Just before Christmas, it was announced that Sega was teaming up with retro hardware maker My Arcade to produce a series of mini-arcade systems, and we now have more details on one of those systems.
My Arcade has been demonstrating some of its upcoming products at CES 2025, including the Atari GameStation Go and a similar device that comes loaded with Capcom and Bandai Namco games – but it also had an OutRun-themed mini-arcade on display.
The "Racing Player Portable Retro Arcade" is a unit which has previously been used by My Arcade for Pole Position and features a 3.5-inch screen and steering wheel. It retails for $49.99.
The upcoming OutRun version will feature authentic marquee and cabinet art and will include both the 1986 original and one of its many sequels – the System 32-powered 1993 title OutRunners.
OutRunners is considered by some fans to be one of the best entries in the entire franchise and pushes Sega's obsession with smoothly scaling 2D sprites to the absolute limit. Like many other System 32 games, it was simply too ambitious to be faithfully ported to Sega's home console at the time, the Mega Drive / Genesis, and the resultant port was so underwhelming that Sega didn't even bother to release it in North America, instead allowing Data East to handle distribution instead. It skipped Europe entirely.
The arcade original has never been ported to any home system, making this My Arcade release all the more interesting.
The other cabinets included in the range are:
- Sonic
- Revenge of Shinobi
- Golden Axe
- Streets of Rage