+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)
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.
Not only is it not sexist, if you live in the UK (where the driver side is on the right), the woman is the driver. Cries of “sexism!” and “racism!” have lost all meaning these days (thanks to all the cries of wolf).
Yeah i mean what is the hell was that all about? I went back thinking i miss heard, nope he just went full dum dum. These ism/ist's have to chill for a time now, people are just using them far too irresponsibly. Still appreciated the video though 👍
@@franciscor390 And the comment about the world ending appeared to refer to Trump and/or Brexit as this was made in 2016. Love NN anyway. It did make me laugh as there has been such an over-reaction to Trump and Brexit. Hopefully, we will all laugh together about it in 30 years. Assuming anybody is around then ;) Maybe if NN and I are around I will follow up to this comment then :)
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.
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
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!
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
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!
1:32 You found that "playable"? On Spectrum "playable" were titles like "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy" etc. - but surely not such atrocious "port" of "Outrun". Maybe you meant "...having no other choice"?
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.
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.
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...
Thank you for this gift, you should checkout Outrun on Nintendo 3DS prob the best I've ever played, with new coloured cars that have improved handling / speed. It also has a 3D feature that looks good. Of course the sit down with pistons is very nice, I've actually played on an enclosed sit-down back in the day, this is the rarer version, I think it might be a Japanese machine?
Oh, all the memories! I played this game every weekend in the arcade. It was the full sit-in moving machine and absolutely the most amazing thing *ever*.
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.
frankly, I'm a little disappointed you didn't even mention the 3DS version, which does include a exact replica of the original arcade version, as well as an updated version that runs at 60FPS, and included two brand new music tracks. Next time, I would suggest you do a little more research.
New to his videos? This just joins an existing long list where even the most fundamental research is missing, yet is presented as something of an authority on the subject matter.
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)
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!
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.
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 🤣
I remember... I was 10 years Old... I had a Pocket of 10ps... Blackpool...1985 BOOOOM! WTF ARE THOOOOSE! Full versions of OutRun & SpaceHarrier side by side... 50p a Game??!? ..... DAAAAAAAAD, I NEED CASH! AMAZING.... HOT AS HEELLL, THE BASS WAS PUMPING.... I WAS SHIT AT IT.....
Outrun 2 in all it`s guises : Outrun 2 Arcade, Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast, Outrun 2 SE etc ................. one of, if not, the greatest, Arcade style Racer ever methinks
played the normal sitdown version and eagerly awaited for the spectrum port, reading how it was technically a difficult port, and no one was surprised that it didn't quite come out as a nice soft souffle ..... oh and you DIDN'T mention the free soundtrack on the other tape! TCH basically i was RUBBISH at it, barely making it to the SECOND LEVEL!!! not the level of rubbishness as i was playing DAYTONA 8{
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.
great video as usual! I love showing my nephew's your videos. They are 19 and 17 years old and thoroughly convinced that an OLD game is COD Modern Warfare 2, and that each and every COD is the next greatest game of all time. I don't know why this bothers me, but it really does. I'm 34 and started my gaming life on a 2600. They are in their teens and started out with a super Nintendo, and have absolutely no respect for their roots. They don't even get nostalgic playing old SNES games. They consider those games to be nothing more than a time killer until COD arrived. I tried to explain Doom and its significance to the world of FPSs but again they don't care who invented what. They said it doesn't matter who came up with FPSs, COD would have done it eventually, and done it better. These kids have the nerve to wear shirts proclaiming things like "Uber Gamer" "Die Hard (back off filthy casuals)", and yes, they are that kind of nerds. Anyway, I got sick of trying to explain that the world doesn't revolve around COD, and just reccomended they watch some of your videos if they don't want to be called out as liars while wearing those dumb shirts. As it turns out, the older one did watch a few of your videos. He liked them and that led to a few other videos which led him to ask me about The Elder Scrolls games. After a short explanation I gave him a copy of Skyrim and what do you know? he liked it! It's his first non COD game in years and hopefully his new found curiosity will propel him and his brother out of the shit gutter that is rabid COD fanboy-ism. It's all thanks to your videos too! You sparked just enough interest to make him curious, and as far as I'm concerned, that's all it takes. Finally, now every family gathering or holiday party won't be spent playing COD. With any luck maybe, just maybe we can play something different. Anything at all... Thanks again man!
Only 12, started with a GameCube. Yet I get nostalgia from Genesis and Super Nintendo games. How the hell do I get nostalgia from playing them but your nephews who literally started with the SNES don't?
well i'm 32 and my 5 yo nephew appreciate the classics just as much as new games. i hope he stays this way when he grows up because i want to play age of empires, starcraft and diablo with him and those games are a bit too difficult for a 5 year old. and i want to be able to play games with him without boring my self to death from holding back too. ugh i hate it.
Just got it on Nintendo Switch......class!.......need Turbo Outrun next......used to play it in the moveable car in the Arcade back in the day....then i used to play Guerilla War, Ghost n' Goblins, Shinobi et al. On another note.....just saw Supercup Football in the vid, by Tomy, the toy Santy never brought.....ah well.....the NES a few years later more than made up for it. I opened it up a few days before Christmas unknown to my mother, who worked and saved for it.......God bless her......lucky i did.....Why?....you might be wondering....well, it was before Xmas 1990, Western Ireland.......the UK & Ireland use a 3 pin plug......so when i opened the box, and super analysed everything....low and behold, the power cable had no plug at the end of it....so i went looking around the cupboards for a spare plug, found it, then set about wiring it up ...blue wire=neutral, brown=live, green/yellow=earth.......connected the cables up,then pressed the power button.......the little red light came on.........the rush............BUT....nothing appearing on the screen, queue manual channel changing...no remote back then......then manual tuning in on UHF on a spare channel............BINGO!!!.....it slowly appeared with every twist of the knob, til finally i got the picture in perfect focus, it was the Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combi cartridge screen.........about 35 secs later......i killed my first goomba, and hit a question block to collect a power-up mushroom.........aged 41 now........i'm still in the game!
when he had a spectrum i had an atari falcon. but before that had a SFM, STE, Spectrum 48, Dragon 31. Still have the STE and Dragon. i remember playing the moving arcade outrun and topgun at Trocadero London which i frequented lots at funland, segaworld back in the late 80s to mid 90s. after the falcon i got onto PCs then build my own gaming pc' sand still do
Great video! I hold OutRun dear in my heart :) One note though! No biggie, but I think you meant to say the original Xbox, and not the Xbox 360, when you talked about OutRun 2! Or am I wrong? I don't believe it was released on 360... does OutRun Online count?
Great video about my most favorite oldschool arcade racer. It still is my favorite racer from the good old times. I never knew the Atari ST version did not had forks in the road, as the Amiga version was based on this game, but did had the forks in the road, but it did not matter, as the game was much less fun to play than the Commodore 64 version! Graphics does not matter when a racing game feels slow and cumbersome. The MegaDrive version on the other hand did surprise me how good it was, except for the sprite design and collor, but it still resambles the game good enough, and i just loved how much better it played than on the Amiga. It was faster, more responsive, and much more fun, and the extra tune did grew on me. Do you have a Nintendo 3DS (or NEW 3DS)? the OutRun port from M2 is the best i've played, even better than the Japanese Saturn version. I do realize the Saturn version has the proper Testarossa in it, and the 3DS version has a close aproximation of that car, but the 3D effect, and the 60 fps frame rate combined with all those unlockable extras makes me come back to the 3DS version even more so than playing it on my Saturn (Japanese version, also with 60 fps, but you have to unlock it) Thanks for sharing, thumbs up!
OutRun 2019 its almost 2019 and we have lame cars!! not awesome ones like in the game if only the knew back in 1993 when this game was made that the future was going to be so lame!!!
what? are you high? don't get me wrong, i love me a f40, diablo or f1, but we have TONS of awesome cars nowadays. in fact, we're much better off because we have a ton of awesome AFFORDABLE cars.
Amstrad CPC screenshot top left!!!! 1986 Arcade started off, eventually onto computer (with tape soundtrack included), Master System, Atari ST and then Turbo Out Run (1989) and finally OutRunners (late 1990's?).... PASSING BREEZE!!! BTW Sega Saturn's version is Arcade perfect and Xbox's (Original) OutRun2 had an option to play 1986 OutRun (if you knew the code NINETEEN86), along with ALL SONGS etc....
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
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!
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)
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!!!
🤓 thx for the video, I just found out about the xbox versions, now im going to need to get an xbox heehee 😸 I remember back in the day there was one sitdown carseat that when u make tight turns the whole car would lean as well. There was also a sequal at the arcade called Turbo. I had a sega console but for some reason at the time I could not find the Outrun cartridge for sale at any store! 😒🚗🚩
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?
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!
I played the DOS PC version but I had a Tandy 1000 computer which allowed for far superior sound over the standard PC speaker and the music sounded great. The Tandy 1000 sound chip is similar to what the Sega Master System had that wasn't the FM sound mode. I'm sure if you played the DOS version through a Tandy 1000 PC then you would have thought more highly of the DOS version.
Do you have a 3DS? If you do, buy the Outrun 3D port, re-made by the masters at M2 and it's arcade perfect with extra bonuses (which you can turn off for the real experience) and it's in 3D (glorius 60fps, sprite 3D!). I recommend it!
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...
Quite unsurprising that home computers/consoles of the day couldn't do this game justice. The Arcade hardware used 2x Motorola 68000@10mhz and A 4mhz Z80 likely used as a sound processor. Even so, the Lotus games were smooth and therefore this also could have been with a decently programmed port. The PC speaker sounds terrible on later PC games but does have a certain charm on the older games from the early to mid eighties, even though it's just a single tone beeper essentially.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Worst part about the Speccy conversion was knowing that it could have been so much better. Super Hang On, Wec Le Mans, Enduro Racer were all much better and from the same year. There was no excuse for this poor port in 1987.
I don't agree. DOS outrun was the first computer game that I ever owned.... arcade@home awesome!! a:>outrun (got the instructions how to play the game by phone by a friend!
My first experience with Outrun was the full sit down cabinet in the arcade as a kid. It was quite an experience in its day that wasn't really replicated until Sega themselves made Daytona USA. There are better more accurate home ports these days but I still love the Genesis version. The GBA had a shockingly good version end the Saturn and 3DS versions are of course stellar. Also one sexism joke and everyone in the comments loses their minds, calm your tits people.
Got a 3DS? Then get Outrun 3D from the EShop. Its as perfect a port as you could hope for, with moving cabinet emulation and an "authentic to the arcade" 30fps mode if for some reason you're tired of your eyes and wish to melt them. The 3D adds nicely to the game too.
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 ;)
I just love this channels videos, but that jab at the 80s and an artistic element of the game really stuck out. You may as well accuse Speed Racer of the same thing. Never mind Speed is the trained race car driver, has a family legacy behind him, and the Mach 5 has all those wacky buttons you need to identify immediately in any given situation (not having to look at the buttons to use them helps). Though that leaves out Trixie helping out with driving on longer cross country races and is pretty capable there. Granted Outrun seems sparse on background story details and it is open to some interpretation, but to assume sexism right out of the gate leaves out a lot of other possibilities. The dude could be the one who ones the car, the gal may actually prefer just riding and enjoying the scenery vs. having to focus on the road and have to tune some of the nice scenery out, some other possibilities, etc. As far as I can tell, it's just a dude that wants to take his girl on a drive, well a fairly fast paced and competitive one at that. It's just unnecessary to just shove it in like that and is a big issue - assuming it's an existent issue - to compress down to a single sentence like that. I'd want some reasoning or justification for that opinion, but it's already out of place in the video as it is. Plus accusing an entire era is a problem since you're lumping together people and events into a single soundbite and expressing your judgement of them. If we were talking about those racing arcade games with bikini clad girls waving checkered flags, it would have been more plausible. However, a lot of them were 90s games (some of the newer ones may have the bikini girls as well), so decades/eras seem to have little to do with how sexist something can (perceivably) be. The rest of the video was pretty solid though.
That struck me as weird as well :/ Why is it sexist that you play as a guy driving his girlfriend around? Let me guess, it would've been better for two non-binary, robot, plutonic friends to be aided to the finish line by an automatic car that no one has direct control over, and the first place prize is the key to your own safe space?
One3rdNinja sheesh no one said all of that. The first mention of sexism and then it has to be the most exaggerated comparison ever, quit bitching lmao.
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.
The FM on the reg plate was for Probe Software's (now sadly deceased) programmer Fergus McGovern - Not for the STFM.
Streching a 4:3 image is punishable by law!
Not if you stretch it to 16.9 then select wide zoom if available 😀.
"Unless we're all dead by then, which is looking very likely" - Covid19 predictions from 2016!
Yes, as soon as he said that I thought, "If you only knew!"
Covid19 is barely killing anyone.
Oh, I was thinks geopolitics or climate crises, my you might be right.
Thats one way to end a video, predict the deaths of all your viewers. lol. Nice Video BTW :-)
It made me chuckle. I only think a handful of viewers possibly this side of the water understand the comment :)
Magical Sound Shower is the greatest video game audio track of all time.
The Saturn version is a perfect arcade port. But that was much much later.
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.
3DS version is the definitive version now. M2 did a hell of job.
if Out Run was released on 32X in 1994 or 1995 it would’ve been the 1st perfect port before the Saturn version
+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)
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.
Male driver and female passenger is sexist?! Ookay, could you tell that to my wife? For once, I may be able to have a drink when we go to a party.
Not only is it not sexist, if you live in the UK (where the driver side is on the right), the woman is the driver.
Cries of “sexism!” and “racism!” have lost all meaning these days (thanks to all the cries of wolf).
Words can lose their meaning through overuse and misuse.
A white male at that 😱
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Yeah i mean what is the hell was that all about? I went back thinking i miss heard, nope he just went full dum dum.
These ism/ist's have to chill for a time now, people are just using them far too irresponsibly.
Still appreciated the video though 👍
@@franciscor390 And the comment about the world ending appeared to refer to Trump and/or Brexit as this was made in 2016. Love NN anyway. It did make me laugh as there has been such an over-reaction to Trump and Brexit. Hopefully, we will all laugh together about it in 30 years. Assuming anybody is around then ;) Maybe if NN and I are around I will follow up to this comment then :)
Um, what about Outrunners?
@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.
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.
+ignacio More info if you don't mind.
+The Mass Debator Here is all the info you need for running it github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki
***** Thanks!
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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
One of my favourite arcade games ever. What a shock when I saw it for the very first time!
Just simply incredible amount of nostalgia and kick ass for SEGA Master System fanboys here in the States👌💯🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮
It's curious that this video omits the best versions, the Saturn port of Outrun and Outrun 2006 on the original Xbox.
I have a number of versions of this game including the PC-Engine version which I quite enjoy.
I love the originals, but I loved the arcade 3D version. Many happy memories of playing with my friends.
30 years!?! I now REALLY feel old...
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!
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
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!
I'm pretty sure the version you keep showing as the Arcade ROM, isn't...
Looks like the Saturn Version...
The DOS version sounded a lot better on the Tandy 1000 because of the Tandy sound card.
1:32 You found that "playable"? On Spectrum "playable" were titles like "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy" etc. - but surely not such atrocious "port" of "Outrun". Maybe you meant "...having no other choice"?
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.
I love how Peter Griffin is driving the car in the Atari ST version.
I love Final Freeway 2 on iOS. It's a great Outrun clone!
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.
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.
I don't get it, what's sexist about a female passenger?
Apparently he’s been infected with feminism. A sissy nerd.
アウトランが すきな ひとへ。ありがとう^^
What about the Arcade perfect Saturn version???!!!!
The Saturn version is a perfect arcade port agreed
I literally saw a copy of this TODAY and didn't pick it up
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...
Thank you for this gift, you should checkout Outrun on Nintendo 3DS prob the best I've ever played, with new coloured cars that have improved handling / speed. It also has a 3D feature that looks good. Of course the sit down with pistons is very nice, I've actually played on an enclosed sit-down back in the day, this is the rarer version, I think it might be a Japanese machine?
That is one version I really do want to play. You've reminded me!
Can confirm: extremely good version.
Remember Outun in the arcades. Childhood memories are flooding back lol.
The PC version of that is good too, having not played it on the Xbox I can't compare but I have to say it is my favourite Outrun game so far.
Oh, all the memories! I played this game every weekend in the arcade. It was the full sit-in moving machine and absolutely the most amazing thing *ever*.
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.
That's what you get when US Gold get the conversion rights and give the conversion to Probe Software to handle 😭
frankly, I'm a little disappointed you didn't even mention the 3DS version, which does include a exact replica of the original arcade version, as well as an updated version that runs at 60FPS, and included two brand new music tracks. Next time, I would suggest you do a little more research.
New to his videos?
This just joins an existing long list where even the most fundamental research is missing, yet is presented as something of an authority on the subject matter.
I always enjoyed the music to Outrun back then.
no mention of the OutRunners game ? i thought it was part of the outrun saga...
it's a shame the coast to coast didn't come with the genesis version as well
It's a crime that outrun wasn't made on the sega 32x alongside afterburner and space harrier, which were superb versions.
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.
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)
You forgot the awesome Saturn version.
OutRun the ultimate classic!
What about the GBA port? That was my fave game on the gba :)
Why is it sexist to have a female passenger in your car?
Is it sexist to be merely a man?
Patrick Bateman According to Nostalgia Vag, yes!
I believe the sexist part is that you can't change it.
Ps3 outrun 2000 can't believe you left it out
pc version: these are EGA Graphics, not VGA
Great video, Nostalgia Nerd! Love meeting other OutRun fans on TH-cam!
Ugh, 4:3 stretched to 16:9.
No need.
Distortion just ruins it.
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!
Out Run on C-64 Datasette was the first game I ever owned.
Those 2 arcade endings are adorable, I never knew about them!
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.
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 🤣
the ending track gave me an eargasm. jesus that was beautiful
The 3DS version of Out Run is also pretty good
This version is my favorite! ❤️
Excelent commentary and video,,,,,Saludos Mundo Makina......Great GAME,Fenomenal and Marvelous Game,,,,Sega Saturn Excellent Version......
I have a original Outrun upright arcade game myself, still my nr 1 driving game !
I remember...
I was 10 years Old... I had a Pocket of 10ps...
Blackpool...1985
BOOOOM!
WTF ARE THOOOOSE!
Full versions of OutRun & SpaceHarrier side by side...
50p a Game??!?
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DAAAAAAAAD, I NEED CASH!
AMAZING.... HOT AS HEELLL, THE BASS WAS PUMPING.... I WAS SHIT AT IT.....
Outrun 2 in all it`s guises : Outrun 2 Arcade, Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast, Outrun 2 SE etc ................. one of, if not, the greatest, Arcade style Racer ever methinks
played the normal sitdown version and eagerly awaited for the spectrum port, reading how it was technically a difficult port, and no one was surprised that it didn't quite come out as a nice soft souffle ..... oh and you DIDN'T mention the free soundtrack on the other tape!
TCH
basically i was RUBBISH at it, barely making it to the SECOND LEVEL!!!
not the level of rubbishness as i was playing DAYTONA 8{
i was about to upload a video about this today
until i saw this
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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.
great video as usual! I love showing my nephew's your videos. They are 19 and 17 years old and thoroughly convinced that an OLD game is COD Modern Warfare 2, and that each and every COD is the next greatest game of all time. I don't know why this bothers me, but it really does. I'm 34 and started my gaming life on a 2600. They are in their teens and started out with a super Nintendo, and have absolutely no respect for their roots. They don't even get nostalgic playing old SNES games. They consider those games to be nothing more than a time killer until COD arrived. I tried to explain Doom and its significance to the world of FPSs but again they don't care who invented what. They said it doesn't matter who came up with FPSs, COD would have done it eventually, and done it better. These kids have the nerve to wear shirts proclaiming things like "Uber Gamer" "Die Hard (back off filthy casuals)", and yes, they are that kind of nerds. Anyway, I got sick of trying to explain that the world doesn't revolve around COD, and just reccomended they watch some of your videos if they don't want to be called out as liars while wearing those dumb shirts. As it turns out, the older one did watch a few of your videos. He liked them and that led to a few other videos which led him to ask me about The Elder Scrolls games. After a short explanation I gave him a copy of Skyrim and what do you know? he liked it! It's his first non COD game in years and hopefully his new found curiosity will propel him and his brother out of the shit gutter that is rabid COD fanboy-ism. It's all thanks to your videos too! You sparked just enough interest to make him curious, and as far as I'm concerned, that's all it takes. Finally, now every family gathering or holiday party won't be spent playing COD. With any luck maybe, just maybe we can play something different. Anything at all... Thanks again man!
Only 12, started with a GameCube. Yet I get nostalgia from Genesis and Super Nintendo games. How the hell do I get nostalgia from playing them but your nephews who literally started with the SNES don't?
well i'm 32 and my 5 yo nephew appreciate the classics just as much as new games.
i hope he stays this way when he grows up because i want to play age of empires, starcraft and diablo with him and those games are a bit too difficult for a 5 year old.
and i want to be able to play games with him without boring my self to death from holding back too. ugh i hate it.
Just got it on Nintendo Switch......class!.......need Turbo Outrun next......used to play it in the moveable car in the Arcade back in the day....then i used to play Guerilla War, Ghost n' Goblins, Shinobi et al. On another note.....just saw Supercup Football in the vid, by Tomy, the toy Santy never brought.....ah well.....the NES a few years later more than made up for it. I opened it up a few days before Christmas unknown to my mother, who worked and saved for it.......God bless her......lucky i did.....Why?....you might be wondering....well, it was before Xmas 1990, Western Ireland.......the UK & Ireland use a 3 pin plug......so when i opened the box, and super analysed everything....low and behold, the power cable had no plug at the end of it....so i went looking around the cupboards for a spare plug, found it, then set about wiring it up ...blue wire=neutral, brown=live, green/yellow=earth.......connected the cables up,then pressed the power button.......the little red light came on.........the rush............BUT....nothing appearing on the screen, queue manual channel changing...no remote back then......then manual tuning in on UHF on a spare channel............BINGO!!!.....it slowly appeared with every twist of the knob, til finally i got the picture in perfect focus, it was the Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combi cartridge screen.........about 35 secs later......i killed my first goomba, and hit a question block to collect a power-up mushroom.........aged 41 now........i'm still in the game!
I Love this game!
when he had a spectrum i had an atari falcon. but before that had a SFM, STE, Spectrum 48, Dragon 31. Still have the STE and Dragon. i remember playing the moving arcade outrun and topgun at Trocadero London which i frequented lots at funland, segaworld back in the late 80s to mid 90s. after the falcon i got onto PCs then build my own gaming pc' sand still do
Great video! I hold OutRun dear in my heart :)
One note though! No biggie, but I think you meant to say the original Xbox, and not the Xbox 360, when you talked about OutRun 2! Or am I wrong? I don't believe it was released on 360... does OutRun Online count?
Great video about my most favorite oldschool arcade racer. It still is my favorite racer from the good old times. I never knew the Atari ST version did not had forks in the road, as the Amiga version was based on this game, but did had the forks in the road, but it did not matter, as the game was much less fun to play than the Commodore 64 version! Graphics does not matter when a racing game feels slow and cumbersome. The MegaDrive version on the other hand did surprise me how good it was, except for the sprite design and collor, but it still resambles the game good enough, and i just loved how much better it played than on the Amiga. It was faster, more responsive, and much more fun, and the extra tune did grew on me.
Do you have a Nintendo 3DS (or NEW 3DS)? the OutRun port from M2 is the best i've played, even better than the Japanese Saturn version. I do realize the Saturn version has the proper Testarossa in it, and the 3DS version has a close aproximation of that car, but the 3D effect, and the 60 fps frame rate combined with all those unlockable extras makes me come back to the 3DS version even more so than playing it on my Saturn (Japanese version, also with 60 fps, but you have to unlock it)
Thanks for sharing, thumbs up!
Outrun... Saw it first time in the late 90's in an arcade in the mall where I lived. Loved the game ever since.
OutRun 2019
its almost 2019 and we have lame cars!! not awesome ones like in the game
if only the knew back in 1993 when this game was made that the future was going to be so lame!!!
what? are you high?
don't get me wrong, i love me a f40, diablo or f1, but we have TONS of awesome cars nowadays. in fact, we're much better off because we have a ton of awesome AFFORDABLE cars.
BLEURGH! Why is everything stretched!?
Amstrad CPC screenshot top left!!!! 1986 Arcade started off, eventually onto computer (with tape soundtrack included), Master System, Atari ST and then Turbo Out Run (1989) and finally OutRunners (late 1990's?).... PASSING BREEZE!!!
BTW Sega Saturn's version is Arcade perfect and Xbox's (Original) OutRun2 had an option to play 1986 OutRun (if you knew the code NINETEEN86), along with ALL SONGS etc....
Mwhahah, "..played a little like a bag of mangled dog food left open(?)" mwhahhahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!
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
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!
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)
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!!!
🤓 thx for the video, I just found out about the xbox versions, now im going to need to get an xbox heehee 😸 I remember back in the day there was one sitdown carseat that when u make tight turns the whole car would lean as well. There was also a sequal at the arcade called Turbo. I had a sega console but for some reason at the time I could not find the Outrun cartridge for sale at any store! 😒🚗🚩
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?
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!
I played the DOS PC version but I had a Tandy 1000 computer which allowed for far superior sound over the standard PC speaker and the music sounded great. The Tandy 1000 sound chip is similar to what the Sega Master System had that wasn't the FM sound mode. I'm sure if you played the DOS version through a Tandy 1000 PC then you would have thought more highly of the DOS version.
Do you have a 3DS? If you do, buy the Outrun 3D port, re-made by the masters at M2 and it's arcade perfect with extra bonuses (which you can turn off for the real experience) and it's in 3D (glorius 60fps, sprite 3D!). I recommend it!
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...
Quite unsurprising that home computers/consoles of the day couldn't do this game justice. The Arcade hardware used 2x Motorola 68000@10mhz and A 4mhz Z80 likely used as a sound processor. Even so, the Lotus games were smooth and therefore this also could have been with a decently programmed port. The PC speaker sounds terrible on later PC games but does have a certain charm on the older games from the early to mid eighties, even though it's just a single tone beeper essentially.
My first memory of Outrun was on Commodore 64
Also I notice you have something to nit pick about with every version
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.
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.
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).
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.
Worst part about the Speccy conversion was knowing that it could have been so much better. Super Hang On, Wec Le Mans, Enduro Racer were all much better and from the same year. There was no excuse for this poor port in 1987.
Wowz the C64 version looked Decent!
Isn't the 360 version the same one released for the original XBOX (Outrun coast 2 coast 2006) with improved graphics?
I don't agree. DOS outrun was the first computer game that I ever owned.... arcade@home awesome!! a:>outrun (got the instructions how to play the game by phone by a friend!
My first experience with Outrun was the full sit down cabinet in the arcade as a kid. It was quite an experience in its day that wasn't really replicated until Sega themselves made Daytona USA. There are better more accurate home ports these days but I still love the Genesis version. The GBA had a shockingly good version end the Saturn and 3DS versions are of course stellar. Also one sexism joke and everyone in the comments loses their minds, calm your tits people.
Got a 3DS? Then get Outrun 3D from the EShop. Its as perfect a port as you could hope for, with moving cabinet emulation and an "authentic to the arcade" 30fps mode if for some reason you're tired of your eyes and wish to melt them. The 3D adds nicely to the game too.
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 ;)
"Sexism" give me a break.
I just love this channels videos, but that jab at the 80s and an artistic element of the game really stuck out. You may as well accuse Speed Racer of the same thing. Never mind Speed is the trained race car driver, has a family legacy behind him, and the Mach 5 has all those wacky buttons you need to identify immediately in any given situation (not having to look at the buttons to use them helps). Though that leaves out Trixie helping out with driving on longer cross country races and is pretty capable there. Granted Outrun seems sparse on background story details and it is open to some interpretation, but to assume sexism right out of the gate leaves out a lot of other possibilities. The dude could be the one who ones the car, the gal may actually prefer just riding and enjoying the scenery vs. having to focus on the road and have to tune some of the nice scenery out, some other possibilities, etc. As far as I can tell, it's just a dude that wants to take his girl on a drive, well a fairly fast paced and competitive one at that. It's just unnecessary to just shove it in like that and is a big issue - assuming it's an existent issue - to compress down to a single sentence like that. I'd want some reasoning or justification for that opinion, but it's already out of place in the video as it is. Plus accusing an entire era is a problem since you're lumping together people and events into a single soundbite and expressing your judgement of them.
If we were talking about those racing arcade games with bikini clad girls waving checkered flags, it would have been more plausible. However, a lot of them were 90s games (some of the newer ones may have the bikini girls as well), so decades/eras seem to have little to do with how sexist something can (perceivably) be.
The rest of the video was pretty solid though.
That struck me as weird as well :/ Why is it sexist that you play as a guy driving his girlfriend around?
Let me guess, it would've been better for two non-binary, robot, plutonic friends to be aided to the finish line by an automatic car that no one has direct control over, and the first place prize is the key to your own safe space?
One3rdNinja sheesh no one said all of that. The first mention of sexism and then it has to be the most exaggerated comparison ever, quit bitching lmao.
....triggered.
It just sounded like a lame joke to me...but whatever.
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.
i did an outrun remake on dreams ps4, "fullGame" thought you might like to see (-;
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