Platform: Sega Master System Released: 1987
Remember back in the days when you'd spend a Saturday night at the local arcade feeding quarters into dozens of video game cabinets to flex your gaming muscles? I sure do, and one of those games I fed numerous quarters to was Out Run. Now Sega Master System owners were lucky - they didn't have to keep feeding quarters to get their Out Run fix. The idea of Out Run was simple - drive to the checkpoints before time runs out. Of course, dodging other cars and making your way through several different landscapes makes this much harder than it seems. Out Run was just plain fun. Its 3D effects and graphics were some of the best of its time. You just hopped in the car with your girlfriend and put the pedal to the metal. Another thing that made Out Run great was it was always changing - You could choose your route, giving the game 16 different route variations. And where you end determined your ending. Out Run has been called by some not a "racing" game, but a "driving" game instead.
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This was one of my favorite arcade games...but then again I didn't go to the arcade that much. I remember playing it at the mall a lot though and it was probably the best driving or racing game of its time...or at least the most fun.
- Kevin
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