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The last bullet entry about some song Magical Sound Shower seems to have nothing to do with Out Run. I'd have someone figure out how it got on the page. 32.210.46.21 ( talk) 21:48, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
I remember seeing this movie called Donnie Darko (someone made an article about it if you want to see it: Donnie Darko) and in the movie he was playing this game. Donnie was at an arcade with the girl he likes and the he was playing the game and she was talking about...well I don't know what she was talking but the scene ended with Donnie "crashing" the car on the side and being all right, meaning he meant to do it .I just wanted to point that out and hope someone would add this to this article under the trivia section. I would put it in but I'm still new to this Wiki stuff. Not to mention I only watched the movie once so if anyone out there can elaborate that, Ive be thankful.
Oh and I dont understand that Summary thing so plz dont be angry for me not filling it.
I played around with Wiki so I decided to just go ahead and input the Donnie Darko reference, where he is playing the game but I only saw the film once cuz it belonged to someone else and I had to return it. Anyways anyone who saw the film, feel free to elaborate it more. - TKGB
I checked out that Donnie Darko movie again and couldn't find a scene with OutRun in it, there isn't even any scene in an arcade. BdR
The donnie darko scene is a deleted scene that can be viewed in the extra features. Will
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.73.89.132 ( talk) 18:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Removed as trivia - passing references in films are questionable; deleted scenes more so. Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines Cpaaoi ( talk) 16:32, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Boys/men are not brunette, boys/men are brown haired. Ladies are brunette.
Well, first of all, the word was initially "brunet", which, at least in the original French language, is the masculine of "brunette", so there's someone out there who changed it, and who doesn't get the difference between "brunet" and "brunette". 2004-12-29T22:45Z 17:30, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
WTF ? In french we say "brun" or "brune", "brunette" is purely english and I've never seen "brunet" ever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.165.19.210 ( talk) 18:52, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
It talks about pence, it should make reference to at least the US dollar, and Yen if anyone knows.
Some players consider that the easiest route was that leading to Goal A (i.e. by turning left at each fork), and the most challenging was that leading to Goal E.
I removed this and it's been put back again. I removed it because I think that what some players consider easy or hard is pretty irrelevent, and it certainly fall foul of NPOV. I'll leave it alone for now, but I'll remove it again unless anyone comes up with a good defence for it...
Removed again.
The page states "The camera is placed near the ground, simulating a Ferrari driver's position and limiting the player's view into the distance". Its anything but close to the ground, infact the POV is centred at about the height the overhead gantry signs. This is clearly incorrect.
I removed the Sony PSP from the release list. The only OutRun game to hit the PSP is OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast, which is not a port of OutRun. If it was released on the PSP as part of another game, then edit it back in under the appropriate section with the name of the game it is featured in.
My feeling is that some of the facts stated below the route plan could be construed as original research. I don't think it is appropriate to explain what can be deduced from the route plan. I would particularly question the "most time efficient route" (and this is mainly why I added the template) - on what basis was this worked out and how is it verifiable? Perhaps these routes are the shortest, but they may not be the easiest. Halsteadk 18:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Sumo Digital worked on the original? I thought they were only involved with the development of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast. Clarify, please. Alex ( talk) 07:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Great, some bot ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XLinkBot ) took out the link to the YouTube clip of that drunk driving PSA and now its gone back to saying "citation needed." I'm not going to put the link back up immediately since I know better but I'd at least like a bit of a discussion over whether this was the right thing to do or if there's an alternative course of action. So pissed over it, bots can't appreciate the context of a link, it removed it purely because it was a YouTube link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.234.88.254 ( talk) 10:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Removed: unsupported by given source. Cpaaoi ( talk) 16:33, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Was there a PC-DOS-specific version as the article says, or does it just mean MS-DOS on the IBM PC compatible? Cpc464 ( talk) 06:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The heading says “ports” but this was an 80s arcade game and the games listed were conversions, not ports. Back in the 80s, there was very little porting being done. I tried changing the title to “conversions” but someone changed it back. Can anyone give a good reason for this saying “ports”? Otherwise I will change this back to “conversions” in a few days’ time.
Grand Dizzy ( talk) 20:34, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer, Marty. I’m still not convinced though. Read the Wikipedia entry for porting, under “Porting in gaming”. This says that early “ports” were not true ports, because they weren’t actually ported. (Also note the Wikipedia article Video_game_conversion which, oddly, refers to all ports and conversions as “conversions”.)
I have been a big fan of videogames since the 80s, owning many different home computers, but I don’t ever remember hearing the expression “port” until the mid 90s (at the earliest). That’s not to say porting didn’t exist back then, it did (games were ported between home computers), but it wasn’t called porting. And any arcade games on a home computer was called a “conversion”. I must have read that word thousands of times as a kid: Spectrum conversions, C64 conversions, Amiga conversions, Atari ST conversions. There was no such phrase as an “arcade port” in those days.
If there is a Wikipedia policy on all conversions being called “ports”, is this a specific page that you can point me in the direction of, or are you just inferring the policy based on the number of games Wikipedia mentions which do (quite correctly) list “ports”?
Either way, I think all pages regarding converting/porting need to be updated and made consistent, either to discriminate between what is technically a conversion and a port, or to enforce the re-naming of all conversions as “ports”. Although I don’t see any reason for the latter personally. There are two different words because they mean two different things. Merging them into one word loses clarity and gains nothing. If you can explain what is gained by merging the two, I am happy to hear it, but I can’t understand it at present.
Analogy: here is an analogy. In the 70s, music was on vinyl. Now music is on CD. CD is the modern-day equivalent of vinyl. But if you wrote a Wikipedia article about a 1970s artist, you wouldn’t refer to their hits as “CDs”, just because CDs is the modern equivalent. That would be incorrect. If you wanted uniformity across all your articles, however, you might refer to their hits using a general term that can apply to both vinyl and CD, such as “records” or “recordings”. Transferring this back to our original scenario, you can’t call a conversion a “port” because that’s a modern equivalent, but not the same thing. If you want uniformity, you need a general term that covers both conversions and ports. I don’t believe either of the two terms covers both, so the best you could do for a generic term would be “conversions and ports”. But you can’t treat them both as the same thing because they’re not.
A conversion has been painstakingly recreated based on the original. People have spent a lot of time developing it and it is effectively a new game (many conversions in the 80s often were radically different from the original game). A port, however, is just the same game tweaked to work on a different system. It is by definition a clone of the original, only adjusted to fit the hardware limitations of the new machine. These two things are very different. They have nothing in common apart from the fact that they both transfer a game from one platform to another.
They can also be described as “emulation” and “simulation”. A port is an emulation, while a conversion is a simulation. Emulation geeks will tell you they are fundamentally different things. The game Pong was removed from MAME because it was deemed to be a simulation and not an emulation, since the game was hardware only, so there was no ROMs/code to emulate. MAME is strict about only supporting emulations, in other words (ports) and not simulations (conversions). Grand Dizzy ( talk) 23:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Should we add in the PSN version of Outrun Online Arcade?
It seems "OutRun" versus "Out Run" and such is just a very inconsistent issue, so I'll document it here for the hell of it.
The flyers for the original game use "Out Run" and even "アウト ラン". Apparently Sega stopped doing this for Turbo, as the American flyers clearly use "Turbo OutRun" while the Japanese flyer uses "ターボ アウトラン" (interestingly, there was an "amusement machine guide" set of flyers in 1991--well after Turbo--that features the original game and uses "Out Run"). OutRunners is almost the same as Turbo OutRun (with the exception of the German flyer, for some reason); nearly all instances outside the logo are fully capitalized, but the American flyer has "Outrunners" at the bottom. Both Sega Ages versions of OutRun just use that, which is also when they brought in the new logo.
Then we have OutRun 2, which finally uses "OutRun" in a consistent manner, going as far as to refer to the original game as such; in exchange, the number is made somewhat ambiguous. Every single logo bunches "OutRun2" together; this works for Japan as there aren't supposed to be spaces in the language. The fun part is that most European flyers kept this convention (in print) until SDX and 2006 (port), while pretty much every American port and flyer simply split the number from the beginning (still in print).
Currently, none of this considers the various ports aside from OutRun 2's, or games such as Battle/Europa/2019. Despatche ( talk) 11:27, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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Sage X: You've twice now removed something I added to the Outrun page, which is: "Japanese pop singer Seiko Matsuda can be seen playing the arcade version of Out Run in the music video for her 1987 song Strawberry Time."
Why did you remove it a second time after you saw that Outrun is in the video? I understand removing an unofficial link, but there was no need to remove the whole thing again. You only removed it the first time around due to your inability to find a copy of the video, as you wrote that you checked "several videos available on yt and none of them appear to feature outrun". The correct thing to do would have been to simply remove the link/bad reference instead of the whole thing, aka the way it was before you removed it the first time.
I had tried to find written references when I added it originally, but if there's nothing and if there's no official uploads to link to as a reference then not having a reference is how it is. It obviously can be easily checked by looking up the video, plus the video has been released on numerous DVDs of hers. The addition is definitely notable enough to be included on the page.'' Sage X (moved here by Cpaaoi ( talk) 15:45, 21 May 2017 (UTC))
Have also nominated the list of ports for deletion, regarding Wikipedia guideline: Exhaustive version histories: A list of every version/beta/patch is inappropriate. Consider a summary of development instead(( Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines)). We already have a development summary earlier in the page; this could easily subsume the remainder of the list. Cpaaoi ( talk) 15:40, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Regarding SamEtches' move to put Donnie Darko back in the article: the claim is that it features prominently - my understanding is that it does not feature prominently, but is seen briefly in one scene that did not make it into the original version of the film. The film is not about cars, or racing, or video games, and is not essential in any respect to the plot: had Donnie been playing Final Fantasy 73 or Jet Set Willy, airplane engines would still be falling from the sky! By all means have a mention of OutRun on the Donnie Darko pages (as I see it is on the Director's Cut page), but it doesn't belong here, since it adds nothing whatever to the reader's understanding of Yu Suzuki or his game or AM2 or SEGA. There could be a case for inclusion if, for example, Suzuki had played a part in the film's production, but the dismembered factoid ("game shown on film") is a matter for the film, not for this game, as things currently stand. (I'm trying to imagine a scenario in which a future edition of OutRun features Jake Gyllenhaal and Frank sitting in the Ferrari - now that would be worth mentioning in this article!) Cpaaoi ( talk) 14:22, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Have removed version list. There is no important information here which is not in, or implied by, the main article or the review infobox. Also, completely unsourced despite request. Please see WP:VGG#Inappropriate content. Many thanks! Cpaaoi ( talk) 13:25, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
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No, no, stop rolling your eyes, seriously! This one is short. It will be a nice palette cleanser from my writing. If I have not posted a review by the end of the weekend, you have my permission to murder me in my sleep.
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Look a review! And in the promised time frame no less!
"The 1991 Sega Genesis version also received positive reviews." - I assume you were unable to find any reviews to quote, but this really feels like a weird afterthought after the detail lavished on the other ports.
There is a nice interview on shmuplations with one of Sega's earliest and longest-tenured employees in which he discusses the role that Out Run and other taikan games played in revitalizing Sega's arcade fortunes in the mid 1980s. I think that would be a nice addition to either the reception or the legacy section.
All in all, a good article. I will put the nomination On hold while concerns are addressed.
There is absolutely no way this series is called "Out Run". In all the trademarks from Sega as well as the former PSN listing of OutRun Online Arcade, the name has always been a conjoined "Outrun". Does anyone have the evidence to challenge this? -- Platvile ( talk) 07:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
There is a trick to see similar cars but with other colours and lights. the trick consist of insert the coin just the fourth time the credits appear during demo mode (its mandatory to complete one time at least a route) 88.29.186.37 ( talk) 20:03, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
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The last bullet entry about some song Magical Sound Shower seems to have nothing to do with Out Run. I'd have someone figure out how it got on the page. 32.210.46.21 ( talk) 21:48, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
I remember seeing this movie called Donnie Darko (someone made an article about it if you want to see it: Donnie Darko) and in the movie he was playing this game. Donnie was at an arcade with the girl he likes and the he was playing the game and she was talking about...well I don't know what she was talking but the scene ended with Donnie "crashing" the car on the side and being all right, meaning he meant to do it .I just wanted to point that out and hope someone would add this to this article under the trivia section. I would put it in but I'm still new to this Wiki stuff. Not to mention I only watched the movie once so if anyone out there can elaborate that, Ive be thankful.
Oh and I dont understand that Summary thing so plz dont be angry for me not filling it.
I played around with Wiki so I decided to just go ahead and input the Donnie Darko reference, where he is playing the game but I only saw the film once cuz it belonged to someone else and I had to return it. Anyways anyone who saw the film, feel free to elaborate it more. - TKGB
I checked out that Donnie Darko movie again and couldn't find a scene with OutRun in it, there isn't even any scene in an arcade. BdR
The donnie darko scene is a deleted scene that can be viewed in the extra features. Will
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.73.89.132 ( talk) 18:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Removed as trivia - passing references in films are questionable; deleted scenes more so. Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines Cpaaoi ( talk) 16:32, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Boys/men are not brunette, boys/men are brown haired. Ladies are brunette.
Well, first of all, the word was initially "brunet", which, at least in the original French language, is the masculine of "brunette", so there's someone out there who changed it, and who doesn't get the difference between "brunet" and "brunette". 2004-12-29T22:45Z 17:30, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
WTF ? In french we say "brun" or "brune", "brunette" is purely english and I've never seen "brunet" ever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.165.19.210 ( talk) 18:52, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
It talks about pence, it should make reference to at least the US dollar, and Yen if anyone knows.
Some players consider that the easiest route was that leading to Goal A (i.e. by turning left at each fork), and the most challenging was that leading to Goal E.
I removed this and it's been put back again. I removed it because I think that what some players consider easy or hard is pretty irrelevent, and it certainly fall foul of NPOV. I'll leave it alone for now, but I'll remove it again unless anyone comes up with a good defence for it...
Removed again.
The page states "The camera is placed near the ground, simulating a Ferrari driver's position and limiting the player's view into the distance". Its anything but close to the ground, infact the POV is centred at about the height the overhead gantry signs. This is clearly incorrect.
I removed the Sony PSP from the release list. The only OutRun game to hit the PSP is OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast, which is not a port of OutRun. If it was released on the PSP as part of another game, then edit it back in under the appropriate section with the name of the game it is featured in.
My feeling is that some of the facts stated below the route plan could be construed as original research. I don't think it is appropriate to explain what can be deduced from the route plan. I would particularly question the "most time efficient route" (and this is mainly why I added the template) - on what basis was this worked out and how is it verifiable? Perhaps these routes are the shortest, but they may not be the easiest. Halsteadk 18:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Sumo Digital worked on the original? I thought they were only involved with the development of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast. Clarify, please. Alex ( talk) 07:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Great, some bot ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XLinkBot ) took out the link to the YouTube clip of that drunk driving PSA and now its gone back to saying "citation needed." I'm not going to put the link back up immediately since I know better but I'd at least like a bit of a discussion over whether this was the right thing to do or if there's an alternative course of action. So pissed over it, bots can't appreciate the context of a link, it removed it purely because it was a YouTube link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.234.88.254 ( talk) 10:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Removed: unsupported by given source. Cpaaoi ( talk) 16:33, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Was there a PC-DOS-specific version as the article says, or does it just mean MS-DOS on the IBM PC compatible? Cpc464 ( talk) 06:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The heading says “ports” but this was an 80s arcade game and the games listed were conversions, not ports. Back in the 80s, there was very little porting being done. I tried changing the title to “conversions” but someone changed it back. Can anyone give a good reason for this saying “ports”? Otherwise I will change this back to “conversions” in a few days’ time.
Grand Dizzy ( talk) 20:34, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer, Marty. I’m still not convinced though. Read the Wikipedia entry for porting, under “Porting in gaming”. This says that early “ports” were not true ports, because they weren’t actually ported. (Also note the Wikipedia article Video_game_conversion which, oddly, refers to all ports and conversions as “conversions”.)
I have been a big fan of videogames since the 80s, owning many different home computers, but I don’t ever remember hearing the expression “port” until the mid 90s (at the earliest). That’s not to say porting didn’t exist back then, it did (games were ported between home computers), but it wasn’t called porting. And any arcade games on a home computer was called a “conversion”. I must have read that word thousands of times as a kid: Spectrum conversions, C64 conversions, Amiga conversions, Atari ST conversions. There was no such phrase as an “arcade port” in those days.
If there is a Wikipedia policy on all conversions being called “ports”, is this a specific page that you can point me in the direction of, or are you just inferring the policy based on the number of games Wikipedia mentions which do (quite correctly) list “ports”?
Either way, I think all pages regarding converting/porting need to be updated and made consistent, either to discriminate between what is technically a conversion and a port, or to enforce the re-naming of all conversions as “ports”. Although I don’t see any reason for the latter personally. There are two different words because they mean two different things. Merging them into one word loses clarity and gains nothing. If you can explain what is gained by merging the two, I am happy to hear it, but I can’t understand it at present.
Analogy: here is an analogy. In the 70s, music was on vinyl. Now music is on CD. CD is the modern-day equivalent of vinyl. But if you wrote a Wikipedia article about a 1970s artist, you wouldn’t refer to their hits as “CDs”, just because CDs is the modern equivalent. That would be incorrect. If you wanted uniformity across all your articles, however, you might refer to their hits using a general term that can apply to both vinyl and CD, such as “records” or “recordings”. Transferring this back to our original scenario, you can’t call a conversion a “port” because that’s a modern equivalent, but not the same thing. If you want uniformity, you need a general term that covers both conversions and ports. I don’t believe either of the two terms covers both, so the best you could do for a generic term would be “conversions and ports”. But you can’t treat them both as the same thing because they’re not.
A conversion has been painstakingly recreated based on the original. People have spent a lot of time developing it and it is effectively a new game (many conversions in the 80s often were radically different from the original game). A port, however, is just the same game tweaked to work on a different system. It is by definition a clone of the original, only adjusted to fit the hardware limitations of the new machine. These two things are very different. They have nothing in common apart from the fact that they both transfer a game from one platform to another.
They can also be described as “emulation” and “simulation”. A port is an emulation, while a conversion is a simulation. Emulation geeks will tell you they are fundamentally different things. The game Pong was removed from MAME because it was deemed to be a simulation and not an emulation, since the game was hardware only, so there was no ROMs/code to emulate. MAME is strict about only supporting emulations, in other words (ports) and not simulations (conversions). Grand Dizzy ( talk) 23:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Should we add in the PSN version of Outrun Online Arcade?
It seems "OutRun" versus "Out Run" and such is just a very inconsistent issue, so I'll document it here for the hell of it.
The flyers for the original game use "Out Run" and even "アウト ラン". Apparently Sega stopped doing this for Turbo, as the American flyers clearly use "Turbo OutRun" while the Japanese flyer uses "ターボ アウトラン" (interestingly, there was an "amusement machine guide" set of flyers in 1991--well after Turbo--that features the original game and uses "Out Run"). OutRunners is almost the same as Turbo OutRun (with the exception of the German flyer, for some reason); nearly all instances outside the logo are fully capitalized, but the American flyer has "Outrunners" at the bottom. Both Sega Ages versions of OutRun just use that, which is also when they brought in the new logo.
Then we have OutRun 2, which finally uses "OutRun" in a consistent manner, going as far as to refer to the original game as such; in exchange, the number is made somewhat ambiguous. Every single logo bunches "OutRun2" together; this works for Japan as there aren't supposed to be spaces in the language. The fun part is that most European flyers kept this convention (in print) until SDX and 2006 (port), while pretty much every American port and flyer simply split the number from the beginning (still in print).
Currently, none of this considers the various ports aside from OutRun 2's, or games such as Battle/Europa/2019. Despatche ( talk) 11:27, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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Sage X: You've twice now removed something I added to the Outrun page, which is: "Japanese pop singer Seiko Matsuda can be seen playing the arcade version of Out Run in the music video for her 1987 song Strawberry Time."
Why did you remove it a second time after you saw that Outrun is in the video? I understand removing an unofficial link, but there was no need to remove the whole thing again. You only removed it the first time around due to your inability to find a copy of the video, as you wrote that you checked "several videos available on yt and none of them appear to feature outrun". The correct thing to do would have been to simply remove the link/bad reference instead of the whole thing, aka the way it was before you removed it the first time.
I had tried to find written references when I added it originally, but if there's nothing and if there's no official uploads to link to as a reference then not having a reference is how it is. It obviously can be easily checked by looking up the video, plus the video has been released on numerous DVDs of hers. The addition is definitely notable enough to be included on the page.'' Sage X (moved here by Cpaaoi ( talk) 15:45, 21 May 2017 (UTC))
Have also nominated the list of ports for deletion, regarding Wikipedia guideline: Exhaustive version histories: A list of every version/beta/patch is inappropriate. Consider a summary of development instead(( Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines)). We already have a development summary earlier in the page; this could easily subsume the remainder of the list. Cpaaoi ( talk) 15:40, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Regarding SamEtches' move to put Donnie Darko back in the article: the claim is that it features prominently - my understanding is that it does not feature prominently, but is seen briefly in one scene that did not make it into the original version of the film. The film is not about cars, or racing, or video games, and is not essential in any respect to the plot: had Donnie been playing Final Fantasy 73 or Jet Set Willy, airplane engines would still be falling from the sky! By all means have a mention of OutRun on the Donnie Darko pages (as I see it is on the Director's Cut page), but it doesn't belong here, since it adds nothing whatever to the reader's understanding of Yu Suzuki or his game or AM2 or SEGA. There could be a case for inclusion if, for example, Suzuki had played a part in the film's production, but the dismembered factoid ("game shown on film") is a matter for the film, not for this game, as things currently stand. (I'm trying to imagine a scenario in which a future edition of OutRun features Jake Gyllenhaal and Frank sitting in the Ferrari - now that would be worth mentioning in this article!) Cpaaoi ( talk) 14:22, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Have removed version list. There is no important information here which is not in, or implied by, the main article or the review infobox. Also, completely unsourced despite request. Please see WP:VGG#Inappropriate content. Many thanks! Cpaaoi ( talk) 13:25, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Indrian ( talk · contribs) 00:57, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
No, no, stop rolling your eyes, seriously! This one is short. It will be a nice palette cleanser from my writing. If I have not posted a review by the end of the weekend, you have my permission to murder me in my sleep.
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Look a review! And in the promised time frame no less!
"The 1991 Sega Genesis version also received positive reviews." - I assume you were unable to find any reviews to quote, but this really feels like a weird afterthought after the detail lavished on the other ports.
There is a nice interview on shmuplations with one of Sega's earliest and longest-tenured employees in which he discusses the role that Out Run and other taikan games played in revitalizing Sega's arcade fortunes in the mid 1980s. I think that would be a nice addition to either the reception or the legacy section.
All in all, a good article. I will put the nomination On hold while concerns are addressed.
There is absolutely no way this series is called "Out Run". In all the trademarks from Sega as well as the former PSN listing of OutRun Online Arcade, the name has always been a conjoined "Outrun". Does anyone have the evidence to challenge this? -- Platvile ( talk) 07:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
There is a trick to see similar cars but with other colours and lights. the trick consist of insert the coin just the fourth time the credits appear during demo mode (its mandatory to complete one time at least a route) 88.29.186.37 ( talk) 20:03, 1 August 2023 (UTC)