Out Run

The original arcade version of Out Run was a landmark in arcading history, boasting large, colourful, scaled sprites with fast, smooth gameplay and a memorable soundtrack. Probe, creators of the Amiga version, appeared to have overlooked all of these things!

Although the interface resembled the Atari ST version, the rest of the graphics weren't exactly the same. So it's possible that the Amiga version wasn't just another lame ST port, which was normally a good excuse for a bad Amiga game.

The arcade version had an original feature that allowed you to choose one of three pieces of music before you started the race. Probe probably thought the converted music was so dire that you would opt to turn the music off! As such, no music select screen was present and only two of the three main themes were converted to the Amiga.

The arcade version had plenty of scenery whizzing by the track as you raced from stage to stage, to help generate a feeling of speed. The Amiga version had sparse detail, which begs the question of why did it take so long to load between each stage?

It would take another three years before the Amiga had a similar looking car racing game that showed what could be done. That game was Lotus Turbo Challenge 2.

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There are two different versions of the hideous intro, one for the Sega release and one for the U.S. Gold release.

The Unused folder contains a version of the soundtrack that includes an unfinished version of subsong 3 (Passing Breeze).


 * Updates : Sunday 25 February 2001 (XtC): Added to collection
 * Monday 06 April 2015 (XtC): Added full version of JCB soundtrack and an alternate intro from the Sega version.