Out Run ( Arcade, 1986)
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:04 pm
(Played on my Analogue Pocket.)
Is Out Run a good game? Sure. Is it a great one? I always kind of considered it the last of the "classic "arcade games and that was even stretching it because it is a genuinely beautiful game. I played it for a bit with one of my handheld systems tonight and I have to remember and recall that the game is meant to be played with a steering wheel. The Pocket's D-pad simply isn't the right controls.
I love how it looks, I love the crashes and the disappointment of the blonde that is with you is something I effort to avoid inside the game. And outside the game. I like that you can pick your own music (a first in arcade games? Boy, a better reviewer would know). The perspective never really gave me enough time to avoid anything - and in fact there are many stretches on the first course where you get even LESS of a heads-up because of dips. I live in an area with lots of hills. You'd think I would be used to it and that skill would translate to Out Run, but, well.
Just twice have I had a chance to play the real arcade version - I was helping a guy, a very nice guy named Ethan move his arcade games one weekend with some other fellas who all met over the KLOV site. It was probably 15 years ago here in Colorado, and he had one. And I think there's one in the 1UP or 2UP out here in Denver on location. I've never owned one, or any racing game for some reason.
Having played it tonight, I then looked at some longplays on Youtube, and I think that yeah, it is a good to great game with that steering wheel. An arcade game playing better on the real hardware is pretty much the raison d'etre of my collection of games. They don't stop emulating it or making it in FPGA, and I doubt I'll ever have a steering wheel controller for my computer. That was more my dad's thing. In fact, if you were to make a pie chart of different game controllers, he had the steering wheel, neither of us had the Guitar Hero instruments, and I had everything else.
I've got enough of the Out Run bug to now I really am trying to remember which bar has it out here. :/
Is Out Run a good game? Sure. Is it a great one? I always kind of considered it the last of the "classic "arcade games and that was even stretching it because it is a genuinely beautiful game. I played it for a bit with one of my handheld systems tonight and I have to remember and recall that the game is meant to be played with a steering wheel. The Pocket's D-pad simply isn't the right controls.
I love how it looks, I love the crashes and the disappointment of the blonde that is with you is something I effort to avoid inside the game. And outside the game. I like that you can pick your own music (a first in arcade games? Boy, a better reviewer would know). The perspective never really gave me enough time to avoid anything - and in fact there are many stretches on the first course where you get even LESS of a heads-up because of dips. I live in an area with lots of hills. You'd think I would be used to it and that skill would translate to Out Run, but, well.
Just twice have I had a chance to play the real arcade version - I was helping a guy, a very nice guy named Ethan move his arcade games one weekend with some other fellas who all met over the KLOV site. It was probably 15 years ago here in Colorado, and he had one. And I think there's one in the 1UP or 2UP out here in Denver on location. I've never owned one, or any racing game for some reason.
Having played it tonight, I then looked at some longplays on Youtube, and I think that yeah, it is a good to great game with that steering wheel. An arcade game playing better on the real hardware is pretty much the raison d'etre of my collection of games. They don't stop emulating it or making it in FPGA, and I doubt I'll ever have a steering wheel controller for my computer. That was more my dad's thing. In fact, if you were to make a pie chart of different game controllers, he had the steering wheel, neither of us had the Guitar Hero instruments, and I had everything else.
I've got enough of the Out Run bug to now I really am trying to remember which bar has it out here. :/