I was doing some reading on Wikipedia on the engine that they use to make Sonic Mania and I found out that Whitehead is looking to remake some classic SEGA games such as Ristar, Knuckles Chaotix and Dynamite Heddy. Hopefully SEGA will let him proceed with this project due to the fact of how great Sonic Mania is.
This also makes me wonder that if they let him re-create these games, if they would allow him to make news games with SEGA's existing ip's such as Shinobi, Vectorman, Ecco, etc. This way SEGA just isn't reselling the same game but giving their old ips new purpose.
Any thoughts?