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TURBO OUT RUN
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TURBO OUT RUN is a roadrace simulation from Sega Enterprises and Electronic
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Arts. Ported from the arcade hit, TURBO offers very good graphics and race
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animation, weather conditions, customizing options at the pit stops, manual and
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automatic transmissions, joystick control, and copy protection. The Commodore
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64/128 version is the basis of this review.
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TURBO simulates a cross-country roadrace that starts out in New York City on
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the East Coast, moves through the Midwest, South, Southwest, and ends in Los
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Angeles on the West Coast. The goal is to drive your Ferrari F-40 from Point A
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to Point B as quickly as possible.
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The C64 screen display consists of an action screen on which are the road, the
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Ferrari, and the scenery. The road and the scenery scroll as you steer the car.
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At the top of the screen are score and timer, which ticks off the seconds
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available to reach each checkpoint. As long as the Ferrari is moving, the score
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counter keeps clicking.
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The scenery consists of cities, deserts, billboards, light poles, and
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mountains. There are other vehicles, including police cars and VWs. Weather
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conditions include rain and snow. A platinum blonde babe sits beides you. She's
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fickle -- all she wants is to be in the fastest car -- as well as irrelevant to
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the race, which proves that I'm just an American boy and I love my machine.
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TURBO is controlled with a joystick. Regardless of the transmission you select,
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left and right on the stick move the car likewise, forward accelerates, and
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backward decelerates. With a manual trans, the button shifts gears and the
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Spacebar invokes the turbo booster. With an automatic trans, the button invokes
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the turbo booster, which makes little flames blow out of the exhaust pipe and
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causes the engine to heat up rapidly (as indicated on the heat bar). Run/Stop
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pauses.
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There are pit stops in Chicago, Miami, and Oklahoma City, where you can choose
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High Grip Tires, a High Speed Engine, or Special Turbo, which removes heat
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faster. You can select each option only once.
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If you don't reach a checkpoint before time runs out, the game ends. The
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Continue option lets you keep racing, but only three times, after which you'll
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have to start at the beginning.
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The C64 TURBO OUT RUN package comes with one copy-protected disk and an
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instruction sheet for all versions.
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TURBO OUT RUN is not at all difficult, and beyond the car and the road, there's
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really not much to it. It looks fine, plays well, and as C64 arcade games go,
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TURBO delivers the goods as simplistically as possible.
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TURBO OUTRUN is published by Sega Enterprises and distributed by Electronic
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Arts.
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*****DOWNLOADED FROM P-80 SYSTEMS (304) 744-2253
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