Prancing horses
September 25, 2014 | 21:14 | Written by: snake911
I wanna say the majority of arcades I visited in the ‘80s and the early ‘90s always had an OutRun arcade cabinet. With this cabinet, three things always come to mind. 1) The cool ability to select the music you wanted to listen to as you raced. 2) The satisfying way the shifter “clunked” from the low gear to the high gear. 3) The way how the steering wheel you were gripping violently shook when you crashed your incredibly expensive car. Twenty some-odd years later, there would be a sequel to this game called OutRun 2. Now while I never played it at the arcades, I got to play it on the Xbox; where this port was successful in accomplishing 2 out of those 3 items above by replicating them, and improving on the 3rd by swapping it with another type of game mechanic. Here’s a writeup about this fantastic sequel.
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