Turbo Outrun

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Turbo OutRun
Turbo Outrun
Japanese arcade flyer
Developer(s) Sega AM2
Publisher(s) Sega
Designer(s) Yu Suzuki
Composer(s) Arcade:
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Yasuhiro Takagi
Commodore 64:
Jeroen Tel
Platforms Arcade
Computers:
Atari ST, Commodore C64, Commodore Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, PC DOS, FM Towns
Consoles:
Sega Mega Drive
Release date(s) Arcade
    Amstrad CPC
      Commodore 64
        ZX Spectrum
          Sega Mega Drive
              Master System
                Genre(s) Racing
                Mode(s) Single-player
                Cabinet Sit-down, upright
                Arcade system Out Run hardware
                CPU CPU: (2x) 68000 (@ 12.5 MHz)
                Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 4 MHz)
                Chips: YM2151 (@ 4 MHz), Sega PCM (@ 15.625 kHz)
                Display Raster, 320 x 224 pixels (Horizontal), 12288 colors

                Turbo OutRun (ターボアウトラン) is a 1989 arcade racing game released by Sega. A follow-up to 1986's Out Run, it was released as a dedicated game, as well as an upgrade kit for the original Out Run board.

                Like it predecessor, Turbo OutRun has players driving a Ferrari, this time a Ferrari F40. Players now traverse a set route across the entire continental United States from New York City to Los Angeles instead of the branching paths of the first game. In addition to a time limit, Turbo OutRun also adds a computer-controlled opponent driving a Porsche 959. The "Turbo" in the title also plays a factor as players can now press a button to receive a brief turbo boost of speed. Various power-ups which increase the vehicle's attributes can now be chosen at various stages of the game.

                Ports of Turbo OutRun were released for personal computers, as well as Sega's own Master System and Mega Drive.

                Overview

                Turbo Outrun the player in control of a male driver sitting alongside his girlfriend in a Ferrari F40, racing against the clock and a computer-controlled opponent in a blue Porsche 959 in a race across the United States. The goal is to reach Los Angeles from a starting point of New York City. Unlike the original Out Run, however, there are no branch roads to choose from. Instead, there is only one way from the start to the end of the road.

                The most notable feature of this game, which most players remember it for, is the fact that the player can increase speed by using turbo boost by pressing a button on the side of the console-mounted shifter and the engine temperature will increase in kind on the on-screen gauge. When the gauge reaches "OVERHEAT!" turbo boost cannot be used until the temperature decreases.

                Another notable difference is that police cars occasionally appear that try to stop the player. They have to either be outrun by using the turbo boost or destroyed by the player by ramming them off-road and into an object on the side of the road.

                At every sub-goal (reached after passing through about four cities), a power-up can be chosen, the three being: Hi-Power Engine, Special Turbo, and Super Grip Tires. If the CPU opponent reaches the sub-goal before the player, at the next race, the driver's girlfriend will move to the opponent's car. He can still win the girl back if he beats the CPU opponent to the next sub-goal. If the player beats the opponent with the girl in hand, a 1,000,000 point bonus is given. Also, the girl kisses the driver in front of his CPU opponent. If the player reaches the final checkpoint, in the process, the player will pass the CPU opponent and the ending scene is played.

                It was available in a stand-up cabinet, and a sit-down cabinet with decals giving it an appearance of a Ferrari F40, the car featured in the game. There were also conversion kits available to convert original Out Run machines to Turbo OutRun.

                Computer ports of the game were received with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Commodore 64 version was widely seen as a good game but 16-bit conversions got very negative reviews.

                Stage Order

                The courses are raced straightforward in 4 sections consisting of 4 stages each with no fork roads.

                Some of the stages are not accurately portrayed to their real life counterparts. For example: Atlanta is nothing more than a field covered in snow (more resembling Stone Mountain Park) and Dallas looks like the Gobi Desert.

                Music

                Unlike the 1986 original game Out Run, the music cannot be selected, rather the games background music play in each section of the game in this order:

                Overseas Layout:

                • Rush a Difficulty (Stages 1–4)
                • Keep Your Heart (Stages 5–8)
                • Shake the Street (Stages 9–12)
                • Who Are You? (Stages 13–16)

                Japan Layout:

                • Shake the Street (Stages 1–4)
                • Rush a Difficulty (Stages 5–8)
                • Who Are You? (Stages 9–12)
                • Keep Your Heart (Stages 13–16)

                Commodore 64 soundtrack

                The Commodore 64 home version soundtrack, composed and arranged by Jeroen Tel, was well received. The soundtrack won the "Best music on 8-bit computer 1989" award on European Computer Trade Show. The title track is a remix of "Magical Sound Shower" from Out Run, featuring sound samples from Jeroen Tel himself; due to sampling quality, he was actually saying "One, two, tree... hit it, Out Run" while recording, instead of "three", to avoid it sounding like "free".[1]

                In the 1993 arcade game Daytona USA, a song from Turbo Outrun can be played on the name entry screen by entering the initials TOR. The result is the opening couple of bars of "Rush A Difficulty".

                Sega Mega Drive soundtrack

                The Sega Mega Drive home version soundtrack features rearranged versions of all eight tracks, with the addition of the tracks "Shine County" and "Night Ride". It is unknown who the composer is, due to the lack of in-game credits.

                Releases

                Note: Turbo Outrun was never released on home console in North America.

                Reception

                Reception
                Review scores
                Publication Score
                CVG 93% (C64)[3]
                Crash 79% (Spectrum)[2]
                Sinclair User 78% (Spectrum)[4]
                Your Sinclair 70% (Spectrum)[5]
                Commodore User 8/10 (Arcade)[6]
                Zzap!64 97% (C64)[7]
                MegaTech 41% (Mega Drive)[8]
                Mega 53% (Mega Drive)[9]
                ACE 601/1000 (Amiga/ST)[10]
                Award
                Publication Award
                Zzap!64 Gold Medal

                Turbo Outrun received positive to mixed reviews, depending on the version. The arcade and Commodore 64 versions were well received. Commodore User reviewed the arcade version and scored it 8 out of 10.[6] The C64 version was awarded 93% from C+VG and 97% in Zzap!64.[11] The Spectrum version of the game received 70% from Your Sinclair, 78% from Sinclair User and 79% from Crash.[5] Mega placed the Mega Drive version at #3 in their list of the 10 Worst Mega Drive Games of All Time.[12]

                References

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                3. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/cvg-magazine-097/CVG_097_Dec_1989#page/n55/mode/2up
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                6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://archive.org/stream/commodore-user-magazine-68/Commodore_User_Issue_68_1989_May#page/n95/mode/2up
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                8. ↑ MegaTech rating, EMAP, issue 5, page 79, May 1992
                9. ↑ Mega rating, issue 9, page 23, Future Publishing, June 1993
                10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
                11. ↑ See box art for the C64 conversion
                12. ↑ Mega magazine issue 1, page 85, Future Publishing, Oct 1992

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