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The artist behind this box art
The box art of this game was done by David Bracher.
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Title screen

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All the colors
I was surprised how dark my Turbo OutRun screenshots turned out to be. Settings on my micro64 were tweaked to mimic how I remember what C64 games looked like on our ol' portable color TV back in the day but never really checked the overall parameters and thus went to far. So I've sat down and tweaked it some more to get a little bit more pop out of it without overdoing it.
All in all, it's a now brighter and a bit more saturated.
I've also remembered an old website where the "original" palette was calculated and a quick google brought up Calculating the color palette of the VIC II , where Pepto did all the math and low and behold, my tweaked micro64 with all the PAL emulation bells and whistles comes pretty close to those colors now too.

Cruisin' in the Arcade
After yesterday's short session with Turbo OutRun, I've sat down and played the Arcade version today. It's astonishing how many of the effects as well as the overall mood of the game could be ported over to the humble C64.
The colorful changes of scenery has also been ported flawlessly with the blazing red sun of Indianapolis IMHO even better looking in 8big
Here's some screenshots
Crusin'
Ever since I've played the original OutRun on C64, I've been a fan. Sure, it's not the best version out there to play OutRun, but it was all we had. Then, Turbo OutRun came along with fancier music, fancier graphics and fancier tech overall and it was a blast. While the controls aren't as tight as in the origial, it had so much more to offer that we didn't really care.
With a copy of the game now proudly sitting on my shelf, I booted up the game once again and I have to say, it's still a lot of fun.
Here's some screenshots:
Yay, sampled music \o/
First stage with gfx putting the original to shame
Minimal changes, maximal effect. Love it!
Time for tuning our car
Loosing the girl while the band jams.
Well, didn't get that far, did I?
Latest Pickups: Turbo Out Run, Chase HQ and S.T.U.N. Runner
Another box of Commodore 64 games arrived today:
- Turbo Out Run
- Chase HQ
- S.T.U.N. Runner
I got them via eBay from Bratislava. Chatted with the seller who turned out to be a fellow collector selling some — too few, according to his wife :-) — of his games. He also surprised me by adding a bonus tape, Mastertronic's Quatro Sports, which collects four games that we not only had as single cassetts back in the day but also played over and over again (Grand Prix Simulator being one of them).








































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