OutRunners

Arcade version

The arcade original features up to 8 simultaneous racers by linking four 2-seater cabinets.

Mega Drive version

The Mega Drive version shares more or less nothing with its coin-op counterpart except the name and a restrictive two-player target market that means you get a horizontal split-screen even if you are playing in one-player mode. As well as the standard against-the-clock multiple routes game, there is a baffling "Original" mode in which you race the CPU on a single track with no branching. If you beat an opponent you win their car, if you fail you lose the car you were racing in and you keep going until you have got no cars left to race with. The mode ends after six levels giving no kind of score or ranking. The MD version has also a very crippled visuals and gameplay: almost non-existent draw distance feature, terrible collision detection and tracks which resemble the coin-op's in only a thematic sense.