In 1986 Sega released one of the greatest arcade racers of our time called Out Run. A game designed by Yu Suzuki, that was not only a commercial success, but became one of the best selling games of its time. A game that featured incredible racing graphics and fantastic music. Sadly the Amiga version wasn’t all that great, and even though we had the incredible release of OutRun Amiga Edition which still needed the original roms and a pretty powerful Amiga. It wasn’t until now however, that a demo has been made available for ‘Outrun AGA’ by retrodnagames (Agermose on EAB). A new version that requires no accelerators, no extra roms and requires just an Amiga 1200 and above.
Here’s what Agermose had to say about the game when the first announcement was made in 2021 and the more recent post in 2024. “Back in January of 2021, DJ Metune shared a picture of an icy road, which sparked off a conversation in the 1942 dev team about driving games on the Amiga, and how bad the Amiga Outrun conversion was. Since then we have been looking into converting Outrun, and the announcement of the project. The conversion will be for AGA machines only. An OCS version may happen later if the AGA versions is successful, and we believe in delivering something playable on OCS. The team is the same as 1942, myself coding, Nightshft on assets/misc, and DJ METUNE on music”.
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