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OutRunners

In RG issue 54 Sega’s Yu Suzuki revealed that the main inspiration for Out Run was the American movie The Cannonball Run. In issue 86 your correspondent suggested that, appropriately, the sequel Turbo OutRun was a lot like Cannonball Run II – it featured more of what made the original so great, yet it was less than the sum of its parts and didn’t work as well second time around.

A dubious analogy, but to continue it regardless, is the equivalent of (aka ), the third film in the series. Both were loose sequels that arrived several years after the previous entry, and both were from a different creative team ( was developed by

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