Music
The game's accompanying music was composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, who had previously composed soundtracks for other Sega games and was part of Sega's official band at the time, the S.S.T. Band. OutRun was the first video arcade game that allowed the user to choose the background music, a soundtrack of both laid-back beach music (very similar in style and tone to the popular '70s/'80s Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea), and some Miami Sound Machine-styled Latin/Caribbean beats. Three selectable tracks were featured in all and were broadcast through imaginary FM Radio stations received by the radio receiver in the Testarossa.
The Sega Master System's Out Run 3D contains the additional tracks Color Ocean, Shining Wind and Midnight Highway while the 1991 Mega Drive/Sega Genesis port features an extra track entitled Step On Beat, written by Masayoshi Ishi.
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