If you've never seen an SDX cabinet in person, they're ridiculous. Ridiculous in the wonderfully old-school SEGA way, where some engineer clearly said, "What if the seat moved?" and everyone else in the meeting simply nodded before making the cabinet twice the size it probably needed to be.

They're enormous. Like, properly enormous. We spent more time than I'd care to admit figuring out how to get them into the building (video coming soon), and there were moments where it genuinely felt like the machines had won. Still, it was worth every second.

OutRun 2 is one of those games that almost shouldn't exist. The original OutRun was already an all-time classic. Ask anyone to name the greatest arcade driving games ever made and it's almost always somewhere near the top of the list (it topped our "Best of All Time" vote during Covid lest we forget!). Instead of trying to replace it, SEGA looked at what made it brilliant, kept the soul intact and built what felt like the perfect sequel. Better drifting, more routes, more cars, gorgeous visuals and somehow the same carefree feeling that made the original so special. You aren't really racing. You're just driving a Ferrari through places you'd rather be while one of the greatest arcade soundtracks ever written blasts through the speakers.

The bit that makes us smile, though, isn't actually the eight-player setup. It's what we've put next to it. The original OutRun Deluxe. The one that started all of this back in 1986. You can walk from one to the other in about five seconds. Forty years of arcade history, separated by a few footsteps.

We honestly don't know if these two machines have ever sat side by side before. Maybe somewhere in Japan twenty years ago. Maybe nowhere. Either way, it feels appropriate. You get to play the game that changed arcade racing forever, then climb into what I'd argue is its greatest evolution.

There's an argument to be had over whether OutRun or OutRun 2 SP is the better game. We're not going anywhere near it though! What we will happily say, is that they're both comfortably in the conversation for the greatest arcade racing games ever made, and having both available, next to each other, feels like one of those things we'd have dreamed about as kids and never expected to actually see.

Some arcade machines are important, some are legendary, very, very few get to claim both. And you can play them both at Bury right now.