Garnet Hertz, 38, saw one of the old arcade versions in 2006. Sega eventually ported OutRun to home gaming systems, but it first appeared as an arcade game. Today, its roofless, eight-bit Ferrari Testarossa looks stone-ax primitive in 1986, it was high-tech rad. Think of OutRun as Gran Turismo’s great-grandfather, fulfilling the preteen dream of ripping through various landscapes in an exotic car. So, why not make a video game into a car? Specifically, give a vintage-1986 Sega OutRun arcade game some wheels and a motor and let the gamer drive the concoction through physical space. Computers mediate braking and steering and almost always decide when the transmission should shift gears. Toe in to a new car’s throttle, and you’re asking a computer to send air and fuel into the engine.
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