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Since last year, retro game musician legend Yuzo Koshiro and his game development studio Ancient have been hard at work on an all new scrolling shooter for Genesis/Mega-Drive consoles, their first game for the classic 16-bit platform since Beyond Oasis (The Story of Thor outside of North America) from 1994. As of June 16th, 2023, Koshiro-san has finally revealed the decided upon title for this new game: Earthion. Along with that, ...
Quick! Like a ninja! If you blinked, you may not have noticed that four more classic games were just added to the SEGA Genesis™ – Nintendo Switch Online library and are playable right now: The Revenge of Shinobi, Ghouls ’n Ghosts, Landstalker and Crusader of Centy. You can play them all on your Nintendo Switch™ system with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership.Crusader of Centy tasks you with launching your razor-sharp weapon like a blazing boomerang ...
It is the year 1928 when the cult of Hastur, an evil god of the winds, seeks to resurrect their master. To do this, a massive ceremony must be performed atop a large structure in New York City - the future Empire State Building! All seems lost until a sorceress from Peru arrives to put an end to their plot. Annet has harnessed a portion of Hastur’s magic and can control various elements such as the magic of the Wind - el viento!Pre-order this collection from June 27th through July 30th, 2023.El Viento (Meaning “The Wind” in Spanish) released in North America and Japan, with the only European release being in France, making Retro-Bit’s release the first official release of the game throughout greater Europe and the UK. It is part of a loose trilogy of games focused on ...
In the far-flung future, mankind has spread out across various systems. A supercomputer known as GCS-WT was developed to unite all societies and provide support where needed. Instead, it has used its access to act like a dictator and has begun attacking many worlds. Developed by the recently murdered Edwin Deace, the Sol-Deace is a powerful space fighter capable of putting a stop to this attack. It's down to the last two pilots to end their reign and save the galaxy.Pre-order this collection from June 27th through July 30th, 2023.Sol-Deace is a scrolling space shooter released by the same Wolf Team studio who also made El Viento. This is not to be confused with Sol-Feace, the Sega CD version of the same game that launched with ...
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On June 28th 2023, Sega hosted a live streaming event on their official YouTube channel to update players on the future kf their new gacha game 404 Game Re:Set. During the show, the publisher announced that they will launch a new Ridge Racer x Daytona USA scenario event, starring the Sega franchises of the same name. The event is slated to begin on July 29th 2023.Daytona USA will feature as the boss character of the upcoming event, meaning that there will be several Daytona USA remixes similar to the previous Fatal Fury and Virtua Fighter events.Additionally, it was revealed that ...
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This is huge.There is so much info here that it's almost overwhelming. Manufacturing costs, retail margins, sales, product strategies, emails, etc.The total cost to manufacture the Saturn in early 1996 was $232 - much lower than expected.The retail margin was only 6%! Meaning retailers made only $15 per Saturn sold.Emails reveal concern that retailers were going to abandon the market en masse due to low margins.
Michael Katz : "We had to launch Genesis with some titles that would be appealing to Nintendo Entertainment System owners – 90% of the category was still Nintendo. We needed to get them to convert over to the more powerful Genesis.You can’t do it by just telling them you’ve got a better system. You’ve got to have games that they want to play on the other system. So sports were big in the US, football was the biggest sport, and Joe Montana was the most famous footballer. So we competed with Nintendo [for Joe Montana] and we won. We got Joe Montana for three or four years. He was the voice of and the picture of Sega Genesis.He made a lot on his royalties, and that really launched Sega Genesis. Not Sonic the Hedgehog. It got launched by people wanting to buy Genesis after they saw what could be done with the software quality as witnessed by a game like Joe Montana Football. Sonic the Hedgehog came [several] months later.We wanted to get the best guys in every category, so we got the boxer Buster Douglas ..."
The collection will consist :Time Gal HD remasterSpace Battleship Yamato HD remasterRevenge of the Ninja HD remaster
A romhacker called BillyTime!Games, however, has been busy trying to correct this over the last few years, resurrecting the service as best as he can in the modern day. This has meant building a new offline recreation of the service on a month-to-month basis as a ROM that includes some of its most notable games and recognizable features. He started the project back in 2021 and recently revealed on Twitter that it will now be coming to an end, with the ROM for July '94 being the last of the uploads.According to BillyTime!Games, this upload will mean that a full year's worth of Sega Channel has now been brought back from the dead with ...
