outrun / turbo outrun?

[Mista_Ed]

easy ppl

im after a copy of outrun and have noticed that theres also another release - turbo outrun

not played either.....but im very, very familiar with the O.G. arcade from playing it for many, many hours! (lots of 10 pences spent on that one!! hehe)

whats the score with both titles, are they faithful to the arcade?

and - turbo outrun does it compare to the original in terms of gameplay and...i guess..."feel"?

i often find updated versions dont have same 'character' as the originals..and loose some elements that made them good in the first place

whats ppls opinions?








. . . and yeh . . . i could go and load up the rom from the pack i have with every damn release on it......but if im gonna hunt it down, i wanna experience it for the first time when i put it in my console

(*shittt....thats hella_obsessive somehow :S*)

[17daysolderthannes]

Outrun=nearly perfect

Turbo Outrun=nearly horrendous

Outrunners=OK, not great.

MAME it.

[The Coop]

OutRun is a pretty faithful port with rather good scaling for the Genesis. Turbo OutRun was... not so good. OutRunners is decent, but it's still no match for the original. Don't forget about OutRun 2019, which is so-so.

OutRun all the way.

[Mista_Ed]

cool - thought as much

[Elliotw2]

Turbo Outrun, in the arcades at least, wasn't bad, even if it took out the branching paths and was much harder than normal Outrun. I have no idea on the Genesis port though

[CMA Death Adder]

Outrun is the way to go. Great presentation, gameplay, music, etc.
Turbo Outrun is miserable to play on the Genesis, with a lame conversion of the soundtrack to boot.

To hear a superb rendition of the Turbo Outrun music, though, you should check out Jeroen Tel's composition for the Commodore 64.

[Deo]

Yea the Genesis version of Outrun is pretty good but there is a fair amount of slowdown when more than a 2-3 cars are on screen.

[Silanda]

Turbo Outrun is a typical Tiertex arcade port: nearly incompetent

[Rusty Venture]

Turbo Outrun on the MD makes me cry.

The arcade version not being included in "Outrun: Coast 2 Coast" makes me cry even more.

[JDB]

Turbo Outrun on the MD makes me cry.

The arcade version not being included in "Outrun: Coast 2 Coast" makes me cry even more.

QTF. This DOES make Rusty cry

[Sparksterz]

idk I was a fan of Outrun 2019 the soundtrack rocked!

[Alvatron]

The sad part is Turbo Outrun on the Genesis could have been so much better. Instead it's just a sad, lazy, horrible port of a good arcade game.

[Nunzio]

I didn't like the 'auto' turbo in Outrun 2019. Otherwise I thought the graphics and music were great, just that one gameplay thing was too much for me to handle.

[Mr Smith]

I dreamt last night that I was browsing through Mega Drive games in some sort of shop and I discovered the Mega Drive game Outrun 2014.

[havok666]

I think Turbo Outrun was developed by Tiertex that's why it sucked so bad.