Out Run

This game is an official conversion, tie-in or a blatant rip-off, see Lost In Translation/Out Run

This game is part of a series. For more information, see Out Run series.

Out Run
Composer(s)	Jason Brooke
Team(s)	Probe
Publisher(s)	U.S. Gold
Music Format(s)	Soundtracker Jason Brooke
Year published	1988

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.

Gallery

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  Shown during a demo race, like the arcade version.

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  Hey! Where have all the crowds gone?

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  This stage looked awesome at the arcade. It just looks awful on the Amiga!

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  Shows your progress when you run out of time. I'd just reset the Amiga and remove the disk if I were you!

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  Almost faithful to the arcade version - but come on! Where's the copper gradient?

UnExoticA Music Files

Game/Brooke_Jason/Out_Run.lha

Download archive Game/Brooke_Jason/Out_Run.lha
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).

Filename	File Size	Composer	Game	Year	Team / Publisher
Out_Run
jcb.out_run	57186	Jason Brooke	Out Run	1988	U.S. Gold / Probe
mod.outrun wordsfirst	182752	Jason Brooke	Out Run	1988	U.S. Gold / Probe
mod.segaoutrun	170838	Jason Brooke	Out Run	1988	Sega / U.S. Gold / Probe
Unused
jcb.out_run	57186	Jason Brooke	Out Run	1988	U.S. Gold / Probe

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.

External Links

• Out Run (U.S. Gold) (OCS) at the Hall Of Light
• Out Run (Sega) (OCS) at the Hall Of Light
• Out Run at Lemon Amiga