Obscure Sega-AM2 games...

[Trippled]

The only known image of it I can find it. It's "Soreike Kokology" based on a TV show in Japan that is based on Psychology, the game would revolve around quizzes I guess?


Found about it from this place http://web.archive.org/web/20040630004045/http://www.sega-am2.co.jp/jp/games/index.html, the old Sega-AM2 website.

[George]

Weird never heard of it. So strange.

[Trippled]

Burning Rival and Arabian Fight would be next most obscure games I'd guess.

The obscure trio ran on the System32 board...

Another obscure AM2 game is a Golf game, according to the current second AM2 manager (Noriyuki Shimoda: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/noriyuki-shimoda/36/463/b76). BTW this guy only joined in 2004 and got to produce several important Sega titles already...

Resume:
produced original title:
BORDER BREAK(ARCADE)
AFTER BURNER CLIMAX(ARCADE/XBLA/PSN)
GHOST SQUAD(ARCADE)
SEGA GOLF CLUB(ARCADE)

produced conversion title:
VIRTUA FIGHTER5(Xbox 360/PS3)
VIRTUAL-ON FORCE(Xbox 360)
VIRTUAL-ON ORATORIO TANGRAM(Xbox 360)
DAYTONA USA(Xbox 360/PS3)
VIRTUA FIGHTER2(Xbox 360/PS3)
FIGHTING VIPERS(Xbox 360/PS3)
SONIC THE FIGHTERS(Xbox 360/PS3)

SEGA Golf Club is actually this game and got a PS3 port:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvnCnurG4fI

Then there is also this baseball card game which get's mentioned on R&D2 hiring sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c919Q0ypHZk

However it seems that Crazy Taxi creator has favoruited this game on his Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/kenji.kanno.5
Meaning that's it is not necesarily a AM2, but rather made under Mie Kumagais teams...(AM3)

BTW Sega people are seemingly friends with other Sega people at Facebook...

[George]

I played Burning Rival and Arabian Fight, which is funny that AM2 basically ignores the games existence when I read VF interviews. Tho Yu Suzuki didn't have much to do with them.

[Trippled]

Yu Suzuki was kind of a man that kept to himself...unless it was his own project he was never the one to be the big guy and give advice to everyone. A Miyamoto opposite I think.


Desert Tank is another obscure one (not much to do with Suzuki again)

[George]

Nah but it having his team help with that game got them the texture mapping chip for Virtua Fighter 2, can't hate on that. It was a good relationship for AM2 at the time.

[Trippled]

Nah but it having his team help with that game got them the texture mapping chip for Virtua Fighter 2, can't hate on that. It was a good relationship for AM2 at the time.

I'm saying when he was producer on a game (like Daytona USA or Virtua Cop), he does not have much to say about it.

[Centrale]

Mark from Classic Game Room just reviewed a PS2 Macross game that was apparently published by Bandai, but lists Sega AM2 on the title screen. It looks awesome! SegaRetro doesn't seem to have any info on it, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0G2FxQ0iEs

[Trippled]

I think that game was made when CRI was part of AM2 for a year or so, and made games like Aero Dancing. That short-lived merger is hella confusing.