Problem is they only ever go with M2 to port everything, and so does every other company, and M2 are still really quite small and so there's only so much they can be working on at any one time. But yeah imagine a big compilation of arcade, genesis and saturn arcade racers. If there was like 10 games I'd even consider paying £60 or whatever. And I'd buy a physical cartridge if they sold it that way
According to Famitsu it was planed at some point to port System 32 titles over to the Saturn as either launch titles or early lineup. We got that Rad Mobile port(Gale Racer), but nothing else. Other titles mentioned were OutRunners and Golden Axe.
@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Playstation is partly to blame here. Saturn was meant to be the ultimate 2D machine, then Playstation was announced to be 3D and suddenly Saturn need 3D. Hence why Daytona USA ended up being the launch title.
Sega really need to consider their hidden gem games from the arcade to platforms of today... Sometimes I wonder if Sega know what their sitting on with the arcade titles they have.
These titles are literally so good it's not even funny. Makes me wonder if they aren't released do to them not owning %100 percent of the game, or if they no longer have the source codes to do it proper. I hear that Sega lost their "source code" to the original Virtua Fighter, hence we may never see it officially released again. Hopefully that's not the case with Outrunners.
The more advanced super scaler games still look impressive even today, especially because they have a unique aesthetic that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s too bad that the only way you can play these games now is through emulation.
@@Lightblue2222 I'm not a programmer so I don't understand, but if they have the game itself already can't they extract the source code from it? Like, virtua fighter arcade machines are still out there, they have the arcade boards from inside, what else do they need?
@@duffman18 right? You would think. People have already emulated the Arcade Virtua Fighter pretty well, but it has graphical glitches. And I got to reading in the comments that the glitches can't be understood well enough to fix without the original source code. Then I started reading that Sega was actually missing the source code, and that without it they werent able to re release it for 360 like they did with Virtua Fighter 2 and Daytona USA "which they still have the source code for." I wonder if it's also about legalities, that without it's original patented code they no longer own the game, but I really don't know. Only that it seems to be official that Sega did lose source codes. It was admitted that somewhere down the line, between moving locations and storage etc.. that whatever they were stored or made on got lost. They didn't realise they were lost until years after they were lost, and became impossible to track down. I guess they were always looking to the future and didn't realise they'd be able to cash in on the past. Or at least not enough to keep tabs on it. Supposedly Virtua Fighter is missing along with many System 32 games and Saturn. Kinda sad if the real reason for no releases is the inability to.
Ah OK, thanks guys. I assumed that it'd be simple enough cos I hear of things like rumours of secrets in old games, and then some people "searched through the whole source code" and found nothing, like the way they described it made it sound like if you have the rom, you can open it in some program and look through all the code. It's fascinating. I wish though that as a teen back in the day I'd have taught myself coding. I chose to teach myself guitar instead. But programming is like physics to me, I love learning about it through layman descriptions but I don't truly understand it at all
SEGA should've released a racing game compilation at this point. Put Hang-On all the way to Outrun 2006. Pretty sure a lot of people would buy it for full AAA price.
In arcadeplanet spain we do have outrunners in mint condition.. really an amazing game which is fully enjoyable today... We also got a bunch of racers daytona usa 1 and 2, original outrun (deluxe cabinet) and 4 linked outrun 2 that game is 13-14 years old but plays like a 2019 game Sega at its pure heart
Outrunners is amazing. My first experience with it was on the Genesis. At the time I didn't even know an arcade version existed. So I was living in a world of perpetual "WTF?" regarding the game until the internet came around a bit later and opened my eyes to many new things. Like free porn. Err I mean videogame knowledge. Also you've unwittingly given me an idea for a future episode about Sega arcade games.
I was that way with a lot of Sega Master System stuff. The internet showed up and I was like "that was on the SMS??" I'm often accused of poaching your ideas, so anything I can give back(how ever indirect it may be), does my heart proud. ;)
After playing the great Virtua Racing on the Switch, I hope they can bring this and Scud Race and many more titles over. They have a great catalogue don’t leave it all behind!
Backwards step wasn't it? :P Seriously though, I'm utterly besotted at the moment with how incredible Sega's "throw enough sprites at it and it'll look real!" approach looks.
Happy 20th anniversary to the Dreamcast U.K launch 14th Oct 1999. P.S - I bought a Mega Drive Mini so hopefully with enough sales Sega will look at making much more of their back catalogue available.
Outrunners is a great game. I had a Sega Genesis as a teenager. I'm now getting back into retro gaming and I picked up Outrunners a couple of months ago. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
I recently got the Arcade1up Outrun cabinet for my birthday (still haven't assembled it yet) which includes Outrun (obviously), Turbo Outrun, Power Drift, and Outrunners. I'm glad that Outrunners has been ported to something properly, though I would also welcome a Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, or PC release.
There are a bunch of Sega Arcade racers I would love see a modern release, be it as they originally came out, or if they decide to modernize; Outrunners, Power Drift, Rad Mobile(I know Saturn got a version of this), Scud GT, F1 Exhaust Note, even Super Monaco GP (I appreciate the Genesis version which gave you a full season of races, but the arcade scaler was paired back on the way home), Sega has enough racers to bring out an anthology or 2. Outrunners definitely needs a modern release, the Genesis version was a compromise; in order to add multiplayer the forced a splitscreen mode even in single player. The AI in single player had the worst rubberbanding which was present in 2 player as well, the further ahead you got, the more your car's performance would degrade. The shame was that Sega's Outrun on the Genesis was handled very well, and Sega developed single player Outrunners on the same engine might have been pretty good (i'd still expect some compromises but it would've been better than what we got). The other thing is that Sega seemed to revisit plenty of the locales of Outrunners(as well as Outrun) in Outrun2 /SP/Coast to Coast; Egypt, Greece, France, Germany, Niagra Falls, the Grand Canyon, Pacific Islands and others are well represented in the Outrun 2 games. I hope this isn't the reason Sega hasn't bothered since with Outrunners. Outrunners 2 (with modern versions of the unlicensed cars) would seem like a good way to realize Outrun 3.
@@ZoneofDoom it's my favorite. Was at the arcade hogging the machine the whole day before I was conscripted. Always use the secret Porsche car, there's also a secret Sonic car.
Personally I'd LOVE home versions of Outrunners, Rail Chase, Wild Riders, Dirt Devils , Scud Race, Golden Axe RoDA etc. Definitely quality games, but I'm not quite sure the audience is there.They might like them when they play them, but they won't be recognized by 95% of the gaming community. The could invest in an 'Arcade Legends' pack with 20 or so games, that might work.
I don't think the audience is there either - and the amount of work and investment needed to successfully port *even one* of these arcade games to modern platforms is *grossly* underestimated by many fans.
@@Fattydeposit I think so too. That said, if they decide to port them they could be sold on MANY formats (Steam, GOG, XBone, PS4, Switch, Android etc).
I had thought it was a Genesis exclusive until I saw it at the Hockey Rink. Let me tell you, I didn't watch any hockey that day ;). Soon as we got our seats I left to go back and play it. And I still remember it blowing my mind. And this was probably in the early 2000s. Always loved it on my Genesis but now I knew how it was meant to be.
I remember playing football my sophomore year 92-93 , I was excited about our first night game as we had about 5 hours to kill (half day)and the team mobbed the UTC mall . I remember walking in to the Tilt arcade and hearing this loud dj announcing a race and the reve of an engine... I found OUTRUNNERS !!! What a great game . I had a great game as well and I will always remember that day I walked into the arcade and spent the whole time racing and then winning our first night game...
Still remember that day when I first saw this game at the small arcade across the street from my high school. The Mega Drive version is a joke. There is no way the MD could've replicate the arcade original, but it could present a solid game like the Outrun port if they did the game in single screen. And Sega was too lazy to port this game in-house. I am wondering if they ported this game to Mega CD, which has sprite zooming ability, how would it look like? I am surprised that with them kind of re-porting Tetris and Darius to Mega Drive Mini, why didn't they choose this game instead? This game would be a perfect fit to see what Mega CD is capable of.
All of the super scalar games should have went to the Sega CD after it's release instead of the genesis. Later others on the Sega Saturn along with the systems 32 games as well.
This game looks awesome. For me, Outrun was a game that I only played later on emulators. But if Outrunners came out on the Switch or something for the right price, I'd definitely pick it up now! Still loving that new intro btw!
I've always thought Outrunners is incredibly underrated and overlooked. It is my favourite Outrun game from the franchise and it's frustrating to not have any (decent) home platform to play it (the fact this game isn't on Saturn makes no sense to me). Most of the brand new music tracks are dope here (Blow your Cool and Looking for The Rainbow are my favourites). I don't know why SEGA ignore this game so much...
If Sega made an Outrun collection with: Outrun (Global and Japanese courses with smooth option) Turbo Outrun Outrunners Outrun 2 then I'd give them my entire wallet without a second thought. They probably won't, but it's easy money.
This is on my TOP 3 podium of best games of all time. Both arcade and MegaDrive/Genesis versions. My biggest desire is to see a remaster version by M2 for the SEGA AGES collection or a remake 3D version by Sumo Digital. Thank you SEGA Lord X, delightful review 🙌🏻
I agree, if Sega should bring their arcade games to consoles, i would want to pay more if necessary. But not more then $ 20,- Sega has so many IP's which would fit pretty well in the Sega Ages category. I also would not mind if they came with collections like Konami did with Castlevania, Contra and some Arcade classics. An Outrun collection with not only Outrunners, but arcade perfect versions of all Outrun games (maybe even including Outrun 2) would be very nice! And preferably be done by M2!
Good choice for a first game. I’d love a look into Racing Hero if you can for a future episode, I always loved that game. No port at all unfortunately but MAME does seem to run it perfectly.
Was never a car guy but I could FEEL the passion of the Outrunners and Daytona devs in the aesthetics, music, animations and fluid gameplay. Really wish Sega or another games company had pitched Akira Toriyama the idea of making designs for a racing game like he did for Dragon Quest.
My story is my cousin lived in the suburbs and it had a huge Asian population so allot of cool stuff would be available. And at his local mall we kind of haphazardly tried out Outrunners and man super blown away. I rememeber changing tracks and just trying to beat my cousin by getting just that little bit further than him. As you can tell this game has strong memories for me.
One of my favorite games ever!!!!! Chucked many MANY coins into this subwoofer seat racing machine!!!!! On a modern system??? A straight port?? Fifty bucks is good. And updated polygon link system or online free for all????? With perks, extra cars, extra drivers, extra routes,????????? A hundred cold easily!!!! They might even get me to pre-order!!! Great retrospective dear brother!!!!! PEACE family.
I would have dropped a 20 on Virtua Racing, as I would with so many other of their awesome arcade racers. Thank you for shining a spotlight on Outrunners, it's my favorite game in the series and is also one of the earliest games to have Takenobu Mitsuyoshi on the soundtrack! Also to note, at least the game got a nod on digital music distributors, you can buy the Outrunners soundtrack as Out Run - Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2.
I'd pay $30 for OutRunners done up by M2, with a slight coat of paint, but basically the same tried and true arcade game. If it got a physical release, I'd pay more. These games are legendary in the hearts of gamers from this era. Our very foundation is the arcade, and Sega is a gigantic reason for this.
Sega lost a lot of their old games so the question is do they even still have the code for this anymore? They definitely should go in and re-release games like this though, it won't require a massive budget and they would find an audience, certainly on the Switch
It is possible that Arcade 1up could do something with Sega and release a version of this for their home arcade machines. If they did a Star Wars one and a Turtles one they could do games like this also.
Would love to play this. I played the Genesis version via the Sega Channel and really enjoyed it; this is clearly such a step above but still beautifully retro.
En Buenos Aires, se encontraba a menudo en los centros recreativos los 4 módulos dobles, combinados para partidas de "8 - jugadores", al igual que con Virtua Racing. Posiblemente varios de esos equipos esten en galpones, esperando a ser devueltos a la luz.
Really loving your collection in the back. Outrun/Hangon Series was awesome! I never got the chance to play Outrunners, but I have heard of it. Time to check it out on emulators. :D
Now that I have seen the gameplay, I have seen it a few times as a kid at Dave and Busters and other Arcades, but it was always hogged by folks so I never got the chance to actually try it.
With all the polygonal 3D craze going on during the Saturn's lifetime, I understand why scaling games took a backseat. Maybe it would have been at home on the 32X.
Your right. I almost hate to discover awesome Sega arcade games that never get (proper) home ports because my laptop is garbo and can only play some of em. Outrunners, Daytona 2, Scud race, planet harriers, ect. Heck could we have a collection of em in a pack? Would be a day one purchase!
As it turns out, Arcade1Up announced an OutRun arcade cabinet that not only features OutRun, but also Turbo OutRun, OutRunners and Power Drift. I'll guarantee that all four games will be arcade perfect, and will be the only way to legally and truly live the arcade OutRunners experience.
I need Outrunners 2. Agree 100% with all said. Sega was sitting on golden eggs. I can imagine Nintendo's surprise by how badly Sega was managed and now even worse. Sega can earn thousands of dollars from me alone. Please take my money, Sega
One other thing about OutRunners that would make it ideal for Sega AGES: the cars are cartoonish and, while you can guess which real world cars inspired them, Sega made the cars different enough from their inspirations that I don't think there would be any licensing issues, unlike the Sega AGES version of the original OutRun where they had to change the appearance of not just the Testarossa but also the drone traffic cars to avoid any trademark infringements.
camping and finding awesome sega games like outrunners, thats my experience to a T! Loves nature, but it was also great when the campgrounds would have sick arcade games because youd find stuff that you'd never see anywhere else. Stuff that you wouldn't see again until years later when info on the internet became more reliable or accessible.
Wow I'm a huge Outrun fan myself and I've NEVER seen this game before! I gotta say, this game really does look amazing! It's Outrun, but twice as nice! Man looking at the gameplay footage in this video really took my mind out of this #$%!!y world for a moment lol. Speaking of Outrun, I don't think anyone on youtube did what I'm about to say right now: why don't you shine a light on Outrun 2019? I mean we're in 2019 and the year is almost over so might as well! 😄
I just got Outrun2 for the og Xbox and it’s friggin great! It quietly includes Outrun as well. I think a new Outrun collection, including Outrunners and a new game would be a good seller.
I'm surprised you mention the music in the game but not the unique implementation in the cabinet to have a separate dot matrix display just for the radio. That was the coolest feature on the cabinet. And the force feedback on the wheel that would push and pull it away from you when you crashed.
Great video. Personally, this game is one of the most important games in their back catalog. Now that we have a very good port of Power Drift on 3ds (and it is very satisfying to play on a new 3ds with head tracking to keep 3d seamless) it boggles my mind that Outrunners has not gotten the green light for a classics collection or Sega Ages dlcs. Look, 20 is not gonna kill me, in fact I agree, Outrunners is totally worth it for the variety of drivers, cars, tracks and the amazing scaling. C'mon Sega! Listen to SLX.
I couldn't agree more- although I think some of the more recent arcade releases (think Model 3 and up) would probably gain more of an audience- these are the games that a larger number of those who game now are likely to have seen or still see in arcades today. Also, I completely agree with many other comments here- these awesome games would present much better value and appeal as a collection- imagine a model 2/3 racer collection, an arcade shooter classics pack with Lost World and Virtua Cop 3 in it- those would surely do well?
I love your stuff man, and although I watch all of you console videos, personally I'd love to follow a long series of actual arcade games (not ports, and emulate them). Please take us through the sega arcade system evolutions and the sick games for each.. I'd be in heaven.
I have a modded OG Xbox that has Outrunners and a ton of other MAME and console games. There are over 20,000 games on it. My personal favorite game on it is the complete OG Xbox version of Kameo: Elements of Power, which was never released! The modder who made the Xbox obviously loves his customers..
I'm fairly certain I played this game when I was a little baby (born in '92). I always felt Outrun was familiar because I played in the arcade at one point. I think this is the one I'm remembering.
In my opinion, I think OutRunners should be remade spiritually in HD polygons by Aquiris Game Studio, the makers of the excellent Top Gear homage, Horizon Chase Turbo/World Tour. The work they've done for that game is phenomenal.
I would buy it in a heart beat. In fact, I would buy the outrun 1 up arcade if outrunners were in mph instead of kmh. Also a note, manual cars has a higher top speed as far as the Arcade goes and the home port kept me very busy, certain tricks could net you over 300mph with mad power, wild chaser if timed right could blast up to 283mph before it eases down to its natural top speed, speed buster was a record breaker , and that knockout mode where you raced for pinks was super compedative
I bought all the arcade, Dreamcast, and Saturn releases on PSN when they came out on PS3. I'd buy any more they release, too, but they seem content to be a Sonic company that re-releases Sega Genesis games every generation.
Sega had another over-the-top racing game kind of like this but had up to 4- or even 8 players at once if linked together. Remember what its name was? I remember it in the arcade once as a kid and was blown away.
There are several of these: there was Power Drift which had you driving go-karts for several laps around various courses (some feeling like a rollercoaster), Outrunners itself could also link up several units for up to 8 players, Virtua Racing and Daytona USA had 8 players linkable...
I literally spend way too much money to play this game. A few hours in the weekends for a few years. In Malaysia there are few arcades that has this in 8 player link up. Yes 4 cabinets together not indifferent to Daytona. That was a blast.
I personally feel it wouldn't make the money it needed - as much as I love and agree to these games values. Sega might have much more luck by releasing a SEGA ARCADE ULTIMATE COLLECTION type of deal which simply emulated all arcade games that have yet to be released. Yes it would mean a standardization for each system type but be much more cost effective than individual Sega ages releases. Great video as always bro.
I think if Sega were to release a collection of arcade racers, with online and local multi player, then it would do gang busters.
Physically.
Yup
I agree
Problem is they only ever go with M2 to port everything, and so does every other company, and M2 are still really quite small and so there's only so much they can be working on at any one time. But yeah imagine a big compilation of arcade, genesis and saturn arcade racers. If there was like 10 games I'd even consider paying £60 or whatever. And I'd buy a physical cartridge if they sold it that way
Must come with Scud Racer to be awesome.
God, I love me some Super Scalers. During its heyday, who else here was blown away from Sega's Super Scaler arcade games?
The Saturn was _made_ for this game. So sad we never saw a port :(
Jeremy Gregorio Sega should’ve ported the game to the Saturn and not the Genesis.
According to Famitsu it was planed at some point to port System 32 titles over to the Saturn as either launch titles or early lineup.
We got that Rad Mobile port(Gale Racer), but nothing else. Other titles mentioned were OutRunners and Golden Axe.
@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Playstation is partly to blame here. Saturn was meant to be the ultimate 2D machine, then Playstation was announced to be 3D and suddenly Saturn need 3D. Hence why Daytona USA ended up being the launch title.
Sega really need to consider their hidden gem games from the arcade to platforms of today... Sometimes I wonder if Sega know what their sitting on with the arcade titles they have.
These titles are literally so good it's not even funny. Makes me wonder if they aren't released do to them not owning %100 percent of the game, or if they no longer have the source codes to do it proper.
I hear that Sega lost their "source code" to the original Virtua Fighter, hence we may never see it officially released again.
Hopefully that's not the case with Outrunners.
The more advanced super scaler games still look impressive even today, especially because they have a unique aesthetic that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s too bad that the only way you can play these games now is through emulation.
@@Lightblue2222 I'm not a programmer so I don't understand, but if they have the game itself already can't they extract the source code from it? Like, virtua fighter arcade machines are still out there, they have the arcade boards from inside, what else do they need?
@@duffman18 right? You would think.
People have already emulated the Arcade Virtua Fighter pretty well, but it has graphical glitches. And I got to reading in the comments that the glitches can't be understood well enough to fix without the original source code.
Then I started reading that Sega was actually missing the source code, and that without it they werent able to re release it for 360 like they did with Virtua Fighter 2 and Daytona USA "which they still have the source code for."
I wonder if it's also about legalities, that without it's original patented code they no longer own the game, but I really don't know.
Only that it seems to be official that Sega did lose source codes. It was admitted that somewhere down the line, between moving locations and storage etc.. that whatever they were stored or made on got lost. They didn't realise they were lost until years after they were lost, and became impossible to track down.
I guess they were always looking to the future and didn't realise they'd be able to cash in on the past. Or at least not enough to keep tabs on it.
Supposedly Virtua Fighter is missing along with many System 32 games and Saturn.
Kinda sad if the real reason for no releases is the inability to.
Ah OK, thanks guys. I assumed that it'd be simple enough cos I hear of things like rumours of secrets in old games, and then some people "searched through the whole source code" and found nothing, like the way they described it made it sound like if you have the rom, you can open it in some program and look through all the code.
It's fascinating. I wish though that as a teen back in the day I'd have taught myself coding. I chose to teach myself guitar instead. But programming is like physics to me, I love learning about it through layman descriptions but I don't truly understand it at all
Sega just needs to release a complete Outrun series collection. Hell, I'll pay a premium for the series if it means having the Ferrari license back.
I would love to see that, along with otber complilations.
SEGA should've released a racing game compilation at this point. Put Hang-On all the way to Outrun 2006. Pretty sure a lot of people would buy it for full AAA price.
In arcadeplanet spain we do have outrunners in mint condition.. really an amazing game which is fully enjoyable today... We also got a bunch of racers daytona usa 1 and 2, original outrun (deluxe cabinet) and 4 linked outrun 2 that game is 13-14 years old but plays like a 2019 game
Sega at its pure heart
Outrunners is amazing. My first experience with it was on the Genesis. At the time I didn't even know an arcade version existed. So I was living in a world of perpetual "WTF?" regarding the game until the internet came around a bit later and opened my eyes to many new things. Like free porn. Err I mean videogame knowledge. Also you've unwittingly given me an idea for a future episode about Sega arcade games.
I was that way with a lot of Sega Master System stuff. The internet showed up and I was like "that was on the SMS??"
I'm often accused of poaching your ideas, so anything I can give back(how ever indirect it may be), does my heart proud. ;)
@@SegaLordX There may be coincidental similarities here and there but I never feel that you rip me off, so no worries! :)
After playing the great Virtua Racing on the Switch, I hope they can bring this and Scud Race and many more titles over. They have a great catalogue don’t leave it all behind!
Will they ever do it..????
Remarkable that Daytona USA came out only two years later. What a leap that was.
Backwards step wasn't it? :P Seriously though, I'm utterly besotted at the moment with how incredible Sega's "throw enough sprites at it and it'll look real!" approach looks.
Happy 20th anniversary to the Dreamcast U.K launch 14th Oct 1999.
P.S - I bought a Mega Drive Mini so hopefully with enough sales Sega will look at making much more of their back catalogue available.
Outrunners is a great game. I had a Sega Genesis as a teenager. I'm now getting back into retro gaming and I picked up Outrunners a couple of months ago. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
I recently got the Arcade1up Outrun cabinet for my birthday (still haven't assembled it yet) which includes Outrun (obviously), Turbo Outrun, Power Drift, and Outrunners. I'm glad that Outrunners has been ported to something properly, though I would also welcome a Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, or PC release.
I always liked the sense of speed in Outrun games. Made you feel like you were really hauling ass.
There are a bunch of Sega Arcade racers I would love see a modern release, be it as they originally came out, or if they decide to modernize; Outrunners, Power Drift, Rad Mobile(I know Saturn got a version of this), Scud GT, F1 Exhaust Note, even Super Monaco GP (I appreciate the Genesis version which gave you a full season of races, but the arcade scaler was paired back on the way home), Sega has enough racers to bring out an anthology or 2.
Outrunners definitely needs a modern release, the Genesis version was a compromise; in order to add multiplayer the forced a splitscreen mode even in single player. The AI in single player had the worst rubberbanding which was present in 2 player as well, the further ahead you got, the more your car's performance would degrade. The shame was that Sega's Outrun on the Genesis was handled very well, and Sega developed single player Outrunners on the same engine might have been pretty good (i'd still expect some compromises but it would've been better than what we got).
The other thing is that Sega seemed to revisit plenty of the locales of Outrunners(as well as Outrun) in Outrun2 /SP/Coast to Coast; Egypt, Greece, France, Germany, Niagra Falls, the Grand Canyon, Pacific Islands and others are well represented in the Outrun 2 games. I hope this isn't the reason Sega hasn't bothered since with Outrunners.
Outrunners 2 (with modern versions of the unlicensed cars) would seem like a good way to realize Outrun 3.
My fav Sega arcade driving game is LeMans 24 hours, it's incredible, I loved it so much.
I never played it. But i would like to, since i like the 24 hours Le Mans. Only for arcade (which i don't have access), sadly...
@@ZoneofDoom it's my favorite. Was at the arcade hogging the machine the whole day before I was conscripted. Always use the secret Porsche car, there's also a secret Sonic car.
@@stevencsk79 Nice!
@@ZoneofDoom try emulating it.
@@NB-1 I really doubt that my non-gaming laptop will even run it properly. Beside, is there even a linux version of this emulator?
Personally I'd LOVE home versions of Outrunners, Rail Chase, Wild Riders, Dirt Devils , Scud Race, Golden Axe RoDA etc. Definitely quality games, but I'm not quite sure the audience is there.They might like them when they play them, but they won't be recognized by 95% of the gaming community. The could invest in an 'Arcade Legends' pack with 20 or so games, that might work.
I don't think the audience is there either - and the amount of work and investment needed to successfully port *even one* of these arcade games to modern platforms is *grossly* underestimated by many fans.
@@Fattydeposit I think so too. That said, if they decide to port them they could be sold on MANY formats (Steam, GOG, XBone, PS4, Switch, Android etc).
Question:
Do you need 95%of gaming community in order to make a profit? What percentage would make that feasible in your opinion?
@@mogo2433 That's very hard to estimate. Like SG6000 said, porting these games might be quite a bit of work.
@@Fattydeposit There really isn't that much work. Fans have done most of the heavy lifting. It is less of a risk than the Genesis mini.
It may happen one day. I was so surprised when I heard Capcom's Alien VS Predator Arcade game was getting rereleased.
Where?
@@SirPumpkinSlice Go on (capcomhomearcade.com) you'll find it there. Release date 8th Nov
I had thought it was a Genesis exclusive until I saw it at the Hockey Rink. Let me tell you, I didn't watch any hockey that day ;).
Soon as we got our seats I left to go back and play it. And I still remember it blowing my mind. And this was probably in the early 2000s. Always loved it on my Genesis but now I knew how it was meant to be.
My favorite game in the series. I always wanted an arcade perfect port at home.
Outrunners was awesome so many good memories. Thanks for the flashback
I remember playing football my sophomore year 92-93 , I was excited about our first night game as we had about 5 hours to kill (half day)and the team mobbed the UTC mall . I remember walking in to the Tilt arcade and hearing this loud dj announcing a race and the reve of an engine... I found OUTRUNNERS !!! What a great game . I had a great game as well and I will always remember that day I walked into the arcade and spent the whole time racing and then winning our first night game...
Still remember that day when I first saw this game at the small arcade across the street from my high school. The Mega Drive version is a joke. There is no way the MD could've replicate the arcade original, but it could present a solid game like the Outrun port if they did the game in single screen. And Sega was too lazy to port this game in-house. I am wondering if they ported this game to Mega CD, which has sprite zooming ability, how would it look like? I am surprised that with them kind of re-porting Tetris and Darius to Mega Drive Mini, why didn't they choose this game instead? This game would be a perfect fit to see what Mega CD is capable of.
All of the super scalar games should have went to the Sega CD after it's release instead of the genesis. Later others on the Sega Saturn along with the systems 32 games as well.
true, when i was young i bought all sega consoles i always hoped that this game came to my genesis, 32x, saturn, dreamcast
First experiencing / finding this game at the rec room of a Summer Camp is probably the most ideal way I can think of that happening.
My local arcade had 2 twin cabinets hooked up for 4-player action...it was so so good! Sega needs to bring this to the masses again somehow!
This game looks awesome. For me, Outrun was a game that I only played later on emulators. But if Outrunners came out on the Switch or something for the right price, I'd definitely pick it up now!
Still loving that new intro btw!
This would make a great 4 player local game on the Switch, 8 player if were to link 2 of them up.
I've always
thought Outrunners is incredibly underrated and overlooked. It is my favourite Outrun game from the franchise and it's frustrating to not have any (decent) home platform to play it (the fact this game isn't on Saturn makes no sense to me). Most of the brand new music tracks are dope here (Blow your Cool and Looking for The Rainbow are my favourites). I don't know why SEGA ignore this game so much...
If Sega made an Outrun collection with:
Outrun (Global and Japanese courses with smooth option)
Turbo Outrun
Outrunners
Outrun 2
then I'd give them my entire wallet without a second thought. They probably won't, but it's easy money.
This is on my TOP 3 podium of best games of all time. Both arcade and MegaDrive/Genesis versions.
My biggest desire is to see a remaster version by M2 for the SEGA AGES collection or a remake 3D version by Sumo Digital.
Thank you SEGA Lord X, delightful review 🙌🏻
I really like the small story you talked about at the beginning for Outrunners, it was cute and helped set the mood about the game.
I agree, if Sega should bring their arcade games to consoles, i would want to pay more if necessary. But not more then $ 20,-
Sega has so many IP's which would fit pretty well in the Sega Ages category. I also would not mind if they came with collections like Konami did with Castlevania, Contra and some Arcade classics.
An Outrun collection with not only Outrunners, but arcade perfect versions of all Outrun games (maybe even including Outrun 2) would be very nice!
And preferably be done by M2!
Thanks Sega Lord X! This takes me back to my childhood and that music is amazing!
Marc Kutchinski I love all his videos.
@@MikePSN09 same here!
Last wave on OUTRUNNERS is the reason why I always looked forward to playing it.. at the age of about 21.
Pipe dream: OutRunners would have been an impressive 32X title.
Great episode! Also how about a tribute to the Power Drift? that has to be my all time favorite arcade racer. The sit down version was simply awesome.
Good choice for a first game. I’d love a look into Racing Hero if you can for a future episode, I always loved that game. No port at all unfortunately but MAME does seem to run it perfectly.
Racing Hero is awesome too. I would love for that to get a proper home release.
I'm loving this game on the arcade1up outrun cabinet.
Was never a car guy but I could FEEL the passion of the Outrunners and Daytona devs in the aesthetics, music, animations and fluid gameplay. Really wish Sega or another games company had pitched Akira Toriyama the idea of making designs for a racing game like he did for Dragon Quest.
My story is my cousin lived in the suburbs and it had a huge Asian population so allot of cool stuff would be available. And at his local mall we kind of haphazardly tried out Outrunners and man super blown away. I rememeber changing tracks and just trying to beat my cousin by getting just that little bit further than him. As you can tell this game has strong memories for me.
I absolutely agree. This was my favourite. I’d also love to see Turbo Outrun and Powerdrift again.
One of my favorite games ever!!!!! Chucked many MANY coins into this subwoofer seat racing machine!!!!! On a modern system??? A straight port?? Fifty bucks is good. And updated polygon link system or online free for all????? With perks, extra cars, extra drivers, extra routes,????????? A hundred cold easily!!!! They might even get me to pre-order!!! Great retrospective dear brother!!!!! PEACE family.
I would have dropped a 20 on Virtua Racing, as I would with so many other of their awesome arcade racers. Thank you for shining a spotlight on Outrunners, it's my favorite game in the series and is also one of the earliest games to have Takenobu Mitsuyoshi on the soundtrack! Also to note, at least the game got a nod on digital music distributors, you can buy the Outrunners soundtrack as Out Run - Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2.
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I was very good at this game on the arcades. I finished every level with every cars. Fantastic game!
YATAAA! That hit of nostalgia in the intro! Man if yall never played Astal yall missing out. I needed that today.
I would kill for a super scaler compilation on modern consoles
I'd pay $30 for OutRunners done up by M2, with a slight coat of paint, but basically the same tried and true arcade game. If it got a physical release, I'd pay more. These games are legendary in the hearts of gamers from this era. Our very foundation is the arcade, and Sega is a gigantic reason for this.
Sega lost a lot of their old games so the question is do they even still have the code for this anymore? They definitely should go in and re-release games like this though, it won't require a massive budget and they would find an audience, certainly on the Switch
If fans with little resources can create it for emulators, surely Sega could without breaking the bank.
This is the most fun game of the series.
I had fond memories of leaving my mate in the dust with Quick Reactor. I was unbeatable XD
It was always a good race between the Quick Reactor, the Bad Boy, Smooth Operator and Easy Handling.
Wow! You couldn't of said it any better
Thank you
YES! It always made me wonder why the Saturn didnt get it. Absolutely loved this one. So sad we only got Data Easts 'efforts'.
It is possible that Arcade 1up could do something with Sega and release a version of this for their home arcade machines. If they did a Star Wars one and a Turtles one they could do games like this also.
I just want to say that I love your new intro so much. Gives me the early 90s vibes.
Would love to play this. I played the Genesis version via the Sega Channel and really enjoyed it; this is clearly such a step above but still beautifully retro.
what a genuine and likeable fella SLX is
I don't why Sega hasn't released a Arcade compilation yet. It would it would do so well. A first day purchase for me especially if it's on switch!!
Wow really dig the new intro! perfect blend of 80s/90s Sega and modern presentation!
En Buenos Aires, se encontraba a menudo en los centros recreativos los 4 módulos dobles, combinados para partidas de "8 - jugadores", al igual que con Virtua Racing. Posiblemente varios de esos equipos esten en galpones, esperando a ser devueltos a la luz.
Really loving your collection in the back. Outrun/Hangon Series was awesome! I never got the chance to play Outrunners, but I have heard of it. Time to check it out on emulators. :D
Now that I have seen the gameplay, I have seen it a few times as a kid at Dave and Busters and other Arcades, but it was always hogged by folks so I never got the chance to actually try it.
With all the polygonal 3D craze going on during the Saturn's lifetime, I understand why scaling games took a backseat.
Maybe it would have been at home on the 32X.
Your right. I almost hate to discover awesome Sega arcade games that never get (proper) home ports because my laptop is garbo and can only play some of em. Outrunners, Daytona 2, Scud race, planet harriers, ect. Heck could we have a collection of em in a pack? Would be a day one purchase!
That is one beautiful game. I'd love it if sega went back and made some new system 32 style games.
As it turns out, Arcade1Up announced an OutRun arcade cabinet that not only features OutRun, but also Turbo OutRun, OutRunners and Power Drift. I'll guarantee that all four games will be arcade perfect, and will be the only way to legally and truly live the arcade OutRunners experience.
That's awesome. And yes I would gladly pay a lil more to have the access to these gems.👊💥✌
I need Outrunners 2.
Agree 100% with all said. Sega was sitting on golden eggs.
I can imagine Nintendo's surprise by how badly Sega was managed and now even worse.
Sega can earn thousands of dollars from me alone. Please take my money, Sega
One other thing about OutRunners that would make it ideal for Sega AGES: the cars are cartoonish and, while you can guess which real world cars inspired them, Sega made the cars different enough from their inspirations that I don't think there would be any licensing issues, unlike the Sega AGES version of the original OutRun where they had to change the appearance of not just the Testarossa but also the drone traffic cars to avoid any trademark infringements.
camping and finding awesome sega games like outrunners, thats my experience to a T!
Loves nature, but it was also great when the campgrounds would have sick arcade games because youd find stuff that you'd never see anywhere else.
Stuff that you wouldn't see again until years later when info on the internet became more reliable or accessible.
This was SO MUCH FUN on 2 players!
We need a Sega arcade racer collection. Le Mans , scud Racer, Indy 500 , Daytonas, out runs
Yancade hand built games machines Power Drift too.
Wow I'm a huge Outrun fan myself and I've NEVER seen this game before! I gotta say, this game really does look amazing! It's Outrun, but twice as nice! Man looking at the gameplay footage in this video really took my mind out of this #$%!!y world for a moment lol. Speaking of Outrun, I don't think anyone on youtube did what I'm about to say right now: why don't you shine a light on Outrun 2019? I mean we're in 2019 and the year is almost over so might as well! 😄
Feel your pain SLX......No Doubt it would be GREAT! thanks for vid. keep em coming.
I just got Outrun2 for the og Xbox and it’s friggin great! It quietly includes Outrun as well. I think a new Outrun collection, including Outrunners and a new game would be a good seller.
Just got the arcade PCB of that.
In the making of a jamma compatible harness and wiring a racing wheel.
I most definitely would buy outrunners. I was a huge fan of Both outrun games and would love to play it on my xbox.
Agree! Would totally pay for this port!
I'm surprised you mention the music in the game but not the unique implementation in the cabinet to have a separate dot matrix display just for the radio. That was the coolest feature on the cabinet. And the force feedback on the wheel that would push and pull it away from you when you crashed.
It makes me wonder if Sega lost the source for some of the older arcade games
They would all be written in assembler most likely anyway. Its not hard to reverse assembler, but its not easy to port either.
4:39 I think this crash also adds to the comedic appeal if I do say so myself
Out Runner looks n plays better than most modern polygonal racing games today. Miss the super scalar games...
Great video. Personally, this game is one of the most important games in their back catalog. Now that we have a very good port of Power Drift on 3ds (and it is very satisfying to play on a new 3ds with head tracking to keep 3d seamless) it boggles my mind that Outrunners has not gotten the green light for a classics collection or Sega Ages dlcs. Look, 20 is not gonna kill me, in fact I agree, Outrunners is totally worth it for the variety of drivers, cars, tracks and the amazing scaling. C'mon Sega! Listen to SLX.
Looks really cool! Amazing what the sprite scaler could do! Would love to play it in an arcade one day :D
It's criminal that this was "ported" to the Genesis and forgotten about.
We need a perfect home port.
I couldn't agree more- although I think some of the more recent arcade releases (think Model 3 and up) would probably gain more of an audience- these are the games that a larger number of those who game now are likely to have seen or still see in arcades today. Also, I completely agree with many other comments here- these awesome games would present much better value and appeal as a collection- imagine a model 2/3 racer collection, an arcade shooter classics pack with Lost World and Virtua Cop 3 in it- those would surely do well?
I love your stuff man, and although I watch all of you console videos, personally I'd love to follow a long series of actual arcade games (not ports, and emulate them). Please take us through the sega arcade system evolutions and the sick games for each.. I'd be in heaven.
I have a modded OG Xbox that has Outrunners and a ton of other MAME and console games. There are over 20,000 games on it. My personal favorite game on it is the complete OG Xbox version of Kameo: Elements of Power, which was never released! The modder who made the Xbox obviously loves his customers..
Wave Runners! I will never forget Sega for not making a home port of Wave Runners!!!
I'm fairly certain I played this game when I was a little baby (born in '92). I always felt Outrun was familiar because I played in the arcade at one point. I think this is the one I'm remembering.
Come on Sega! Let's have it! The time is now!
In my opinion, I think OutRunners should be remade spiritually in HD polygons by Aquiris Game Studio, the makers of the excellent Top Gear homage, Horizon Chase Turbo/World Tour. The work they've done for that game is phenomenal.
You called this into existence.
I would buy it in a heart beat. In fact, I would buy the outrun 1 up arcade if outrunners were in mph instead of kmh.
Also a note, manual cars has a higher top speed as far as the Arcade goes and the home port kept me very busy, certain tricks could net you over 300mph with mad power, wild chaser if timed right could blast up to 283mph before it eases down to its natural top speed, speed buster was a record breaker , and that knockout mode where you raced for pinks was super compedative
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I bought all the arcade, Dreamcast, and Saturn releases on PSN when they came out on PS3. I'd buy any more they release, too, but they seem content to be a Sonic company that re-releases Sega Genesis games every generation.
Sega had another over-the-top racing game kind of like this but had up to 4- or even 8 players at once if linked together. Remember what its name was? I remember it in the arcade once as a kid and was blown away.
There are several of these: there was Power Drift which had you driving go-karts for several laps around various courses (some feeling like a rollercoaster), Outrunners itself could also link up several units for up to 8 players, Virtua Racing and Daytona USA had 8 players linkable...
I literally spend way too much money to play this game. A few hours in the weekends for a few years. In Malaysia there are few arcades that has this in 8 player link up. Yes 4 cabinets together not indifferent to Daytona. That was a blast.
good lord it looks spectacular...I would pay a lot more than $8 MUCH MORE for this treasure.
So true about the fans wanting more of the right games.
Agree! Expand the Sega Ages library with games like Outrunners😀 Not only games like Sonic the Hedgehog which we already have on several systems
I personally feel it wouldn't make the money it needed - as much as I love and agree to these games values.
Sega might have much more luck by releasing a SEGA ARCADE ULTIMATE COLLECTION type of deal which simply emulated all arcade games that have yet to be released.
Yes it would mean a standardization for each system type but be much more cost effective than individual Sega ages releases. Great video as always bro.