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Originally Posted by rothers
The graphics in that still make me laugh, like literally did they only have a text based description of the arcade game to go by?
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I don't know about the Amiga version, but...
The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s
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OutRun was the hottest arcade game around and US Gold had paid £250,000 up-front to secure the home computer rights from Sega (a top-tier license typically sold for a quarter of this amount)...
Everything was going well and Martin was weeks ahead of schedule when the finish line suddenly moved. "US Gold requested a handful of tracks initially. Then when I finished in October Geoff asked me to port all of the routes, which was a mammoth task. We had no original design documents, just the arcade game, so we had to master every route and video it using a Super 8 recorder. I played that game a lot."
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