30 Years of Outrun: A Retrospective | Nostalgia Nerd

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30 Years since Outrun first appeared in our arcades. Can you believe that? Well, this video might help you wade through that timeline, and if your youth was anything similar to mine, you may have played quite a few home ports of this sensational game. In this video I take a look at the brilliant arcade version and look at the various Outrun home ports & conversions which I encountered throughout the '80s, '90s and '00s. Included in this video are the following formats;
Outrun arcade
Outrun Sinclair Spectrum
Outrun Master System
Outrun C64
Outrun Megadrive/Genesis
Outrun DOS
Outrun Online Arcade
Outrun Grandstand Dashboard
So, sit back and enjoy Outrun from 1986 until 2016, from my personal perspective.
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@MEGAMIGA 6 лет назад

One of my favourite arcade games ever. What a shock when I saw it for the very first time!

@MudSluggerBP 5 лет назад

Magical Sound Shower is the greatest video game audio track of all time.

@Hellwyck 8 лет назад

The FM on the reg plate was for Probe Software's (now sadly deceased) programmer Fergus McGovern - Not for the STFM.

@DavidB-rx3km 7 лет назад

I saw Outrun motion cabinet in Blackpool in 1986, and it blew me away. I was 10 and knew then I wanted to get into making games which I was lucky enough to do as a job 10 years later and still am! Thank you Sega!

@mr.2cents.846 7 лет назад

THIS was the game that got me hooked on video games. When I saw it walking by the arcade, I couldn't resist. I had to try it. It was love at first coin.

@ThisNewThing 8 лет назад

Streching a 4:3 image is punishable by law!

@robertmcmillan3638 4 года назад

Not if you stretch it to 16.9 then select wide zoom if available 😀.

@jms3music 7 лет назад

30 years!?! I now REALLY feel old...

@CkVega 7 лет назад

I've just played outrun 2 in the arcade again, I've a real hankering to buy some steering wheels etc to recreate the experience, damn I love the drifting in that game!

@maximuscesar 8 лет назад

The Saturn version is a perfect arcade port. But that was much much later.

@eupher2 6 лет назад

Yeah the Sega Version is the closest to the arcade. Sucks that version only came out in Japan, so I didn't get to play it until 2006.

@SionynJones 6 лет назад

3DS version is the definitive version now. M2 did a hell of job.

@jasonlee7816 6 лет назад

if Out Run was released on 32X in 1994 or 1995 it would’ve been the 1st perfect port before the Saturn version

@jasonlee7816 6 лет назад

+eupher2 the Sega Saturn Out Run port didn’t only come out in Japan it was included in a collection (compilation) Sega Ages outside Japan with After Burner ll + Space Harrier late 1990’s (1997 or 1998)

@urzu117 6 лет назад

It's actually better than the arcade version cause it runs at 60fps vs the arcades 30fps. Plus dat kickass CD quality instrumental OST was a sweet bonus.

@izzieb 8 лет назад

I love the originals, but I loved the arcade 3D version. Many happy memories of playing with my friends.

@robbierupac9442 7 лет назад

Just simply incredible amount of nostalgia and kick ass for SEGA Master System fanboys here in the States👌💯🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮

@deathbringer2000 6 лет назад

the ending track gave me an eargasm. jesus that was beautiful

@tayloralmond 8 лет назад

@4:15, to the right of the Out Run cabinet. Is that IT Crowd pinball? If that's not Moss and Roy, it sure looks like them.

@bartosx 6 лет назад

the c64 version apart from the obvious lack of route choices was a really quite a marvel that really captured the fast arcade feel imo.

@KegRaider 4 года назад

"Unless we're all dead by then, which is looking very likely" - Covid19 predictions from 2016!

@white-dragon4424 4 года назад

Yes, as soon as he said that I thought, "If you only knew!"

@3dmaster205 3 года назад

Covid19 is barely killing anyone.

@diederick76 3 года назад

Oh, I was thinks geopolitics or climate crises, my you might be right.

@armaste 7 лет назад

Thanks for this, enjoyed it !!

@soundshower4889 8 лет назад

Enjoyed the video, well done.

@Scarflix 6 лет назад

Great video, Nostalgia Nerd! Love meeting other OutRun fans on RU-vid!

@Domarius64 5 лет назад

Those 2 arcade endings are adorable, I never knew about them!

@segamdhill916 4 года назад

Ace video. Outrun is in the post to me. Looking forward to it. This video was just the ticket old chap. :)

@AnthonyFlack 4 года назад

It's curious that this video omits the best versions, the Saturn port of Outrun and Outrun 2006 on the original Xbox.

@psychopoison 8 лет назад

I Love this game!

@waynemarsh8732 7 лет назад

I love how Peter Griffin is driving the car in the Atari ST version.

@toshineon 7 лет назад

Outrun... Saw it first time in the late 90's in an arcade in the mall where I lived. Loved the game ever since.

@legionofdoom2009 7 лет назад

Um, what about Outrunners?

@paulolameiras861 7 лет назад

Just realised we are just 2 years away from the futuristic Outrun 2019! Great video btw. Played the original alot on arcades and my Megadrive!

@thehumbleone1983 3 года назад

I first played OutRun at the arcades in Australia loved it and later on my dad got me a Sega master system console with OutRun as one of the games oh the great memories growing up back in the good old days 👍👍👍👍 video

@vidtuby 7 лет назад

Out Run defined and set the standards for racing games. 30 years later I'm still impressed with the graphics and soundtrack of Out Run. I've always considered Sega being the Master of Arcades.

@MuhammadAdeelbutt 4 года назад

What a great review... thank you!

@laatmaarzien 8 лет назад

OutRun the ultimate classic!

@Trialwolf 8 лет назад

I have a number of versions of this game including the PC-Engine version which I quite enjoy.

@MM0SDK 7 лет назад

I always enjoyed the music to Outrun back then.

@losalfajoresok 8 лет назад

The best racing game of the 80s and maybe the best from the arcades. Played a lot the C64, and in those days it gave me a lot of enjoyment even if was far from the arcade quality. Great video man!

@bwc1976 3 года назад

It really is amazing (and sad at the same time) how the 8-bit Master System port was so much better than those for the (16-bit) Atari, Amiga, and PC. The PC one doesn't look too bad, but supporting AdLib would have made it so much better.

@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 2 года назад

That's what you get when US Gold get the conversion rights and give the conversion to Probe Software to handle 😭

@DannyNilsson 6 лет назад

for the 8bit era i always had my hopes high each time a arcade conversion came out, and i was always sold by the coverart of the cames, but always ended with a disappointment, though i think the Rainbow Island was one of the best conversions

@RetroUnlim 7 лет назад

It's a crime that outrun wasn't made on the sega 32x alongside afterburner and space harrier, which were superb versions.

@sjake333 7 лет назад

Yeah, it's bizzare they never made a 32X version. The 32X versions of Space Harrier and After Burner II were the first almost-arcade perfect ports.

@jasonlee7816 6 лет назад

i think 32X version of Out Run was in development then cancelled (scrapped) because of hardware limits and/or a Ferrari license fee disagreement (issue)

@darreng1052 7 лет назад

Became obsessed with this on the arcades and pier in Hastings when it first came out. There were 2 motion sitdowns and 1 fixed, these were always busy, so if unlucky had to use the standup, especially in the hols!

@Tudodesk Год назад

I also played this in the arcade in Hastings and also in Folkestone, I used to spend my Tuesday nights in Saturdays nightclub listening to john digweed play, Later I ripped off Hang on and made my own C64 game called Max Torque. I then changed the bike into a Porsche and made an Outrun style demo, I showed that to Geoff Brown at US Gold and the rest is History, I lived in Appledore and had the machine in my parents garage, nearly 40 years later I ended up being the 17 year old that made the c64 version of Outrun. Who would of thought!

@Shundi12 8 лет назад

From a self confessed arcade nut, more arcade games please! Although I like the original Outrun now, it didn't amaze me when I was younger. My favourite Sega racer nostalgia wise was Virtua Racing. Playing that game in an arcade in 1992 when I was 10 years old blew me away. The graphics were unreal. Somehow, I still think they look futuristic now!

@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT 3 года назад

That spectrum version looks so much like an 80s Tiger handheld game. At least it has the music, that is my favorite Outrun tune.

@ColinMcX 8 лет назад

I still have the Amstrad version, it came with the ost on a cassete. I made my dad play it in the car a lot!

@GregzVR 6 лет назад

At least you had music! On my Amstrad version I had feck all. Just the tape. Fortunately, being 13 in 1987, I did play the arcade version first, so all home versions(excluding the Megadrive) that I had(including the Atari ST version), were pants, until much later.

@soulagent79 7 лет назад

Out Run on C-64 Datasette was the first game I ever owned.

@MrDaveP75 8 лет назад

I bought the Spectrum version with my earned pocket money thanks to the generous 'sponsored' magazine reviews and ended up playing the music cassette more than the game. It's then that I learned to treat reviews with more caution!

@lepterfirefall 7 лет назад

Loved outrun.....fave racer ever.

@Horzuhammer 8 лет назад

Curiously, this videeo made me want to play a game of Outrun, and then another game when you reminded me of my (and everyone else's) impending doom. So I did! Considered emulating the cabinet, but went with the PC-Engine port instead. It's a good one.

@IgnacioGuerendiain 8 лет назад

Allow me a critisism on this awesome video. It's a shame you scaled the game footage breaking the aspect ratio instead of centering it with a background or just black at the sides. You also lost the opportunity of mentioning the open source Cannonball that can run the original ROM in widescreen, 60fps and other improvements.

@RetroMMA 8 лет назад

+ignacio More info if you don't mind.

@IgnacioGuerendiain 8 лет назад

+The Mass Debator Here is all the info you need for running it github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki

@RetroMMA 8 лет назад

***** Thanks!

@MrThunderwing 7 лет назад

... Masturbator?

@DannyNilsson 6 лет назад

yeah i also missed the mention of Cannonball. this was for the first time i really got into Outrun, playing it everyday on my PS Vita when going to work. i must say it took some time to complete all the stages

@truecauseofchaos 6 лет назад

Outrun Online Arcade on XBLA and PSN is one of the greatest projects I've had the pleasure to work on :)

@AnthonyFlack 4 года назад

Too bad it didn't have all the content of Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast. Even more too bad that it never got a physical release and it has been delisted for many years. :(

@hrnekbezucha 6 лет назад

Another win for Megadrive. Thank you

@jasonlee7816 6 лет назад

Out Run on the Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive could’ve been better in some areas graphics, music, sound, visuals

@jamdonut7692 2 года назад

Loved this game back in the 80s

@SharifSourour 8 лет назад

I love Final Freeway 2 on iOS. It's a great Outrun clone!

@Pinman1973 7 лет назад

I have a original Outrun upright arcade game myself, still my nr 1 driving game !

@DarthXBlade 6 лет назад

The Saturn version is a perfect arcade port agreed

@banjoguyollie 8 лет назад

man, is this my dream cab or what. planning on getting one hopefully next year

@doranselwyn8608 7 лет назад

The DOS version sounded a lot better on the Tandy 1000 because of the Tandy sound card.

@EpicLebaneseNerd 7 лет назад

my first ever sega interaction was OUTRUN in the arcades.....i was a pure nintendo boy but this game amazed me, years later, OUTRUNNERS blew me away....and i started to think that sega might be awesome, unlike nintendo, sega arcades were easyto find, so i compensated my nintendo games at home with sega games at the arcades, shinobi, golden axe and so much more....today i play these old games in 3D on my nintendo new 3ds and they still hold up...

@brannenthompson9662 5 лет назад

I remember having to write down all the levels tape counter numbers, a nightmare the first playthrough. and at 4:09 is that the I,T Crowd reference on the right-hand pinball table and if so why?

@davohsaurus 6 лет назад

I literally saw a copy of this TODAY and didn't pick it up

@talideon 8 лет назад

C64: can't choose your route, but got a playable game with decent graphics and music. :-D

@ohyeah2389-samd 6 лет назад

Outrun 2006 - best version. Like the ps arcade port he featured in the video, but for PC, and with tons of new cars, features, songs, and modes.

@Daz555Daz 6 лет назад

Arcade version is without question an all time top 10 game for me and I'm going back to my first gaming experiences as a kid with TV Pong.

@Wagoo 8 лет назад

I found an Outrun 2 cab in Birmingham airport last week, awww yeah!

@Hellwyck 8 лет назад

There's one in Bury @ Arcade Club, Eli Mill. £10 in, all games free play.

@andrewbutler9533 6 лет назад

I guess that spectrum screen shot with the big trucks was in Your Sinclair? I definitely remember that - what a con! Riddle me this Batman, if they could make a superb, fast arcade port of the quality of Chase HQ, then why couldn't they pull-off Out Run? Regrets of my childhood...

@OnlyEpicEmber 4 года назад

"Unless, of course, we're all dead by then. Which is looking increasingly likely!" Well, this video aged well.

@MrSegAsh 7 лет назад

Thats one way to end a video, predict the deaths of all your viewers. lol. Nice Video BTW :-)

@WhatALoadOfTosca 6 лет назад

It made me chuckle. I only think a handful of viewers possibly this side of the water understand the comment :)

@Riz2336 7 лет назад

I'd wish I could say my first experience with Outrun was on the actual arcade machine but luckily it was on the Sega Saturn port of it I got shortly after getting my system and I guess it's one of the best ports of the game ever made (nearly arcade perfect). Very fun addictive simple game play with amazing music to go along with the ride. Classic Sega arcade action.

@TeamEmperor1 6 лет назад

You were lucky I had the 48k version & had to play the arcade music in cassette player while i played it hahah. Love this games so much from the first time in the sit down arcade machine to the 3DS version

@outtheredude 8 лет назад

First saw it in the arcade, next to Salamander and Roadblasters. The graphics and sound of those machines were absolutely awesome next to what my 8-bit Amstrad CPC 464 could do. Later played the Game Gear and Game Boy Advance versions. Still like to play the Mame version every now and again on my XP machine (great for emulators). Still, 30 years?!? Wut? When did we get so old?

@rodmunch69 6 лет назад

I LOVED the arcade version of this game, all the local arcades had the sit down moving version of the game back then and it's the first place I'd always go as a kid. For home consoles I had the C64 version and I remember loving it - in particular how good the music was on it. As you said it didn't have branching, which was terrible, but until the Genesis version came out, it was the best out there (well assuming there wasn't an Amiga version, but if there was I never saw it).

@SodaGumX 3 года назад

the more i see of the zx spectrum the more happy i am we did not get those slow computers over here. my dads work had a sega turbo and outrun arcade and at night he would set it in free play and leave me alone with them all night long.

@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 2 года назад

It was actually faster for 3D titles (wire frame 3D and Isometric 3D) than say the C64, but yeah, awful AY soundchip, colour clash, dead flesh keyboards 🤣

@andrewbutler9533 5 лет назад

Outrun or death! What a combination 👍

@billschlafly4107 6 лет назад

I played OutRun for many hours on the Turbografx 16. Never could beat the damn thing.

@felippecezar9117 8 лет назад

Isn't the 360 version the same one released for the original XBOX (Outrun coast 2 coast 2006) with improved graphics?

@Retro2futuregaming 5 лет назад

One of the best driving games ever.

@robertdaone 3 года назад

I think the best next to the arcade was the Sega Saturn version. Loved Turbo Outrun also.

@gallimead 6 лет назад

I had the C64 version, and even came with an audio casette, that had all 3 tracks, as the developers must of admitted the audio, may be sub par. On a different note, funland arcade in Southport had the huge cockpit original Outrun, for about a decade. Eventually, the mechanism for the side shifting, broke down, then the springs for the steering wheel. Quite a let down, for 30p a go!!. However, they made their money on that machine. Really liked the review, think I'll press that subscribe button. I might be dead in 30 years, that would make me 77.

@mundomakina1980 3 года назад

Excelent commentary and video,,,,,Saludos Mundo Makina......Great GAME,Fenomenal and Marvelous Game,,,,Sega Saturn Excellent Version......

@AaronShenghao 4 года назад

9:14 This is my childhood, Outrun 2 SP arcade game (the version shown is the Xbox port of the same game)

@MrThunderwing 8 лет назад

Nice retrospective look back at one of my favourite game series ever. Like yourself I started off with the Speccy 128k version before moving on the Sega Master System version. The next version of Outrun I owned after that though was the Saturn version and it finally felt like I was really playing an arcade perfect port albeit with a joypad. You should check out Cannonball, the enhanced Outrun Engine. It's the original game re-written to include lots of enhancements, like widescreen a 60 fps mode and best of all working force feedback for racing wheels.

@SevenDeMagnus 5 лет назад

Cool

@andrewdupuis1151 6 лет назад

first time i play outrun it was on c64. great racing game back then I do have outrun coast 2 coast on pc

@somethingoriginal1707 4 года назад

So I'm gonna assume you've never played OutRunners? You really should if you haven't already. It was never given a home release, but it's TOTALLY worth emulating on MAME. It's even better than the original Outrun in my opinion.

@soulblazerz 5 лет назад

I'm kind of impressed with the ZX Spectrum's version of Outrun. But then, I love seeing really deconstructed versions of classic games.

@maxleon61702 2 года назад

Dang, it's one of my Childhood Games.

@paulanderson79 5 лет назад

The music tracks are superb, Magical Sound Shower being my favourite. Up tempo samba with attitude. The MIDI tracks are realised by Yamaha derived FM synth chips.

@alexramos2568 7 лет назад

best racing ever, still play the xbox and PSP version today

@dtwistrewind7361 5 лет назад

Ps3 outrun 2000 can't believe you left it out

@ratius1979 3 года назад

My first experience of Outrun was a sit down cabinet in Courtown aracde in Co Wexford, Ireland around 1988. Used to go down there every single night to play it along with Sega Turbo (and later years Splatterhouse and Aliens). Think Outrun used to cost 50p a play!

@CommodoreFan64 8 лет назад

This has to be one of my favorite racing games of all time, and I wish you had mentioned OutRunners arcade, and the Genesis/Mega Drive home port as it's really good as well, and even though you can no longer download it from STEAM(unless you already own it, and are reinstalling the game on a new machine) OutRun Coast 2 Coast 2006 outside of the original OutRun deluxe arcade cab has to be my favorite of all the OutRun games. I truly hope SEGA brings it back at some point with a quality sequel.

@JohnnyThousand605 6 лет назад

Battle Outrun on the Master System was great. I remember a weird problem I personally had with the game where I could only beat the second last boss if I avoided buying the best engine/tyres (I can' remember which) and bought the middling quality instead. In typing this I'm thinking that was probably a crude form of play adjustment, like pre-race rubber banding.

@adrianhowland4705 7 лет назад

I would've liked this three times if I could.

@Retrocidal 7 лет назад

Super out run is awesome good old days

@lekanraposte6732 7 лет назад

Played the Sega Master version to death back in the days. Made it to all the endings.

@listerofsmeg884 Год назад

one of the first Arcade games i played. had the C64 version which wasn't bad and quite playable, with great rendition of two of the three music tracks. Another was 'Thunderblade', would love to see a retrospective on that sometime. I play Outrun occasionally now via the mini game available on Yakuza 0 (along with Space Harrier and a few others)

@Dr.SkullScience77 8 лет назад

Outrun 2 on original Xbox was where it all started.. an amazing arcade racer for the time and had an unlockable version of Outrun which was pretty much arcade perfect. Seems to be alot you didn't cover in this vid including the PC engine version (technically 8-bit!!), a very very good Sega Saturn version, a version in Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast, a 3D version on the 3D AGES on PS2, the amazing PSP version of Outrun Coast to Coast and 3DS version of Outrun!! Go check out the Game Sack coverage of this game!!!

@mr.2cents.846 4 года назад

You forgot the awesome Saturn version.

@Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer 4 года назад

I love the Saturn port of this game.

@megachris1112 4 года назад

I had a gba game that had this space harrier and after burner on it, it also had a sound test for the games as well.

@retrogamer33 7 лет назад

My first memory of Outrun was on Commodore 64

@retrogamer33 7 лет назад

Also I notice you have something to nit pick about with every version

@ThePCPitChannel 5 лет назад

My first experience was an arcade cabinet on the ferry to France!

@robwebster7406 7 лет назад

True, the xbox version is great, I have Outrun 2 and coast 2 coast and worked well on the 360 before the update, but still have my old xbox and will be playing it again soon, great work keep it up ;)