Cruis'n is a racing game developed by Just Games Interactive and published by Midway Games for the Wii. It is a modified version of Raw Thrills' The Fast and the Furious, which was released in arcades in 2004 and was based on the Fast & Furious franchise. The Wii version used the Cruis'n brand owned by Nintendo. The Raw Thrills development team, led by Eugene Jarvis, was composed of former Midway employees who worked on the Cruis'n series. The game has similar gameplay to previous titles in the series. Despite this, the game was panned by critics. There are 12 tracks in total and 16 cars to choose from. Players race in point-to-point races on courses based on real-life locations while avoiding various road hazards such as oncoming traffic and construction zones. Players can gain a limited temporary boost in speed by using nitrous oxide, otherwise known as N2O or simply Nitrous.
The game allows players to customize and upgrade their cars' features, such as spoilers, decals, neon lights, ground effects, and engines, which they must purchase with money earned from races. The arcade version uses a PIN entered on a built-in numeric keypad to recall player data, including in-game money earned from previous game sessions, allowing them to keep car upgrades previously purchased. The Fast and the Furious was the second title released by Raw Thrills, which had been founded in 2002 by a group of former Midway employees after that company left the arcade market in late 2001. The game's lead developer was Eugene Jarvis, who had overseen the development of the original Cruis'n arcade games while at Midway.
In 2006, Midway announced plans to port the arcade game to home consoles. Developers Just Games Interactive were hired to port the game for the Wii. After being refused the F&F license (as the home console rights were already held by an unrelated game published by Namco Bandai) Midway decided to brand the game as part of the Cruis'n series under license from Nintendo, with whom they collaborated on previous games in the series in arcades. The port was released on November 27, 2007, in North America, in Australasia on February 14, 2008, and in Europe on March 27.
In 2023, Arcade1Up released a replica of the stand-up version of the game including the original game and the first sequel.
