OutRun Longplay (Game Boy Color) [4K] [Homebrew] [2025]
123Game Info
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Developer: Rocketship Park (Shane McCafferty)
Year of Release: 2025
Download Link: https://rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outrun
Music by Sloopygoop: https://linktr.ee/sloopygoop
Buy Hero GP: https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/hero-gp-game-boy
Game Review & Impressions
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I'd been following progress of Shane McCafferty's "What if OutRun Came to the Game Boy Color?" project on social media for a while now, and I was quite excited to see this awesome passion project had been released to the public. It was worth the wait, because this is an awesome little game.
Technically, I suspect the game uses code from McCafferty's recent and wholly original superbike racer for the Game Boy Color, Hero GP (see links at the top of the description).
The game packs in as many features from the arcade original as possible, including the ability to pick your route through the game, fantastic visuals, and some awesomely crunchy chiptune recreations of OutRun's legendary soundtrack, courtesy of Sloopygoop. There are some concessions because of the limitations of the platform, but it's still a bloody excellent conversion.
I don't think there's any way to leave a tip on Shane's itch.io page, which is perhaps understandable, given that Sega owns the IP and this isn't an official project as such. However, I thought the best way to show support was pay the paltry few dollars it cost for a copy of Hero GP, and if you have as much fun with this "What if" deport of OutRun for the GBC as I did, I encourage you to do the same.
Chapters
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00:00 Route A
07:27 Route B
14:24 Route C
21:41 Route D
29:08 Route E