Sega OutRun (arcade) completed on MAME. Ran up the gut for completion and funny ending. Check out my Splash Wave run in full HD! • OutRun in HD - Sega Ar...
+The Frazzle For me it was Pole Position, then Hang On, then this - but Outrun was so next level it was insane - those graphics man, and the moving cockpit of the sitdown Deluxe... for 1986, everyone was quite rightly blown away :)
I love Outrun. I still have it in many formats including on the PS3... before Sony pulled it due to the expiration of a licensing contract with Ferrari. Anyone remember the ZX Spectrum version? To have the in-game music, you had to play a separate cassette on your hi-fi lol. The arcade version will always be a classic to me.
it's funny, i didn't even like this game that much (okay i liked it a lot, it just wasn't my favorite), but i literally couldn't drive the first time i played the 2003 remake of this game on the original xbox because the tears wouldn't let me. never felt that way about a game before and since. pretty sure this game is at fault for my love of cars to this day.
+Lafayette Cathey mowowie might’ve been born in either 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 if that is the case he grew-up in the 1980’s
Can't believe how far ahead of the pack Sega was in the arcade market back then. You couldn't get these kind of graphics, sounds, and gameplay ported to a home system until the 32X add-on came out for the Genesis 8 years LATER!!! Classic game from a classic era of video gaming...
I am so happy we had an old computer with games like this when I was a kid. Born in 1996 and started playing 1999 and got playstation in as late as 2007. I spent age 3-11 with Windows 3.0 :D Played all these old classics for most of my childhood. Non of my friends have experienced this, I feel I can somehow relate to people born in 80's when it comes to games.
I remember the first time I saw an Outrun machin in an arcade. Me and me brother were awestruck with the graphics, music and the sheer presence of it. Looking back at it now, it still holds its weight. Cutting edge game and tue nostalgia. Nice video :o)
Wow!!! Takes me back to my youth!! One of the first arcade games I learned to finish completely! When I was down to my last quarter in the local arcade game room I knew I could play OutRun and go home a winner! LOL!!
Best 80's racing game , i use to be the top score at my local arcade place . This game was the first game with steering force feedback , choice of radio stations and the choice to pick different routes .
Very keenly, this was the racing game that I loved the best at 15 years old. At that point, I already used to love Pole Position, Odyssey 2's "Speedway!", and Sega's Turbo, but that race arcade game called "Out-Run!" - I loved it. Very dearly so! The way I had to understand the game was this - you are in a red race car with a male driver with your female companion passenger--likely a modified Corvette. You are going from the East Coast all the way to the West Coast and you have to deal with 5 racing stages that throws almost every obstacle at you. There is a tinge of the "Spy Hunter" game where if you hit any passing trucks, vans, or other vehicles, say goodbye to your perfect lap time in minutes and hundredths of seconds (for example, "59"23"). And the turns will throw you for a curve, even if you are warned with those big red arrows on the types of turns you will be facing. The S-curve and hairpin turns were really tough and if you did not negotiate those turns, you slow down greatly. I did negotiate those turns about 69 percent of the time. Maximum top speed was 293 kilometers per hour, and since the maker, Sega, was Japanese, that is how they do it (no English system), so I had to figure out that this was about 170-180 mph at maximum speed. I liked the transitions of racing stages--in the pictures of towns, countries, cities. In a few of the stages, they even throw obstacles like dust and sand at the final stage, and even stone monuments. After you complete all 5 stages of racing, the computer determines the passing bonus and you finally get a chance to relax after all of that racing.
Yup. And note the heads are extra sprites, which is why they don't swap. In fact, you can see them move in relation to the car, as they are not attached.
I remembered being deeply impressed by this as a kid. The thing which stood out the most was the then lightning fast graphics. Nothing similar had been seen before back in 1986. The music still sounds as good today as it did back then.
Reminds me of when we got a high score we used to put fuk, fuq, cok, ass, pot, sex, etc. etc. Seems silly 30 years later but at the time I thought it was pretty cool.
Great footage of this classic arcade game, I remember as a kid finding this in an arcade the first summer this game came out, sitting in the big hydraulic version was epic. I couldn't get past stage 3 but kept trying anyways as I luved the music too.
WOW, this takes me back, could never clock it but still Great Game, wish i was back in the eightes, might go out and buy a tesstorossa now ive seen this.
This was probably the first arcade game I ever played. Definitely the first I remember. Wish I had the arcade version instead of the 3D-ized version on Sega Classics Collection for PS2....
Great! Remember I went on a trip to the States, and on a certain night, everyone had left to go Planet Hollywood in Orland, except me, i stayed in the Hotel playing OutRun!!!! Lol!! Later on the same trip I did the same on a Daytona Usa machine that nedded 4 quarters for a play. What a good way to spent my dollars!! SEGA!
This game was awesome I remember when it first came out I would go to the arcade and spend all my money on it and the grapics for the time was unreal THIS GAME ROCKS!!!!!
The trick to clocking this game was to actually take your foot off the gas once in a while until a way through the traffic would open up. I remember seeing so many people in the arcade just put their foot to the floor the whole way and drift into other cars on the tight corners or smack into rocks
I remember playing this game a few times at a pizza parlor some 13 years ago. I love the music in it too. It definitely captures that 80s electropop sound.
I can afford to spout off because we held an Outrun contest in the arcade where I worked many years ago. Its all about knowing the turns and timing those turns.
Greatest driving game OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!! This arcade game took more of my student grant than 4 years of alcohol abuse ... How many of you broke the magical 5 minute barrier? My best time 4.58.4 ..... Still one of my greatest achievement ever...... and i'm 42.
I've finished with 40 second left in the early 90's at an arcade gallery, in less than 5 minutes. Anyway I had no way of'"documenting" it, but I think that's kind of a super hi-score!!!
Remember having a running battle with STU for two weeks in Tenerife 1987. Every time I turned up to play he had beat my score (I was BRI). I beat his score with only a few days holiday remaining and he (or anyone else), never beat my final score. I think he probably flew home but as far as I was concerned I was the champion. Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is the one I used to play.
Outrun was an ...outrage! This was the 1st video game I played where it just ended! Every other game, we played until we died 3 times - so we could play as long as we stayed alive. I remember being angry that the computer just decided to end it and take my quarter. The reward for doing well on other video games was that you kept playing; the reward for this one (if you did well) was that you lost your quarter. Wait, I'm still mad!
I know what you mean, this was the first and only game I have seen where literally, you feel like you can be driving too fast, and the scenery comes up so quick its starts to freak you out like you could crash.
OutRun was thet very first game I ever played that cost $1. A Putt Putt got the cockpit version of this in early 1987, and I remember there was a LONG line waiting to play it.
The bowling alley near where I went to law school had one of these. My friend and I used to play hooky from class, go bowling and play this game all the time. Man, I was young then.....
So those of you who remember playing this back in the day will laugh at this. I literally just loaded it up in MAME and played it for the first time in at least 25 years or so. I kept popping out into MAME and trying to adjust the graphics settings, as I just KNEW this game had better graphics back in the day! It ROCKED back then, but wow, it is just so pixelated and unrealistic now in comparison to Need For Speed, Hot Pursuit for my PS3. How far we have come.
The anount of 50ps I wasted on this game - a small fortune I can tell you. Still - learned to drive that way and now teach IT because it was so cool. It reminds me of all those holidays by the beach or at Butlins! :)
Omg, I played this when I was about 5 years old. I'm 22 now, can't remember what those are called but I played this on pc along with other games that seems like arcade games
with the homebrew channel...you can get all emulators: NES, SNES, SEga genesis, N64, gameboy color, GBA, SCUMM VM(dont know what it is) and you can watch dvds you download the roms you want into your sd card and paly them on the wii, you can also download the games they offer in the virtual console so there is no need for wii points anymore since you can get things they do not even offer yet for free. Its really cool
