A certified arcade classic. Even a decade and a half later this game is so satisfying to play, drifting through every corner, passing every rival and completing every request.

There just aren't many arcade (literally in an arcade not the genre arcade) style racers that can hold up against this game. It's a shame that because it's licenced with a tie in we may never see a revival of this classic.

HD collection for the 20th anniversary?

Outrun 2 begins like the impact of a meteor, face-first at ground-zero before the ashes scatter and you are left staring at a monstrous crater for all eternity.

A visit from an ice-cream van in the form of an arcade cabinet with the blissful precision of a steering wheel has become a sweaty marathon jog at home with an analog stick. A child and their dreamlike mania sanded down to an algorithm, trapped in a straitjacket inside a red room with a black and yellow logo on the ceiling.
It is a daylong rerun of a reasonably solid sitcom playing on the TV at your nice grandma’s house, because what else is there to do?

Outrun 2 is a drunk friend at a party who's lost in the sauce and keeps rambling to everyone about their awesome big ideas they'd do if only someone gave them the money.
Maybe if Outrun 2 (3) got that money, it'd manage to get the child out of that room.