This article is about the arcade game. For the album by Kavinsky, see OutRun (album). For the music genre, see Synthwave.
1986 video game
Out Run
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)
Sega
Publisher(s)
WW: Sega (arcade)
EU: U.S. Gold (computers)
Designer(s)
Yu Suzuki
Composer(s)
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Series
Out Run
Platform(s)
Arcade
Master System
Mega Drive/Genesis
NEC PC-8801
Atari ST
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
Game Gear
MSX
PC Engine
MS-DOS
Saturn
ZX Spectrum
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo 3DS
Switch
Release
September 4, 1986
Arcade
JP: September 4, 1986[2][3]
NA: November 1986[1]
EU: December 1986[4]
C64, CPC, ZX
EU: December 10, 1987[5]
Genre(s)
Driving
Mode(s)
Single-player
Arcade system
Sega OutRun
Out Run[a] (also stylized as OutRun) is an arcade driving video game released by Sega in September 1986. It is known for its pioneering hardware and graphics, nonlinear gameplay, a selectable soundtrack with music composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and the hydraulic motion simulator deluxe arcade cabinet. The goal is to avoid traffic and reach one of five destinations.
The game was designed by Yu Suzuki, who traveled to Europe to gain inspiration for the game's stages. Suzuki had a small team and only ten months to program the game, leaving him to do most of the work himself. The game was a critical and commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing arcade game of 1987 worldwide as well as Sega's most successful arcade cabinet of the 1980s. It was ported to numerous video game consoles and home computers, becoming one of the best-selling video games at the time and selling millions of copies worldwide, and it spawned a number of sequels. Out Run is considered one of the most influential and greatest games ever made, cited as an influence upon numerous later video games, playing a role in the arcade video game industry's recovery, and providing the name for a popular music genre.
^Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 131. ISBN 978-4990251215.
^"Out Run (Registration Number PA0000302606)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
^"Sega Arcade History: 1986". Mega Drive Fan (in Japanese). No. 25 (February 1992). 8 January 1992. pp. 82–84 (83).
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^"Out Run". Computer and Video Games. No. 75 (January 1988). United Kingdom: EMAP. 15 December 1987. pp. 136–7.
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