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December 11, 2023

Sega Is Reviving Five Game Properties…Maybe Six

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The problem with the game industry releasing 10,000 trailers at the same time, as they did last weekend during the Game Awards, is that it all becomes noise, and a lot of developers won’t get quite as MUCH attention as they hoped. But when I think back on that noisy night a few days ago, a few things managed to stick out, and one was Sega announcing FIVE games based on their classic properties, out of nowhere. Don’t you hate it when game studios that have been around for a while just sit on a beloved series instead of doing anything with it? That’s not Sega, at least not today. They’re bringing back Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Crazy Taxi — all five have new installments currently in development. And there may be a sixth! Jet Set Radio is a skating, rail-grinding game where you’re a rebellious street tagger in a cel-shaded world. Shinobi and Golden Axe are two of Sega’s oldest, having started as

June 4, 2012

Jet Set Radio Pre-E3 Teaser Video

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SEGA has released a new teaser video for the upcoming Jet Set Radio remake release. Jet Set Radio is on my list of favorite games of all time. Needless to say, I’m pretty psyched. Jet Set Radio‘s initial incarnation was called Jet Grind Radio in the United States release and was exclusive to the SEGA Dreamcast in 2000. Much to my chagrin, a terrible and difficult-to-play 2D version of the game was later released to the Gameboy Advance. In the Dreamcast version of the game you play as one member in a group of kids who express themselves through graffiti and skating. The player skates through levels, racking up points through accomplishing complex tricks and tagging walls. Jet Set Radio’s plot also involves dethroning rival gangs. The game’s greatest strengths are in its game play and it’s exceptionally good soundtrack which includes several sub-genres of electronica, j-pop, hip hop, rock and metal. The full track list is as follows: By Hideki Naganuma (SEGA) “Grace and Glory” “Humming the Bassline” “Let

May 30, 2012