Outrun (Tandy)
Outrun, pc conversion of the 1986 arcade original by Unlimited Software and published by Sega in 1989.
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Player's Review
"Speed! Power! The road's all yours.
Hot car. Hot music. Sensational scenery. It's all part of the home computer version of one of the hottest games ever to hit the arcade circuit. Slip inside one of the fastest machines on four wheels. Then step on it. Cruise past the beaches of southern France, California's Death Valley, cities, mountains, and much more. And leave the others in the dust. Get a good grip on the wheel. Because this baby is pure power. And she could try to get away from you."
The pc game supports a few different configurations including mcga,ega,cga,vga and Tandy which is being used here running the game with 16 colours and 3 channel sound. Non Tandy compatible machines only used a single channel pc speaker for output. The cpu speed is a little high here making the game faster than it would likely have been played at the time but being pc, it's as fast as the cpu you put in it!
It's not a great conversion. the car slides weirdly like it has momentum but at least you can crash as much as you like as with a fast cpu the challenge of time is negated. There is no warning when the road split is coming up so you need to be prepared for it to appear if you have a particular route in mind. It looks and plays better than the Atari/Amiga game for sure and a Tandy pc is the best way to play this release of the game.
The longplay shows multiple runs to reach each ending which is different for each which is a plus point. I select each music piece and even switch to a second version of the game to show a different announcer voice.
00:00:00 Course / Ending A
00:06:25 Course / Ending B
00:11:23 Course / Ending C
00:16:28 Course / Ending D
00:21:55 Course / Ending E
Hot car. Hot music. Sensational scenery. It's all part of the home computer version of one of the hottest games ever to hit the arcade circuit. Slip inside one of the fastest machines on four wheels. Then step on it. Cruise past the beaches of southern France, California's Death Valley, cities, mountains, and much more. And leave the others in the dust. Get a good grip on the wheel. Because this baby is pure power. And she could try to get away from you."
The pc game supports a few different configurations including mcga,ega,cga,vga and Tandy which is being used here running the game with 16 colours and 3 channel sound. Non Tandy compatible machines only used a single channel pc speaker for output. The cpu speed is a little high here making the game faster than it would likely have been played at the time but being pc, it's as fast as the cpu you put in it!
It's not a great conversion. the car slides weirdly like it has momentum but at least you can crash as much as you like as with a fast cpu the challenge of time is negated. There is no warning when the road split is coming up so you need to be prepared for it to appear if you have a particular route in mind. It looks and plays better than the Atari/Amiga game for sure and a Tandy pc is the best way to play this release of the game.
The longplay shows multiple runs to reach each ending which is different for each which is a plus point. I select each music piece and even switch to a second version of the game to show a different announcer voice.
00:00:00 Course / Ending A
00:06:25 Course / Ending B
00:11:23 Course / Ending C
00:16:28 Course / Ending D
00:21:55 Course / Ending E
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