Used to upset me to no end on the C64. You couldn't pick your routes in-game, you had to load your desired route. They included a cassette with the arcade music just to upset you even more reminding you you had a shitty home computer. Ok the C64 wasn't shitty but outrun-c64 was!
is it me, or did sega pruposely release games on other hardware badly to make people buy their products? it seems to me that they were like "HAHAHAAA, buy a sega console, or you have to put up with a shit port of the game on a different console! MUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!"
I know that lol, I'm just saying that SEGA's products were never as good on non-SEGA consoles than if they were on SEGA consoles. they passed them down to 3rd party companies like U.S Gold or Virgin to make "ports" of their games.
What is it with commodore games and awesome game music? Did commodore programmers simply have a flair for music? Or did you have to be awesome in general to program commodores?
@unifiedreality Hi, I think the music sounds so good because I believe that the Commodore 64 had quite an advanced sound chip for its time, which was then replaced when the 128 came out for some reason, which was apparently not as good. :)
@unifiedreality Commodore programmers were genius! Paul Norman - who wrote Forbidden Forest, also wrote a helicopter simulation called Super Huey UHX - both published by COSMI - and they were both damn good!
I still love this version. Mainly because it reminds me of the time that I was longing for this game to arrive on the C64 back when I was a kid. I adored the Arcade version and couldn't wait to play it home. And BOY!!! What a disappointment THAT was... I was almost crying in disbelief... I tried liking it for months on end, and only after years I started appreciating the C64 version for what it was..."a nice try". Yet it was the first game I tried on the VICE C64 emulator years later ;-)
@berlinka check out the amstrad cpc version, which is the version i had to put with, i did cry in disbelief! :) , this version is amazing compared to that! :)
owned all the major 8 bit machines, and this was the best version, my msx suffered from the dreaded speccy port, and the amstrad version was just too slow.
the c64 and msx are my joint first for gaming, amstrad got really good at the end just too late.
a machine that was blighted more than most from poor spectrum conversions.
thankfully i cant remember that ever being a problem on the commadore.
commadore versions always seamed to be off a higher standard.
Very fast graphics; reproduces the feeling that the arcade also had! To bad they didn't pay more attention into refining the overall look of the game. But I still like Out Run on the C=64 the most, hehe.
There were (at least) two versions, tape, and floppy. Floppy version was more complex, it had more graphics and sound. I had both for the real system back then. :D
wow! this is incredible! i have the spectrum version, but this one is much better and faster!! i think is better than the amiga and atari st versions!!!
@thorgallpl look at some of the other games, IK+ and Ghost'n Gobblings for example. Much better than this, much better sound and graphics. This is horrible. It look like they made it in a rush.
@BringerOfTheTruth IK+ and GnG are different games. Racing games were awful for the 8 bits. they simply couldnt handle better graphics. what can you do with 1mhz? not much!
Me and my family visited a new mall, and it had a full cockpit version of outrun. It was such a blast, so when my birthday came up my dad had bought me the c64 version. It was a letdown in the graphics department compared to the arcade, but didn't stop it from being fun! Great music and beside the pitstop 2's two player mode it was the most fun driving game I recall on the c64.
sorry if i hurt your feelings, I didn't know you and the sid chip had something going on between you. don't cry too hard, i do have "shit taste" afterall.
@inphanta First off, Stop creeping! Just because i'm subscribed to atari ages channel doesn't make me a fanboy.
Secondly, I can't stand the sound of the C64, it makes me wanna barf
Thirdly, you C64 "Fanboy" , take a pill and relax it's just a fucking 28 year old piece of technology, it doesn't make you dinner or sleep with you; so you don't need to get that defensive.
@ldlrdrllrr: Oooh, struck a nerve, did I? OK then, well first off Mr. Look-At-Me-I'm-So-Controversial, your YouTube profile is public and available for anyone to view. Secondly, I can look wherever the fuck I want. Thirdly, I'm entitled to my opinion just the same as you. And fourthly, if you have such a hard time with people disagreeing with you, then don't post comments on YouTube channels. What's the matter, someone at Commodore murder your entirely family or something?
@inphanta uuuugghhhh I never said you weren't entitled to your opinion, people disagree with eachother all the time. I just saying people need to settle the fuck down when I say Commodore 64 music sucks monkey balls.
awesome post. The tunes just bring back so many happy memories! I'm pretty sure i have a casette tape from the game containing the 3 tracks. gonna have to have a look for it!
man where do you get you facts from??? the arcade version came 1st back in 86 i should know i'm 33 and held the biggest score in europe for 2 weeks, i still have my badge at home lol i was just 9 years old.
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@TrojanThug Outrun was released on C64 about 1 year before the arcade version. THIS is the original. If u search for Turbo Outrun , you'l see something more familiar graphix vise..
@anarkatt If thats true about the C64 being released before the arcade that would explain why the music from the arcade sounds more like a slower remix then the faster paste 64 sound. That would explain why the C64 is the only version of Out Run with the full 5 min version of Magical Sound Shower. And finally that would also explain why there was no Passing Breeze track. It was not created yet
@anarkatt: Nonsense. The arcade game was released in 1986, and this conversion 1987. It's common knowledge the arcade game came first. Why would arcade giant Sega (as they were at the time) make an arcade game based on a UK-coded home computer game? Think...
Ah. I kinda see how there would be. But why didn't they just use a different color that's already being used? That wouldn't do too much to slow down the game since the color's already in the palette.
@Purianite; When US Gold first started, their business revolved around publishing and distributing games by American companies like Synapse on the UK market. (IIRC they also converted some of those to other formats that were more popular in the UK, like the ZX Spectrum).
At any rate, it was a very appropriate name at that point. Later on they moved onto doing stuff in their own right, like this port of Out Run.
@Purianite; no, you're right, the US Gold home computer ports of Out Run are generally accepted to be rubbish. Although to be fair, nothing I said suggested otherwise- I was simply explaining why they were called "US Gold" when they weren't American themselves! (Actually, I see that illman76 already replied to you on that one anyway though...)
BTW, I think this port was done by an independent developer on US Gold's behalf- don't know if they ever had any "in house" development.
This game got pretty bad reviews in magazines, and rightly so. The only things savings it are the tunes which are catchy (but rather simplistic for a C64) and the fact that the game actually plays rather well.
I got an Amiga and Master System back then. SH*TE in all aspects...The PC-Engine and Mega Drive conversions were finally better. And Sega Ages Out Run on Saturn the 1st satisfaction as it was 1:1 arcade or even better with optional 60FPS. :-)
although the amiga had the graphical advantage they made a right cock up of it looked like the bluepeter team made it out of cardboard ,,, but yeah did like the c64 version was closer to the real thing then most systems the speccy looked like a clone although shame about lack of color heh though prob a good thing if it was us golds atari/amiga version
Great music - when you consider generally musicians had 4k to fit their tunes into!!! That's 4kilobytes. that's 4,000th's of a megabyte or 400,000th's of a gigabyte!
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it just doesn't fit. you can't really make a game like outrun fun with 8-bit (or whatever) graphics. and that music is just so annoying! (not that the stuff from the real game was any better!)
It always happened. Usually a 16 bit arcade game was converted to 8 bit home computers, and the result was often a horrible unplayable mess.
One thinks of Atari's Hard Drivin' been converted to the Sinclair Spectrum here. The original arcade version used a 16bit 68000 CPU plus dedicated DSPs for the 3D effects. What came out for the Spectrum was a horrible very jerky unplayable game.
See also Street Fighter converted to 8 bit formats by Tiertex.
I think the game that epitomizes that statement is (what's it called now...... 3, 2, 1, Boom) SPACE HARRIER! (phew!) how many years has it been before a full-fledged arcade-feel port came home?
but that was when home consoles struggled to meet arcade standards. Though, I do think that arcade versions > home console versions to this day.
My memory of that game is really sketchy. Maybe the Spectrum was called Nark, or maybe it was the boss' name. It was that stage in which I had to face all the Bosses for the last time. 32x version is what I'm talking about. Never played any of the others.
Luckily the only place i was unlucky enough to find this was on some us gold compilation. And as you might imagine it got played maybe twice. Once just to see how awful it was. Twice just to make sure. I just asked myself why bother? The arcade original was only exciting because it came in a big show off cabinet. To port it to the 64 was always gonna be pointless. Same with space harrier which if i remember right was even worse. Loved the c64. Loathed this kind of cash in crap.......
the thing about this game is.... You actually feel as though you are actually playing Outrun. The speed, and the high frame-rate (not to mention the music) are beyond reproach. The best 8-bit conv
man I used to love this game back in the 80s when i was still a school boy!!! god that seems like such along time ago, wher did all the years go. Anyway thanks for reminding me of my youth
Nicely played mate, but fookinell is that it? The full game? Talk about fookin short. I bet most people that bought it back in the day weren't that good at it, so probably never got to see just how short it actually was. Still, I think it looks cool, and you just can't beat the SID chip, still makes the best sounds ever. For the time the game looks great, and set the benchmark for future games to come, even the amazing looking racers of today, they owe LOOADDSSSS to Outrun. Cheers!
You can't beat nostalgia, especially of the C64 variety :-D But, these days they just don't make nostalgia like they used to any more lol, that's why everyone still loves their C64's :)
Maybe, Passing Breeze is missing, cause you can only use 2 channels of the SID, the third one is used for SFX, or another guess, the memory of the C64 is not enough for loading 3 tunes at once, and the game came originally on tape, so you cannot load it after loading the game so easily.
Ah, one of the better ports of Outrun! I played it on my C64 in 2003 when I had my C64 retro flash back then, I still love this version altough it lacks the stage select part! But It has good Music pretty good graphics for a C64 and it delivers the sense of Speed from the Arcade original! Good job prope!
Blimey mate it aint that bad, there's far worse games on the 64. This looks pretty cool to me, and to see someone play it well shows the (short) game off well too
wow. thx for upload this film. you take me back to the time when many 80`s games was totaly great to play them. and i had this game and outrun was my favvorite game! nice playing btw. :D
it was fuck all like the arcade version, the bitch didn't even have blonde hair. Shittest conversion ever. Even the Amstrad 464 version had better graphics for the time than this pile ov shite.
Cos your from the U.S jsm94, and i am from the U.K you'll have to appreciate that there is a slight language difference, here in the U.K we do sometimes say, "shite" dunno why i haven't really even thought about it till you brought it to my attention. Anyway, when i was your age this is the standard of garbage (above) we had to make do with, be thankful you were born in 1994....
Old 8 bit commodore, but i think even more older one is atari game console lol, i naver had any of this 2, but i had seg 8 bit and 16, and super nintendo famicon with ancinect graphics
This one was crap compared to Turbo Outrun. Still they were both hampered by the fact the Commy could only cope with one other car on the screen at the same time!
The worst conversion made to date for any major system. But I liked it in the late 1980's because I hadn't seen the real thing yet!
kzbxvz 1 month ago
Just playing it now.Dont use brakes.Instead try gearing down on corners ect.
suzukix5owner 1 month ago
Splash Wave my all time favourite track in this game the others not so much
PieFights 2 months ago
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Awesome driving, u got da skillz. Though I think u killed the nice lady in the turquoise Volkswagen in stage 3 lol
toxwenius 4 months ago
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toxwenius 4 months ago
WOOOOOO! Wheelspin in 1st & second! doodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoo!STFU
De19thKingJulion 5 months ago
Used to upset me to no end on the C64. You couldn't pick your routes in-game, you had to load your desired route. They included a cassette with the arcade music just to upset you even more reminding you you had a shitty home computer. Ok the C64 wasn't shitty but outrun-c64 was!
gollumondrugs 6 months ago
Outrun ,Turbo Outrun & Outrun Europe !!! Commodore 64 made it possible !!! :)
76MKIIDub16V 6 months ago
is it me, or did sega pruposely release games on other hardware badly to make people buy their products? it seems to me that they were like "HAHAHAAA, buy a sega console, or you have to put up with a shit port of the game on a different console! MUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!"
figaro589 8 months ago
@figaro589 This is back in the era when Arcades were far superior to home consoles.
"Arcade Perfect" was very rarely heard of...These days it's the other way round.
KongoXIIV 7 months ago
@KongoXIIV
I know that lol, I'm just saying that SEGA's products were never as good on non-SEGA consoles than if they were on SEGA consoles. they passed them down to 3rd party companies like U.S Gold or Virgin to make "ports" of their games.
figaro589 7 months ago
beats the junk their puttin' out 2day
TJae1 9 months ago
What is it with commodore games and awesome game music? Did commodore programmers simply have a flair for music? Or did you have to be awesome in general to program commodores?
unifiedreality 10 months ago 6
@unifiedreality It's something to do with its sound chip.
Obli20v 9 months ago
@unifiedreality Hi, I think the music sounds so good because I believe that the Commodore 64 had quite an advanced sound chip for its time, which was then replaced when the 128 came out for some reason, which was apparently not as good. :)
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@unifiedreality Commodore programmers were genius! Paul Norman - who wrote Forbidden Forest, also wrote a helicopter simulation called Super Huey UHX - both published by COSMI - and they were both damn good!
HardWarUK 3 weeks ago
Forgotten how horrible the tyre skid sound was in this. Music is still funky, though.
KaitainCPS 11 months ago
That cloud is...
kanfor 11 months ago
tho there is no road, and i don't see why they couldn't have colored out side the lines brown at least, ya gotta admire the music!
y2k4ever1 11 months ago
I always hated USGold software back in the day !!
There name stood for crappy games
Pinman1973 1 year ago
I still love this version. Mainly because it reminds me of the time that I was longing for this game to arrive on the C64 back when I was a kid. I adored the Arcade version and couldn't wait to play it home. And BOY!!! What a disappointment THAT was... I was almost crying in disbelief... I tried liking it for months on end, and only after years I started appreciating the C64 version for what it was..."a nice try". Yet it was the first game I tried on the VICE C64 emulator years later ;-)
berlinka 1 year ago
@berlinka check out the amstrad cpc version, which is the version i had to put with, i did cry in disbelief! :) , this version is amazing compared to that! :)
MrDalley 9 months ago
was this tool assisted?
Simon0 1 year ago
Remember playing this and it stll catch me up:)
StillJamming 1 year ago
Good old days...
palindrome06 1 year ago
US Gold were named as they were as I think that they were buying up the better US games and selling them on cheaply to the UK market.
snicklin99 1 year ago
owned all the major 8 bit machines, and this was the best version, my msx suffered from the dreaded speccy port, and the amstrad version was just too slow.
the c64 and msx are my joint first for gaming, amstrad got really good at the end just too late.
a machine that was blighted more than most from poor spectrum conversions.
thankfully i cant remember that ever being a problem on the commadore.
commadore versions always seamed to be off a higher standard.
hated that little tape deck though
cant1rac 1 year ago
Very fast graphics; reproduces the feeling that the arcade also had! To bad they didn't pay more attention into refining the overall look of the game. But I still like Out Run on the C=64 the most, hehe.
edzzzwin 1 year ago
splach wave for the music one of my alltime fav music tracks for this game
PieFights 1 year ago
the b side of the game tape had the actual arcade music that you could put in your hi-fi and listen to
markzilla6969 1 year ago
There were (at least) two versions, tape, and floppy. Floppy version was more complex, it had more graphics and sound. I had both for the real system back then. :D
od090 1 year ago
the music is well good!! cant belive its coming from an 8bit computer!!
deekay1182 1 year ago
wow! this is incredible! i have the spectrum version, but this one is much better and faster!! i think is better than the amiga and atari st versions!!!
LizanaProject 1 year ago
This is bad..Commodore 64 is able to so much more.
BringerOfTheTruth 1 year ago
@BringerOfTheTruth oh really? i dont think so.
thorgallpl 1 year ago
@thorgallpl look at some of the other games, IK+ and Ghost'n Gobblings for example. Much better than this, much better sound and graphics. This is horrible. It look like they made it in a rush.
BringerOfTheTruth 1 year ago
@BringerOfTheTruth IK+ and GnG are different games. Racing games were awful for the 8 bits. they simply couldnt handle better graphics. what can you do with 1mhz? not much!
thorgallpl 1 year ago
@thorgallpl thats true, still I think it coulda been better with the right people behind it. I know for sure that the MUSIC coula been better.
BringerOfTheTruth 1 year ago
wow mitico c64 il mio primo computer avevo 12 anni fantastici giochi mi e venuta nostalgia di quei tempi e del mitico c64
indagato468 1 year ago
one of the worst conversion ever made....
tonymontana78bo 1 year ago
I was so fucking gutted when I loaded this onto my C64. So gutted. 20 years later some GENIUS created MAME. Love MAME.
CanineFaeces 1 year ago
NES gfx r waay better
aaroninclub 1 year ago
the best 8 bit version ,the big c64
xxaltered7xx 1 year ago
Me and my family visited a new mall, and it had a full cockpit version of outrun. It was such a blast, so when my birthday came up my dad had bought me the c64 version. It was a letdown in the graphics department compared to the arcade, but didn't stop it from being fun! Great music and beside the pitstop 2's two player mode it was the most fun driving game I recall on the c64.
moijk 1 year ago
the music is revolting, I can't stand the sound of the c64
ldlrdrllrr 1 year ago
@ldlrdrllrr
Then you have shit taste. One of the main reasons the C64 was so popular in the first place, was the amazing music the sid chip could deliver.
ChudFapper 1 year ago
sorry if i hurt your feelings, I didn't know you and the sid chip had something going on between you. don't cry too hard, i do have "shit taste" afterall.
ldlrdrllrr 1 year ago
@ldlrdrllrr: I've just seen your profile. You're an Atari fanboy. This explains a lot.
inphanta 1 year ago
@inphanta First off, Stop creeping! Just because i'm subscribed to atari ages channel doesn't make me a fanboy.
Secondly, I can't stand the sound of the C64, it makes me wanna barf
Thirdly, you C64 "Fanboy" , take a pill and relax it's just a fucking 28 year old piece of technology, it doesn't make you dinner or sleep with you; so you don't need to get that defensive.
ldlrdrllrr 1 year ago
@ldlrdrllrr: Oooh, struck a nerve, did I? OK then, well first off Mr. Look-At-Me-I'm-So-Controversial, your YouTube profile is public and available for anyone to view. Secondly, I can look wherever the fuck I want. Thirdly, I'm entitled to my opinion just the same as you. And fourthly, if you have such a hard time with people disagreeing with you, then don't post comments on YouTube channels. What's the matter, someone at Commodore murder your entirely family or something?
inphanta 1 year ago
@inphanta uuuugghhhh I never said you weren't entitled to your opinion, people disagree with eachother all the time. I just saying people need to settle the fuck down when I say Commodore 64 music sucks monkey balls.
ldlrdrllrr 1 year ago
awesome post. The tunes just bring back so many happy memories! I'm pretty sure i have a casette tape from the game containing the 3 tracks. gonna have to have a look for it!
superbike1981 1 year ago
Holy camoly ! amazing of what is capable a barely 1MHz cpu ! i just can't stop loving my good old C64 :)
Great video, and great play !
cheers
hallowman45 1 year ago
i thought Outrun was a sega franchise?
raveakidd 1 year ago
Music was always my favorit thing and game ofc is great :)
MrCroaticus 1 year ago
man where do you get you facts from??? the arcade version came 1st back in 86 i should know i'm 33 and held the biggest score in europe for 2 weeks, i still have my badge at home lol i was just 9 years old.
LiLLinz28 1 year ago
Now this is the C64 sid chip music I rememeber great times man great times!!!!
PieFights 1 year ago
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@TrojanThug Outrun was released on C64 about 1 year before the arcade version. THIS is the original. If u search for Turbo Outrun , you'l see something more familiar graphix vise..
anarkatt 1 year ago
that's definitely wrong....US Gold made a "conversion" of the coin-up from sega...
soldier501 1 year ago 6
Are you smoking something where you are? It must be damn good whatever it is!
blade004 1 year ago
No way. This was an arcade conversion. Remember playing the sit-down Sega game at a beachside arcade around a year before it came out on the 64.
KaitainCPS 1 year ago
@anarkatt If thats true about the C64 being released before the arcade that would explain why the music from the arcade sounds more like a slower remix then the faster paste 64 sound. That would explain why the C64 is the only version of Out Run with the full 5 min version of Magical Sound Shower. And finally that would also explain why there was no Passing Breeze track. It was not created yet
jeanton1 1 year ago
@anarkatt: Nonsense. The arcade game was released in 1986, and this conversion 1987. It's common knowledge the arcade game came first. Why would arcade giant Sega (as they were at the time) make an arcade game based on a UK-coded home computer game? Think...
inphanta 1 year ago
cute sound effects, especially on collisons lol
SteveFusionX 1 year ago
c64-4eva
leknightcluber 1 year ago
damn! i remember this!
Zolega89 1 year ago 2
oh, wait, that's just the beginning part.
03mrx 1 year ago
lol best stage 2 ever...
two stages from the original outrun jumbled together into just one stage!
03mrx 1 year ago
Stage 5. Who thought having no road was a good idea?
Plus, US Gold? Aren't they British? Why they chose that name I don't know.
Purianite 2 years ago
Trust me, There is actually road, but due to Video compression, it seems that there isn't road.
soldier501 2 years ago
Ah. I kinda see how there would be. But why didn't they just use a different color that's already being used? That wouldn't do too much to slow down the game since the color's already in the palette.
Purianite 2 years ago
@Purianite The name comes from the company's original set up, which was as an importer of American C64 software.
illman76 1 year ago
@illman76 Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Purianite 1 year ago
@Purianite; When US Gold first started, their business revolved around publishing and distributing games by American companies like Synapse on the UK market. (IIRC they also converted some of those to other formats that were more popular in the UK, like the ZX Spectrum).
At any rate, it was a very appropriate name at that point. Later on they moved onto doing stuff in their own right, like this port of Out Run.
NotATube 9 months ago
@NotATube I heard they didn't even do that great of a job with this port though.
Purianite 9 months ago
@Purianite; no, you're right, the US Gold home computer ports of Out Run are generally accepted to be rubbish. Although to be fair, nothing I said suggested otherwise- I was simply explaining why they were called "US Gold" when they weren't American themselves! (Actually, I see that illman76 already replied to you on that one anyway though...)
BTW, I think this port was done by an independent developer on US Gold's behalf- don't know if they ever had any "in house" development.
NotATube 9 months ago
@NotATube That might explain the questionable quality (no disrespect to indie devs, the ones who are prominent nowadays are excellent).
Purianite 9 months ago
@Purianite
Because US Gold were a publisher not a developer and guess what? yes that's right, they published games in the UK that were developed in the US.
firestarter72 9 months ago
@firestarter72 Yeah, illman76 cleared that up with me. I also looked them up on Wikipedia.
Purianite 9 months ago
cant believe I used to play this and think it was the cutting edge of racing games lol
feverpitch82 2 years ago 14
haha x)
RadenMan 2 years ago
haha... yeah... i feel you!!!!!!! ;) but i had so much fun with this!! for hours and days!! unbelieveble!!!!
klaasklont 1 year ago
@feverpitch82 Maybe Outrun was a good racing game for the C64 in 1987, but sadly the Commodore 64 wasn't built for any real decent racing games.
kzbxvz 1 year ago
@feverpitch82 lmfao me too :D
BillieJean900 4 months ago
Was there this game on commodore platform wow I did not know
xflegend 2 years ago
Where is the road in stage 5? I have to admit this is a pretty good conversion when put next to the speccy and coc versions
xtremecoasters 2 years ago
It's there, but Youtube reduced the quality so you cannot see it, because the colour of the road lines is almost the same as the colour of the road^^
soldier501 2 years ago
I broke lot of joysticks playing these games :)
projekativer 2 years ago
I used a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis controller instead (same plug and it's wired the same way according to the Atari standard) :)
SPeacock 2 years ago
i like the other song C64 was the shit growing up love the song ICP RULE
lkjyuiop 2 years ago
yea.. awful sounds.. goes rite thru my head..
i like the sid too.. but these music and sound effects suck
MysticReverie 2 years ago
What.. Outrun has great music but it sounds horrible on the c64, while I normally like c64 SIDs
redtails 2 years ago
Even the Spectrum 128K version with its inferior AY sound chip sounds better.
SPeacock 2 years ago
you are dreamer .........
owczarekn 2 years ago
Similar to Rad Racer, it think.
morrya 2 years ago
Wow Sega ported everything they could to anything that had a screen.
Deokishisu 2 years ago 2
Yeah - unlike Nintendo.
SPeacock 2 years ago
This game got pretty bad reviews in magazines, and rightly so. The only things savings it are the tunes which are catchy (but rather simplistic for a C64) and the fact that the game actually plays rather well.
tsuihark 2 years ago 2
Oh Outrun on the Commode 64, we likes that. Nice tunez. Far better than that dreadful LCD tabletop version.
mukatuna 2 years ago
Wow, excellent music and excellent graphics considering this is commodore 64.
iggy3200 2 years ago 2
C64 has excellent music anyway. :P
wrestletube1 2 years ago 4
Great Conversion!!!! Better than Amiga version
Fabbroz975 2 years ago
@Fabbroz975
I got an Amiga and Master System back then. SH*TE in all aspects...The PC-Engine and Mega Drive conversions were finally better. And Sega Ages Out Run on Saturn the 1st satisfaction as it was 1:1 arcade or even better with optional 60FPS. :-)
YuzoTibi 1 year ago
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@Fabbroz975; "Great Conversion!!!! Better than Amiga version"
Not convinced about that, but even if it was so, it's a pretty low bar given how lousy the Amiga conversion was :-/
NotATube 9 months ago
You should try to avoid the other cars. Just a tip...
Ahab2008 2 years ago
damn that guy in the red Porsche 911 with whale tail...
dinglenutzz 2 years ago
man theres alot of turning issues in the game, lol
I love karateka for the c64, I hope fist karate II comes too wii also,
xxbox6191 2 years ago
although the amiga had the graphical advantage they made a right cock up of it looked like the bluepeter team made it out of cardboard ,,, but yeah did like the c64 version was closer to the real thing then most systems the speccy looked like a clone although shame about lack of color heh though prob a good thing if it was us golds atari/amiga version
DJwhitepuff 2 years ago
They wud have been better off porting the C64 version instead of the ST version.
StupidComments1 2 years ago
Great times!
Torkil2 2 years ago 3
I paid £10 for that back in the day (I think) !? :D
I got Outrun 2006 for the PS2 cheaper than that, and then there's MAME. :)
beyond72 2 years ago
Its a shit game thou, nostalgia aside (or maybe Im just really crap at it)
mynameisloader 2 years ago
Great music - when you consider generally musicians had 4k to fit their tunes into!!! That's 4kilobytes. that's 4,000th's of a megabyte or 400,000th's of a gigabyte!
HardWarUK 2 years ago
good stuff ~ when will karateka ~ wii ~ be debuting?
TJae1 2 years ago
Alright I am considerned all these c64 video's are making me feel old now. !
Timsalt3100 2 years ago 2
Not always good stuff you hear about the C64 version but it's fairly exceptional in a number of ways - most importantly it feels like outrun
Adropacrich2 2 years ago
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it just doesn't fit. you can't really make a game like outrun fun with 8-bit (or whatever) graphics. and that music is just so annoying! (not that the stuff from the real game was any better!)
Drywall1911 2 years ago
It always happened. Usually a 16 bit arcade game was converted to 8 bit home computers, and the result was often a horrible unplayable mess.
One thinks of Atari's Hard Drivin' been converted to the Sinclair Spectrum here. The original arcade version used a 16bit 68000 CPU plus dedicated DSPs for the 3D effects. What came out for the Spectrum was a horrible very jerky unplayable game.
See also Street Fighter converted to 8 bit formats by Tiertex.
mukatuna 2 years ago
I think the game that epitomizes that statement is (what's it called now...... 3, 2, 1, Boom) SPACE HARRIER! (phew!) how many years has it been before a full-fledged arcade-feel port came home?
but that was when home consoles struggled to meet arcade standards. Though, I do think that arcade versions > home console versions to this day.
see ya.
ieatthat4breakfast 2 years ago
'Welcome to the Fantasy Zone! GET READY!' Spent hours playing this one in the arcades. Then there was the Sinclair Spectrum version.. Ugh.
mukatuna 2 years ago
My memory of that game is really sketchy. Maybe the Spectrum was called Nark, or maybe it was the boss' name. It was that stage in which I had to face all the Bosses for the last time. 32x version is what I'm talking about. Never played any of the others.
OOOOOOaaaaHHHHHhh! (if you remember)
ieatthat4breakfast 2 years ago
music beats the genesis'
Ohgodnofff 2 years ago 3
The Genesis? This music beats the PS3! Seriously I don't think it's just the nostalgia talking, the music seems really weak on the new versions.
staggabob 2 years ago 2
ha well, mgs4 has awesome music!
Gotta love chiptunes tho.
Ohgodnofff 2 years ago 2
I'm really crap at games admittedly, but one day i completed this on my C64 by playing with my feet...epic i know
bubblegumpaul 2 years ago
Using an Atari 2600 joystick
bubblegumpaul 2 years ago
Oh....I'm so nostalgic....those were days...:)
Boaminea 2 years ago 9
the fact that the girl didn't have blonde hair dissapointed me for some reason, must not have had many worries back in the day.
mrkallen 2 years ago
a long long time ago.....
thank you!
shorty121179 3 years ago
Luckily the only place i was unlucky enough to find this was on some us gold compilation. And as you might imagine it got played maybe twice. Once just to see how awful it was. Twice just to make sure. I just asked myself why bother? The arcade original was only exciting because it came in a big show off cabinet. To port it to the 64 was always gonna be pointless. Same with space harrier which if i remember right was even worse. Loved the c64. Loathed this kind of cash in crap.......
becomingzero 3 years ago
I was conned out of £9.95 and have never forgave them. Jerky pile of crap.
thighfungus 3 years ago
Think yourself lucky. I brought the Spectrum version.
Armalyte75 2 years ago
Yep, I bought the speccy version too. This C64 was by far the best 8-bit conversion. At least, in a fashion, the music was authentic.
verapelb 2 years ago
man i played this shit when i was little the music in the c64 game is still the best music
lkjyuiop 3 years ago
the thing about this game is.... You actually feel as though you are actually playing Outrun. The speed, and the high frame-rate (not to mention the music) are beyond reproach. The best 8-bit conv
madderscientist23 3 years ago 2
ohh my god.
I played that game on my comadore and i always pick that music number.
Fantastic too see it again :D
kbhilkhj 3 years ago
man I used to love this game back in the 80s when i was still a school boy!!! god that seems like such along time ago, wher did all the years go. Anyway thanks for reminding me of my youth
terrancejohn 3 years ago 2
I love this game. Got it for my C128....Sound first class, game more hell than heaven...bad port ;-)
ado1133 3 years ago
There are too many fucking Volkswagen Beatles in the way! Get out of the shitty way ze Ferrari is coming! :D
gaspingduck 3 years ago
Nicely played mate, but fookinell is that it? The full game? Talk about fookin short. I bet most people that bought it back in the day weren't that good at it, so probably never got to see just how short it actually was. Still, I think it looks cool, and you just can't beat the SID chip, still makes the best sounds ever. For the time the game looks great, and set the benchmark for future games to come, even the amazing looking racers of today, they owe LOOADDSSSS to Outrun. Cheers!
Ironlord2015 3 years ago
Oh my god, I remember that music. Soo nostalgic!
reverbstudios 3 years ago 2
You can't beat nostalgia, especially of the C64 variety :-D But, these days they just don't make nostalgia like they used to any more lol, that's why everyone still loves their C64's :)
Ironlord2015 3 years ago
This wasn't too bad. I was satisfied with this version and did enjoy playing it. But I think it could have been a little better. Even for the C64.
The only real disappointment for me is that it didn't have Passing Breeze as a music option.
tsntana 3 years ago
Maybe, Passing Breeze is missing, cause you can only use 2 channels of the SID, the third one is used for SFX, or another guess, the memory of the C64 is not enough for loading 3 tunes at once, and the game came originally on tape, so you cannot load it after loading the game so easily.
soldier501 3 years ago
Ah, one of the better ports of Outrun! I played it on my C64 in 2003 when I had my C64 retro flash back then, I still love this version altough it lacks the stage select part! But It has good Music pretty good graphics for a C64 and it delivers the sense of Speed from the Arcade original! Good job prope!
Tobibrocki 3 years ago
Cool, over 20k views Oo
soldier501 3 years ago
splash wave ruuuullleeesss!!!!!!!!
Simon0 3 years ago
...one of the worst coin-op conversion for c64..
freeman74tube 3 years ago
Blimey mate it aint that bad, there's far worse games on the 64. This looks pretty cool to me, and to see someone play it well shows the (short) game off well too
Ironlord2015 3 years ago 2
outrun..i played that when i was four years old
nice game!
hansuwepilz 3 years ago
wow. thx for upload this film. you take me back to the time when many 80`s games was totaly great to play them. and i had this game and outrun was my favvorite game! nice playing btw. :D
ensteffe 3 years ago
Damn! I had this on my C64. Unfortunately, it broke down within hours. (The machine, not the game)
SegaMegadriveMic 3 years ago
my c64 broke down, too. I had to buy another one on eBay :P
soldier501 3 years ago
dude if you want one i cn hook you up for 20$. i get them cheap at a local store
ericaesop 3 years ago
it was fuck all like the arcade version, the bitch didn't even have blonde hair. Shittest conversion ever. Even the Amstrad 464 version had better graphics for the time than this pile ov shite.
iletelyastraightmate 3 years ago
Learn how to spell shit! You spelled it like shite!
jakespidermonkey1994 3 years ago
Cos your from the U.S jsm94, and i am from the U.K you'll have to appreciate that there is a slight language difference, here in the U.K we do sometimes say, "shite" dunno why i haven't really even thought about it till you brought it to my attention. Anyway, when i was your age this is the standard of garbage (above) we had to make do with, be thankful you were born in 1994....
iletelyastraightmate 3 years ago
Sorry, I didn't know. I'll shut up now!
jakespidermonkey1994 3 years ago
I know, but I thought he meant the C64 version :p
soldier501 3 years ago
I loved this game. Great music. Does anyone know who composed it?
woolfool 3 years ago
The music's composed by Jason C. Brooke ;)
soldier501 3 years ago
I used to play this game on my C64!!
it06177 3 years ago
That music...goosepimples!
dhollseed 3 years ago
thats wierd i thought the c64 was more powerful than the nes and master system lol but look at it!
mjdoomreviews 3 years ago
The one thing that disappointed me with the C64 version was that you had to load every route separately.
ballebanan 3 years ago
Yes, that's true -.-
soldier501 3 years ago
Old 8 bit commodore, but i think even more older one is atari game console lol, i naver had any of this 2, but i had seg 8 bit and 16, and super nintendo famicon with ancinect graphics
Absolute4Zero 3 years ago
The C64 really struggled to do racers...
ukmarkh 3 years ago
Das Spielen hat mit dem Ding viel mehr Spaß gemacht!
Lippstadt2008 3 years ago
Those graphics were awesome back in the 80's!
brandondonath 3 years ago
Ah one of my favourite OUTRUN Tunes!!!
PieFights 3 years ago
It's possable to play this game with a Sega Genesis/Megadrive controller. Up=Accelerate, Down=Brake, Left/Right=Stearing, B=change gears.
SegaMegadriveMic 3 years ago
Amazing what they could make out of a 8 bit engine with 1 Mega-Hertz and 8k bank switching. I loved this game when I was a kid.
conoba 3 years ago
I still get chills down my spine when i hear that music, so awesome!
C=64 = legendary
raheem78 3 years ago 6
its crazy how it has that effect huh> did u play imposible mission and way of the exploding fist? man i miss being a kid
lilblitz 3 years ago
ghostbusters?
advent45143 3 years ago
RIP SID :(
airix10 3 years ago
I feel sorry for the poor person who ever played guitar for this game his fingers must have blead for days but No Pian no Gain!!!
PieFights 3 years ago
This one was crap compared to Turbo Outrun. Still they were both hampered by the fact the Commy could only cope with one other car on the screen at the same time!