3yr Mike Arrani
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Game

Racing Hero IGDB
1989-06-01
genre: Racing platform: Arcade
Race a motorcycle against other bikes, cars, trucks and the obligatory tight time limit. Racing Hero is the spiritual successor both to Sega's wonderful "Hang-On" series, and to their most famous racing game, "Out Run".

Some of Racing Hero's stages mirrored the racing-through-traffic gameplay of the Ferrari-based racer, for example perhaps the biggest similarity to Out Run is that at the end of each stage, the player can choose which route he or she wishes to take next. This differs somewhat from "Out Run"'s highly impressive forked-road method. In Racing Hero, the player is presented with a seperate stage-select screen and simply highlights the flag of whichever country they wish to tackle next.

stopped playing Racing Hero 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
I don't remember the original OutRun much, so I can't say whether this is a clone of it, but it definitely reminds me a lot of OutRun 2, which I still remember very well. The structure of races is very similar. There's traffic, a time limit, checkpoints and ridiculously long drifting sections. It feels very rewarding to execute these insane drifts avoiding all the traffic, but the game is very difficult. I couldn't beat it.

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of OutRun, but I know a lot of people deify it. This is a game for them. Very nice graphics and music, a very polished game for the time. If you're an OutRun fan, this will probably be a 9/10 for you. As for me, I found it mostly frustrating.