Posts tagged “Outrun 2006”

From 2014-2015, RPS's Senior Scottish Correspondent Cara Ellison wrote S.EXE, 29 columns about games about sex, games about love, games about the space in between those two things, games about sexuality, and games about schlongs. Unfortunately the series is on indefinite hiatus as Cara takes a break from writing about games after her spectacular but surely exhausting Embed With... project, but whether you missed it…

Tagged with Cara Ellison, love, Outrun 2006, rps-ultromegafeature, S.EXE, Sex, Dragon Age II, full throttle, Gone Home.

The sound of the sea on the menu of the classic arcade racer OutRun 2006 is drifting through Tim Rogers’ Oakland apartment. For whatever reason I find myself in the ex-Grasshopper Manufacture designer’s house, and this guy is making a game, ‘Videoball’, that demands that the voice actor on his new game sound like she comes from OutRun 2006. So I am playing OutRun 2006.…

Tagged with Kieron baiting, Outrun 2006, S.EXE, Videoball.

This is the latest in the series of articles about the art technology of games, in collaboration with the particularly handsome Dead End Thrills. How better to celebrate 25 years of Mega Drive than on a site dedicated to PC games, via a game synonymous with Xbox-powered coin-ops? Not so fast, RPS! This copy of the seldom-bought PC version of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast…

Tagged with dead end thrills, feature, Outrun 2006, Sega, Sumo Digital.

I returned home on a Saturday night. The good lady was out, cavorting with Germany. I scanned my videogames and searched for something to sooth the anger that twisted in my fevered brain. An obvious solution prevented itself. Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast. I've been playing it ever since. And for some reason, my steam profile hasn't been logging its hours, so you'll just have…

Tagged with feature, Outrun 2006, Retro... ish, retrospective.