OutRun Online Arcade. Victims of digital distribution

OutRun from 1986 is one of the most famous arcade games in the world, whose influence on the car genre is echoed in almost every modern arcade representative of the genre – from Need for Speed, through Burnout, to Forza Horizon. Although the series never managed to gain the same popularity on home gaming systems as it did on arcades, it saw several decent console conversions and sequels. OutRun Online Arcade was among the most interesting of these.

Released in April 2009 on Xbox 360 and PS3, the game from Sumo Digital (Team Sonic Racing, Crackdown 3, new entries in Forza series) was based on OutRun 2 from 2003 and OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast, but offered a handful of new features and improvements. With ten licensed Ferrari cars, we got 15 different routes, and the graphics were quite good for that era. There was also a lot emphasis on multiplayer.

The game garnered good reviews from the press and was met with acclaim from fans, but did not secure long-term success. In October 2010, less than a year after its release, OutRun Online Arcade was removed from the PlayStation Store, and a year later, it also disappeared from the Xbox Marketplace. The reason for the game being withdrawn from sale so quickly was the expiration of Sega's deal with Ferrari.

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Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.