 Development on the game (which is an original product based on  OutRun, not an arcade conversion) originally began not long after  the Amiga conversion of the first OutRun was released in 1988. By  early 1989 it was previewed in magazines of the day, but the release  of the Turbo OutRun arcade game, and US Golds subsequent  conversion, meant that it was pushed aside and not completed for  another 2 1/2 years.