Ferrari-styled OutRun arcade machine set for crazy scooter transformation? (video)
By Tim Stevens 
posted November 12th 2009 7:46AM
posted November 12th 2009 7:46AM
If you're a child of the '80s and a gamer to boot you surely remember OutRun, the game that rocked a generation with only some parallax effects and pixelated blonde hair -- though the giant arcade cabinet with gold wheels certainly didn't hurt. Now "contemporary artist" Garnet Hertz (creator of the twitching, crunchy frog server) is proposing to give that very cabinet a new lease on life, and a motorized one at that. Hertz wants to take an arcade machine and merge it with an EVT America Electric Trike, making those stylized five-spoke rims actually move. But that's only half of it. He plans to power the display with an iPhone 3GS and use it to render a sort of halcyon 16-bit view of the world ahead, with every road a 64-color dream lined with palm trees. A recent video showing off some of the tech is embedded below, and while we think this is about as likely to turn a wheel as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinet is to travel in time, we'll certainly be first in line with four quarters if it ever does.
shiny screen ftw
Bad ass music track is the key, though
The colour of the car.
They see me rollin' they hatin'......
Check out the chrome rims!
So the tech is that the guy can walk away from a camera?
All that video needed was the end music from "The Incredible Hulk" TV series.
The only thing I got from that video is that walking controls the direction of the road on the screen. So... while you walk you can watch the screen...? Does that mean if you hit your head embarrassingly on a pole the car crashes in the game?
I was waiting for the classic car/truck takes out the pedestrian gag at the end.
You see? This is why we shouldn't give kids shiny screens.
BTW, when do we get a Mickey Thompson Off Road! version of this?
It looks crazy......
yeah, especially the ratio of OutRun speed to actual speed has all sorts of crazy in it.
Come to think of it, it would be great for those "wanna get there fast" drivers.
too bad they're not using Rad Racer. the music was much better
Lame...
Make one for GT5 and its sold!
Just wait until someone tries using a cellphone with this thing.
Put a Briggs and Straton on it, get tore up at your local, drive it into parked car and wait for the Po Po to arrive. KACHING!!!!
That was terrible.
Magical Sound Shower >> Passing Breeze