See Games Differently
See Games Differently
outrun
If you grew up in the 1980s, no doubt you played (and loved) arcade game OutRun. But what if you grew up in the 1960s, before there were video games as we now know them?
Yu Suzuki, the man behind classic Sega video games Space Harrier, Out Run, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, will be at this year’s Game Developers Conference for a prestigious accolade, this year’s Pioneer Award.
So, this guy gutted an Outrun arcade cabinet, jammed it on a go-kart and, in the name of university research, assembled a contraption that drives 24km/h in the real world while displaying it as an 8-bit virtual one.
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