On this day in 1986 (Sept 25th) Sega put OutRun in Japanese arcades.
Not a race with a podium. A red Ferrari, a girl in the passenger seat, five roads that split, a timer that does not care how pretty the coastline looks. You pick a route, you chase the horizon.
Which is why the Michael Bay / Sydney Sweeney movie is such a funny thing. The game barely has a story. Bay’s whole career is story, explosions, sunlight hitting metal. Sweeney’s producing, not even confirmed as the blonde in the car yet, and nobody’s said what the film is actually about. Cannonball Run with a Testarossa? A couple on the run? Two hours of drift and lens flare? I am still intrigued about this upcoming movie.
If you played OutRun in the arcade, which 8-bit or 16-bit port actually came closest?
ALT Out Run Arcade game flyer from 1986