Descpription:
Out Run is a 1986 arcade game designed by Yu Suzuki and Sega-AM2.
The game was a major hit with arcade-goers and is notable for its innovative
hardware (including a moving cabinet), pioneering graphics and music, a choice in
both soundtrack and route, and its strong theme of luxury and relaxation.
In retrospective interviews, Yu Suzuki has classified Out Run not as a racing game,
but as a "driving" game. The player controls a man driving a car with his girlfriend
in the passenger seat. The car is popularly perceived to be a Ferrari Testarossa
convertible; however, this game did not have an official Ferrari license.
Out Run was one of the first arcade games to give the player a genuine feeling of
speed, achieving its 3D effects using a sprite-scaling technique called
'Super-Scaler' technology (first used one year earlier in Hang-On and Space Harrier).
This allowed a large number of sprites to be moved around screen at
a very fast framerate, giving players the sensation of fast 3D movement.
