Race across varied terrain in this conversion of one of the most famous arcade racing games. Your Ferrari is at the ready, complete with female passenger, over a series of short tracks.

Gameplay is viewed form just above and behind the car, so you can see it. The roads are full of sharp bends and hazards, contact with which can cause the car to roll and lose you time. On each section of track there is a fork in the road, allowing you to choose which direction you go in. You have to complete 5 track sections in total, out of the 15 in the game.

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Alternate Titles

"Sega Ages: OutRun" -- Saturn title
"Out Run" -- Common title
"アウトラン" -- Japanese spelling

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Part of the Following Group

Outrun series

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	OutRun
	Out Run - Sega Master System	Sega Master System	$0.35
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User Reviews

In my book, it's among the top 5 racing games.

J. David Taylor (30)

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The Press Says

The Games Machine (UK)	Feb, 1988	72 out of 100	72
Retrogaming.it	Jan 22, 2008	7 out of 10	70
VideoGame	Mar, 1991		60
Defunct Games	Jul 10, 2005	55 out of 100	55

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Trivia

There was a patent case over the DOS port by Unlimited Software, the porting division of Distinctive Software. Accolade, for whom Distinctive had written The Duel: Test Drive II sought a preliminary injunction against Distinctive Software. It did not deal with the general look of the game, but rather the underlying source code.

Distinctive used some of the underlying "computer code" from The Duel for the OutRun DOS port, which Accolade challenged as an infringement of their copyright. Distinctive argued that these were standard libraries and routines, re-used in different games only for the sake of not having to reprogram them. Also, they claimed Accolade never contemplated the transfer of copyright in the library codes and, even if it did, the codes were not subject to copyright protection in the first place.

Ultimately, Accolade lost the case because the licensing agreement only referred to the concept and design of the game, but not the underlying codes.

The full case can be read through a link in the related links section.

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This entry was contributed by Trixter