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Out Run (1986)

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For best audio results, listen with your left speaker only and mute the right speaker; sorry for these audio issues that came up with this show!

Recorded/Aired on August 17th, 2024

We're once again back to a classic Sega arcade driving game classic here on #SuperOldGameSaturday and once again, we had audio problems like we did with Daytona USA back in April (which are mitigated, admittingly, by muting the right speaker). I'm not going to beat around the bush and I'm really disappointed that it happened, especially since this was a viewer request from ElecVerse for 1986's Out Run, which we used the Sega Ages Out Run version on Nintendo Switch for our first full look at this game, but given the audio problems, we'll come back to this again. For now, though, while I was blissfully unaware of that elephant in the room, I had a great time reliving my memories with this classic as we drove our Ferrari Testerossa through all of the stages, all of the paths, all of the goals, while listening to all of the great music and experiencing all of the extras in this $8 download version that may be the definitive way to play this game. DollyFinn joined us in the best chat on Twitch as we all celebrated this one and went into our history with it, other Sega arcade releases, the Sega Ages line on this console and much more, including an extra look-ahead to some future games and future show ideas with a trip to the Nintendo Switch eShop. Again, I'm sorry about the audio problems we had (which I'm doing everything to fix, now that it's better isolated having now happened in our new studio), but this was another great show for a great game that we'll come back to for a future and improved look at (and DollyFinn since called dibs on our return). In the meantime, hope you enjoy our summer drive with Sega Ages Out Run (and if you like what you see, stop by   / captainditrag   to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week and also, to see the schedule for our next show, which will be this Saturday at 7 PM EST)!

Also, here's the Link List, with links to everything I & chat referenced on this show:

Links to the Siskel & Ebert reviews of both of the Cannonball Run films, the first of which Yu Suzuki used as inspiration for this game, courtesy of
ImHostingSNL and HazBeenEdits on YouTube, respectively:

   • The Cannonball Run (1981) movie revie...  

   • Siskel & Ebert / Cannonball Run II / ...  

A link explaining the audio ROM chip corruption issue that the original Out Run game had and that was not found/fixed until 2006, courtesy of reassembler via blogspot.com:

https://reassembler.blogspot.com/2013...

A link to the 1972 song Take It Easy from The Eagles, courtesy of Eagles on YouTube:

   • Take It Easy (2018 Remaster)  

A link to the 1974 song, El Camino De Mi Amor by Los Tijuana Jets, which may potentially be referenced in the song Camino A Mi Amor from this game, provided by DollyFinn and courtesy of Frontera Collection on YouTube:

   • Los Tijuana Jets - El Camino De Mi Am...  

A link to a list of all of the Sega games that, believe it or not, got ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System, courtesy of SegaRetro.org:

https://segaretro.org/Category:NES_games

A link to the G4 2006 interview with then Sega of America president Simon Jeffery about the focus on a worldwide perspective for/influence by Sega that starts at 49:39 of the link, courtesy of thexplay vault on YouTube:

   • G4 - E3 06 Live! Day 3