OutRun (ARC)

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OutRun
OutRun - ARC - USA.jpg
Platform: Arcade
Year: 1986
Developer: Sega AM2
For other games in the series, see OutRun.

OutRun is a third-person driving game where you drive a Ferrari Testarossa down various roads in a race against time. As you reach the end of a road, you come to a fork where you can merge left for an easier road or right for a harder road. You must avoid other cars on the road and the numerous buildings and structures on the sides of the road. Crashing slows you down and wastes precious time. You can adjust the car's speed by moving between high and low gear.

OutRun was a highly successful game due in part to the beautiful graphics that fly past you at dizzying speed, and the sit-down arcade cabinet shaped like a car which offered force-feedback by moving as you turned sharply and shaking when you crashed. Stand-up cabinets were also made.

Screenshots

OutRun - ARC - Title.png

The title graphic.

OutRun - ARC - Get Ready.png

The starting line. An iconic scene for racing gamers.

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Throwing up sand along the beach.

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Well that can't be good!

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Speeding under a tunnel of columns.

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The game map.

Music

OutRun made history by being the first game to let the player pick a radio station to listen to. When you deposit a credit, the game lets you use the steering wheel to choose one of three songs to play in the background. On sit-down cabinets, this music was played in stereo to two speakers behind the head rest.

The music was composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and while there are only four songs, the three main driving songs are quite long. They do have an odd repetition near the end where, rather than repeating the entire track, they only repeat the last bit of each tune.

The song Last Wave exists in two forms, one with the wave sound effects played in the background as heard in the game, and one with just the music.

Recording

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Title

Composer

Length

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01 Splash Wave Hiroshi Kawaguchi 6:09
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02 Passing Breeze Hiroshi Kawaguchi 6:00
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03 Magical Sound Shower Hiroshi Kawaguchi 6:08
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04 Last Wave Hiroshi Kawaguchi 1:32
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05 Last Wave (No Waves) Hiroshi Kawaguchi 1:32
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(Source)

Credits

(Source: High Scores, game lacks traditional credits.)

Back when games were made in this era, game credits were usually uncommon, but sometimes the developers would sneak their names in the high scores. "MIY" in the high score list is probably short for Kawaguchi's first family name, Miyauchi.

Albums

S.S.T. Band: Live

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1990-11-21

OutRun (Soundtrack)

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1991-02-21

Sega Piano Nocturne

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2005-01-26

Game Rip

Format

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The VGM rips were logged using MAME and recorded with VGM Input v0.40 in Winamp. A true program rip does not yet exist. Because the game has rather off timing near the ends of the songs, alternate rips were made with different timing.

Audio Devices

OutRun uses a YM2151 clocked at 4 MHz for music and the Sega PCM clocked at 4 MHz for sound effects and voice. One song in the game, Last Wave, uses both devices in tandem, the music uses the YM2151, while the roar of the waves uses the Sega PCM.

Releases

  Japan.svg   Japan
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Title: アウト ラン (OutRun)
Platform: Arcade
Released: 1986-09-20
Publisher: Sega
  USA.svg   USA
OutRun - ARC - USA.jpg
Title: OutRun
Platform: Arcade
Released: 1986-??-??
Publisher: Sega
  EU.svg   EU
BoxMissing.png
Title: OutRun
Platform: Arcade
Released: 1986-??-??
Publisher: Sega

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