Driving your hot rods over animals, one of the more funny elements of the arcade game, also will be eliminated. In fact, Nintendo has removed the animals entirely from the game.
When gamers finish the arcade version, they're greeted in Washington DC by President Bill Clinton, Hillary, and a couple of "friends" in a hot tub. That too will be scratched. There will also be some other unspecified things removed (probably a lot of the Easter eggs), although it isn't clear whether or not the "hidden" cars, like the cop car and bus will be removed.
N64.com spoke with Cruis'n USA creator Eugene Jarvis, who's also responsible for such arcade greats as Defender and Robotron, to get his opinion about these changes. "It seems like they don't have any sense of humor. I don't know what's wrong with those people."
Neither do we. Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Killer Instinct Gold are both uncensored on the console, with all the blood and gore intact, so why remove the humor in Cruis'n? Censoring Mortal Kombat on the Super NES was one of Nintendo's worst decisions ever, and we feel that this one isn't much better.