OutRun

Branching routes and a selectable soundtrack recast racing as a leisure drive, not a contest.

Released 1986 Developer Sega AM2 Publisher Sega Platform Arcade Genre Racing Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas OutRun inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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