Today is the 30th anniversary of Out Run's release, and

>>3510265
One of the best arcade games ever, and I only figured that out like 3 years ago.

>>3510265
What makes it one of the greatest driving games of all time?

My only gaming regret is that I wasn't around to experience Outrun in the arcades (I was like 2 years old in 86 and my parents hated video games)

But the Genesis port is great all the same

>>3510289
I wish they had made a 32x version of it. I feel the arcade is the most difficult one, every hard track has a crazy snake turn with vehicle memorization.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzsqx5uXmpA

When it released to arcades it was like nothing ever seen before.

>At the end of each stage, before the end-of-stage goal is reached, players are presented with a fork in the road; a unique innovation that, for the first time in the history of racing games, gave players a choice of which route they wished to take through the game. Out Run's game-play was both tight and instinctive and, together with the superb stage design and wonderfully realized sprite-scaled graphics, would completely revolutionize not just racing games, but arcade games in general.

>Out Run is still regarded as perhaps the finest arcade racer (and certainly the finest sprite-driven racer) of all time. This was especially true of the deluxe cabinet version, which featured a fully hydraulic tilting cabinet (resembling a red Ferrari Testarossa) and a powerful speaker system situated directly behind the player's head. The sublime music still captivates many fans today

In addition, the more I played it the more I realized that the first zone is an amazingly subtle tutorial stage. In how it introduces each of the various turns and road variations in sequence before the end of the stage

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>>3510293
Steeldrumcore fucking ROCKS

>>3510265

Synthwave ruined it.

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>>3510285

We have to celebrate by making a custom track for Canon Ball

Why haven't you don't this already

Why have you failed the legacy of Out Run and disgraced us all

>>3510265
>Today is the 30th anniversary of Out Run's release
Wait, really?

>>3510293
I wished there was a 32X port for years.
alas

on the other hand, the Genesis version isn't too terrible overall, even if far from perfect (has full-width roads unlike a bunch of ports, draws the road forks properly, handles pretty well, biggest issue is the lowish framerate and flicker)
the default difficulty settings are too easy though, possibly because the Genesis version may be limiting the amount of traffic on screen far more

Best way to play these days now (short of a cab) is either Cannonball or M2's 3DS version.

>>3510323
Nah.
It's got nice graphics, good music, and the handling and dodging and weaving is satisfying.
It's full of polish.

>>3510327
Last time I tried to use the track editor, the thing kept crashing on me.

>>3510293
>>3510372
>32x

Why? Its on the Saturn.

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Oh shit really
I just beat my first outrun route today on the 3ds release after years and years of trying on different versions
It's like poetry

Then it unlocked a "steering" mod and it just made the game piss easy

With its superior sprite scaling, mode 7 effects, and color palette, I often fantasize how great Outrun would have looked on the SNES. Alas! Being a Sega game there was literally zero chance of it happening.

The music would probably have to suffer, though. Maybe it was for the best

>>3510285
It's the worst. And the best. It's the only driving game.

IT WAS THE ANNIVERSARY OF A LOT OF SEGA GAMES IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS YOU JERK

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Splash Wave > Magical Sound Shower > Passing Breeze

Search your heart. You know it's true.

>>3510405
But this is the only one that matters.

>>3510432
MSS is my Jam

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>>3510432
Delete this

>>3510392
>mode 7 effects
That's no mode 7-like effect though, it would have been it the road was completely flat and you'd see the plane you're driving on rotate when turning. Outrun there are slopes and the ground don't rotate when turning.
Anyway, if you wanna know how outrun might have looked like on SNES, check the series Top gear.

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Happy birthday OutRun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9w7_7pjsao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIIrZJc70Wo

>>3510468
Damn, Last wave might be my favorite turne from this game. It's basically using as it's main instrument the thing FM synthesis can do the best -- Electric piano. With the wave samples playing on top of that, it truly is a heart-warming song.

>>3510392
>Being a Sega game there was literally zero chance of it happening.
We had plenty of Sega games on Nintendo consoles, mostly on the NES.

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>>3510556
You trying to KILL ME? Anyway Happy Birthday best game ever made.

Had no idea it was the anniversary today

Guess I'll give another drive-through and see if I can win on hardest settings.

A bit of Outrun on the C64/SID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GTSsR_mDC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXiwmQ4xf18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhAnqOx09ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-TNjPWYgBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9YjihYAC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0npmPyZe88

>>3510392
Is this guy trolling or does he really not understand sprite scaling and mode7?

>>3510640
They sound pretty meh, borderline bad at moments.
The PC Engine port sound better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1eNZJvvvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8OMZ3cBAws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5Ao72loto

>>3510556
>>3510594
I'm glad the gif at least loops now

>>3510374
Never knew about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozvhUlyXec
Everything about it seems solid except the music I'm not digging.

>>3510689
True, the arranged soundtrack don't sound that great. Anyway, here's the Outrun LP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADU3AwUYLlE

Love the series, the 3DS version is my personal favourite port of this one - looks and plays just brilliant.

>>3510297

>the finest sprite-driven racer

I would actually give that to Outrunners, by its own 80s standards the original looks great but Outrunners looks fucking insane, there's so much going on visually. I used to play it at the arcade and was bummed it never got any kind of port.

>>3510780
Outrunner did have a megadrive port though.

>>3510784

Oh yeah, that...I'd forgotten about it, now I remember why. It's a terrible port - forced split screen in all modes, bad control, underwhelming graphics. Fucking SEGA, couldn't wait literally one year for their 32-bit console to come out where they could do a 32-bit game justice.

>>3510797
One year is an eternity in terms of the video game industry

>>3510265
I liked rad mobile better

>>3510797

Also the 'voice clips', if you can even call them that, are goddamn horrendous. Music holds up nicely though, so that's good at least.

>>3510798

It is, but the Mega Drive already had three Out Run games released by that point, demand couldn't have been sky high, especially in 1994 when the console was barely hanging on. If they were adamant on getting it on there why not do a Sonic 3D Blast and do the port but put the 'real' version on the Saturn? All it got in the end was yet another port of the first game.

I like how at almost 300km/h you're merely passing by Beetles

>>3510817
Or really, any kind of home release. It seems like they completely gave up on the 2D games after the Saturn. And then made the jump to full 3D on the PS2, dropping all previous incarnations

Turbo Out Run is also pretty cool.

>>3511125
Best Outrun track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3gwqRBmnQ

Outrun 2006 is pretty awesome because it has the Turbo Outrun soundtrack in addition to the original game's.

>>3511125

It sometimes gets some heat for being 'more racing than driving' but music is literally 10/10. Always pick the Turbo Outrun tracks in Outrun 2006.

which is the best outrun?

is outrun 2006 good?

>>3511807
If you want the most modern version, with the most gameplay, 2006 is the way to go (Xbox is the best version but is stupidly expensive)

If you want the best, most arcade perfect version, that's on the Saturn as a Japan import.

>>3510319
No it didn't

>>3510265
never could get warm with outrun and god knows i have tried, i like outrun II a lot though. Sega should make another game in the series. It is time...

>>3512176
Have you played OutRunners? The driving style in that game is a little closer to OutRun 2, you might like it.

>>3512178
Likely they haven't since if they didn't see it in the arcades the only other opportunity was the crappy Genesis port

>>3510780
Man, OutRunners is probably the pinnacle of sprite scaling graphics games.
Amazing sense of style, completely wild and out there, brilliant soundtrack, pretty fine course design.

Had chills the first time I played it, what an amazing fucking game.

The Genesis port is such an embarrassment, but fucking nothing could match up to the System 32, particularly not the multi-screen variant used in OutRunners.
I just wish the port wasn't quite so lame.

>>3511134
man, I always loved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMwLUfwe_0 more

It's a shame that Turbo Outrun is another game that suffered from a somewhat weak Genesis port, blah.

>>3511807
2006 is awesome. My favorite driving game ever.

>>3511974
2006 Xbox is even better than the PC version?

>>3510468
Top comfy

I've got outrun 2004 on my PC, might have a race to celebrate.

>>3512469
>>3512474
fuck I mean 2006, all the comfy vibes turning off my brain

People give OCRemix a lot of shit but they have some good stuff. Well, it's hard to fuck up when the source material is that good.

Make sure you enable the 60fps.
https://youtu.be/ThIr9kyTpoY

>nobody linked Canonball yet
You dummies.

https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki

Has anyone here made any custom tracks in Layout btw?

>>3513038
Why bother when we have MAME?

>>3513140
Enjoy your 30fps and bloated emulator with input latency, I guess.

>>3513147
Enjoy your pale imitation of the real thing.

>>3513156
Do you also play Doom on DOS instead of the far superior GZDoom?

>>3510390
Which you can turn off for a good time.

>>3510265

Greatest of all time? But Pole Position came out 34 years ago.

>>3513250
>Pole Position
>not SEGA's Turbo a year earlier

>>3513289
Pole Position brought 3D racing into full effect. Tight controls and frame rate included. It's the daddy to all 3D racing games.

>>3513297
It also fucking sucks compared to OutRun.

>>3513297
I acknowledge that it may have had more overall innovation, but the presentation of Outrun is what makes it legendary for its time and more memorable. The atmosphere, the changing scenery, the selectable paths, it was just gorgeously smooth

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>>3513250
>not understanding the difference between a racing game and a driving game

>>3510265
That's a pretty neat trick clipping cars without wrecking. Do you they cheated much?

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>>3511807
>>3511974
>>3512469
The original non-2006/C2C Xbox version is the best home version of OutRun 2. Better graphics, no slipstream bullshit and has the Daytona 2/SCUD tracks, as well as the original 1986 OutRun as an unlockable.

How's OutRun Online Arcade?

>>3513038
>Has anyone here made any custom tracks in Layout btw?

ITS LIKE I WAS SAYING we have to do this, I was thinking of replacing the clouds with swastikas and the trees with erect penises, but I think we should consider other suggestions

>>3514154
Non-existent, unless you have a time machine

>>3510392
Outrun was released on almost every system possible. Different sega in those days

>>3514294
Sega games weren't released on Nintendo consoles by Sega themselves, they were ported by third parties. And this didn't happen on the SNES. Presumably because the Master System wasn't real competition to the NES but the Genesis was.

>>3514154
It's an extremely cut-down version of 2SP with at least one stage replaced, all but one stage transition stripped out, and generally worse visual quality than on the original Xbox. They had very strict size limits on early XBLA releases. The online worked well at least.

>>3510293
This is a thing that happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDwZvjd_p70

I can't decide if I like it or not.

>>3514539
I played this song on Project Diva Arcade. I kicked ass on it since I already knew the rhythm.

>>3514539
remove the autotune animushit and it might be decent

>best song
>not Midnight Highway

Ya'll niggas is pleb as fuck.

I think it was 1987 I first played it. Was a hydraulic cab, ate all my tokens. Took me years to ever beat a route. When I got older my legs wouldn't fit under the 'dashboard' curse my legs.

My favourite arcade game of all time.

>>3510265
When you take a branch point, I love how the new background slides in so subtly. Never noticed that before.

But, you know, I only had the Speccy version so how could I?

>>3510265
Anyone notice the slight similarity between Magical Sound Shower and Sonic 2's Aquatic Ruin music?

They both got that DADA-DAH - DADA-DAH! bit.

http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/56e9af0f6b97c-the-cannonball-outrun.php

>>3514930
>owning the zx spectrum port of anything

I'm so sorry

>>3514307
Happened with Columns for SNES.

But what's the single best song from OutRun?

>>3516150
Magical Sound Shower > Splash Wave > Passing Breeze

>>3516150

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1TQWlSOxo

Self sage for not /vr/

>>3516150
Magical sound shower > Last Wave > Splash Wave > Passing Breeze
The only flaw of Last Wave is the fact it's way too short (well that's because it's the highscore music but still). Magical Sound Shower is THE Outrun music -- FM-synthesized jazz fusion, the thing that goes perfectly with driving at high speed on a coastal road with palmtrees and sunshine. Splash Wave is cool, but not too good either (the intro is great, but the rest of the song is kinda weak compared to it). Passing Breese is what you listen too much to the other songs (Last Wave excepted, it's too short to be listened to too many times).

Will we get a new Outrun game in 2026?

>>3516150
Passing Breeze > Last Wave > Magical Sound Shower = Splash Wave

Former is a really good mix of Naoya Matsuoka and Casiopea, among other J-pop/J-fusion influences, but it still sounds unique and timeless. MSS doesn't have as good a melody, but its build-up and salsa style's great. Splash Wave's just as good, probably the most recognizable OutRun tune after Last Wave.

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>>3516578
After a while of not knowing what Splash Wave reminded me of, I figured it to be more up-tempo, guitar-driven fusion, like this song from Toshiki Kadomatsu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfp-nA_zmjs

Naoya Matsuoka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEf4OKheNc

>>3516150
Splash Wave because it has the same lovely hihat roll as Space Harrier.
Rolls that are never ever put in arranges/remixes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7miBTOaa6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Tam9lv1KQ

>>3510265
>greatest driving game of all time
Only an A E S T H E T I C S faggot could say that

>>3515998
>Happened with Columns for SNES.
No it didn't. Look it up. If you try to post the title screen as "proof", you get a penguin.

>>3510285
find an arcade cabinet with the rotating car cockpit

it's the shit

>>3517545
Tell me where to find one and I will. Those are fucking rare 30 years later

Out of town, but if this threads still alive by the time I get back I'll upload the version of Saturn Outrun that works on later white and skeleton saturns; I got lucky on a Japanese auction. As far as I know it doesn't exist online, I've searched for years.

You guys actually play games here, right?

>>3514116
no did they are not much cheating or whatever the fuck you're trying to say

you can drive between traffic in either lane in Outrun, it's just hard

it's basically necessary to get good times

>>3514558
that isn't how you spell y'all faggot

stop talking like a nigger anyway

>>3515831
Quite.
>>3512392
This was my childhood, tragically.

I prefer Outrunner.

It was a blast slapping the gear and steering the wheel like crazy.

I just got Out Run for the 3DS. I suck at it.

>>3517979
As do I.

>>3517979
>>3518016
Don't be afraid to slow down. It's still better than crashing.

>>3518213
For cornering, I find the order is:
>downshift. still too fast?
>let off gas: still too fast?
>brake

Ideally the brake is only used for correcting mistakes.

I didn't play Outrun until this year.
I played the Sega 3D Classics port by M2 and fell in love with it. I thought it was one of the most pure, satisfying racing experiences I had ever had in a video game.
Then I played Outrun 2006 and now I can't decide which I like more.

I have tried playing outrun loads of times on a ton of differnt ports but I can't get 30 seconds in before the time runs out what am I doing wrong?

>>3518650
Change the timer to Easy, they made it too anal on Normal to suck people's quarters in the arcades.

>>3510594
never change penguinposter

>>3518650
Did you change into high gear?
That's the mistake I made when I first played. If you don't change into high gear, it is literally impossible to complete. So make sure you shift up.

>>3518829
Yep, I shift, but I still can't make it to the fourth level.

>>3518839
I still can't make it to the fourth level.
Oh, well in that case just play better.
When you said you can't get more than 30 seconds in, I thought you were saying you were literally timing out in 30 seconds. If you're just having trouble reaching a fourth level, then you need to work on your driving skills.
On the default difficulty, you can recover from one crash if you're good but a second crash will pretty much be death sentence.
If you don't want to decrease the difficulty, identify which levels you can do better and focus on that route. If you crash twice, you might as well restart if you don't feel bothered to record your scores.
An important trick to minimise crashes is make sure to down shift if it's a steep curve. Slowing down is a lot better than crashing.
It's just like any other driving game where you should be memorising the courses as much as possible, you've just got a lot less room for error. For example, I try to avoid the Alps as much as possible because I always fuck up there. Once you know which sections you are better at, you can plan your route to avoid the tricky sections.

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>>3518718
>change the timer to easy
This. It's only (if I remember correctly) an extra 5 seconds but it makes a world of difference. If it's on normal you better not crash even once of you want to complete the game in time.

>>3518906
Does changing the traffic difficulty make a quantifiable difference?

>>3520354
I honestly never changed the traffic from normal difficulty so I couldn't tell you. I could hardly get to the third stage with the timer on normal so I play on easy but the traffic is manageable yet challenging on normal. Plus it's so satisfying to navigate thru a ton of cars barely squeezing by and make it without crashing.

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THE GREAT DEBATE

>>3521510
>choosing anything other than Cannonball

For what purpose.

>>3521510
I stand by the Saturn release. The 3DS version is solid, no question, but the screen is too small to properly appreciate, IMO. And the cannonball/MAME versions rely on piracy and emulation as such aren't the best.

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>>3510265
Spent the play playing the M2 3DS remake/port/upgrade thingy.

Last month I found one of these at a local arcade and you bet your ass I blew a chunk of change playing this shit. So much fun.

What's the best OutRun song that's NOT from the original game?

http://www.strawpoll.me/11305205

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>>3522104
>being a moralfaggot over 30-year-old abandonware

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>>3522226
>best song isn't even in the poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4jjkiT0fc4

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>>3522552
>putting a song from outrun 2 over any of the originals

Look, you're allowed to have bad taste, just don't try and lie to us about it being the best. It doesn't even fit the aesthetic that the game is supposed to convey

>>3522798
Maybe you should read the context to what I was replying to

>>3522813
Maybe YOU should stop posting things that I'm liable to misinterpret when I'm tired and not thinking clearly. Did you ever consider THAT???

>>3522882
Oh shit I'm sorry