Toomanywires

My Xbox 360 still thinks it's 2012. Trials Evolution showing as my last-played, The Witcher 2 still in the tray, and my full-body avatar jiggling on the dashboard. My 360 is a time capsule of early 2010's gaming, untroubled by system updates thanks to a decade spent in storage. I dusted off my frozen-in-time 360 earlier this month when I was back in the UK. The reason? OutRun 2, of course. I'd long been aware of its existence, but despite my enjoyment of the original and general fondness for arcade racers, I'd never played OutRun 2. This was most likely the result of unfortunate timing and the platforms on which it appeared. It came out on the original Xbox, a console I've never owned; a semi-sequel, OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, arrived a few years later when I was at the very tail end of an extended period of relative disinterest in video games. I simply wasn't paying attention, so OutRun 2, in all its guises, entirely passed me by. Presumably due to an expired