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So to really kind of understand kind of what made outrun so monumental as a

Sega release, it's worth looking back at Sega's history and just how important racing was to

the company as a genre. Like you go back into the 1970s and you know from the very beginning,

as soon as they entered the video games industry, Sega was really trying to push the racing genre

forward. And you go back to like 1970, 677, they released a game called The Fonz. And that's as in,

you know, Fonz a relic. It says in Happy Days. It's a licensed game that basically uses the

likeness of Henry Winkler and the Fonz on the cabinet to kind of push a motorcycle racer because,

you know, the Fonz was, before he jumped the shark on jet skis, he was a motorcycle guy. That's

where I always, you know, it's a greaser wore his leather jacket all the time. And, you know,

it's one of the very first video games, if not the first, to be licensed from a media property.

And, you know, the Fonz has nothing to do with the actual game. It's a motorcycle racer,

but it's a, it's a TTL based system, transistor, transistor logic. So it's like a custom board.

And it uses this kind of weird graphical effect to create bins and twists in the road. I don't

know if you've watched video footage. I've seen the, I've seen like the marquee. It's like the, the,

the road, you know, it's, it's kind of a behind the bike viewpoint of the race, which is, you know,

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