the level select screen.
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: One section of the Nagano track is set in a snowy mountain.
- Sudden Name Change: Between the original game and Drift, the tracks Race Wars and Golden Gate were changed to Mojave and San Francisco respectively.
Tropes related to the 2022 reboot
- Continuity Nod: The Swiss Alps tracks contains several hazards that call back to the hazards in Cruis'n Blast such as the falling satellite dish from Death Valley and the loose big wheel from London.
- Guns in Church: The Abu Dhabi track has a bomb targeting a highly public area with many people watching, and yet nobody seems to bat an eye.
- Storming the Castle: One of the two missions in Havana, the other one being to destroy the drones.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Compared to the older Fast & Furious arcade game, the 2022 reboot contains many explosions a la Super Bikes 3, though this is because the game includes the spy action elements from the later Fast & Furious movies.