Review by: Colin WilliamsonAfter a long day of scheduled appointments with various developers at last year’s E3, I finally got a few free hours where I could zip around and check out the latest console offerings. After getting lost trying to find the bathroom (and discovering the Working Designs booth in […]
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Arcade Racer
Review by: Joe Boerner Summary: I bought the Arcade Racer for $80 plus tax in the month of June ’96. One of the reasons I bought it, because High Velocity was extremely hard on Heats 5 and 6. Then, I had no problem beating the computer (After practicing a lot on […]
News Sep
October 2, 1996 NiGHTS makes Top 10 in sales As reported by Next Gen Online, NiGHTS is the 10th best seller in the US for the month of August, according to SofTrends. The only Saturn game in the top 20. September 30, 1996 New Saturn Releases Three Dirty Dwarves from Sega […]
Worldwide Soccer ’98
Review by: Sean CostelloCaught up in World Cup frenzy, and in need of another good sports game, I decided to purchase a copy Sega Sports; Worldwide Soccer ’98. Having already owned Worldwide Soccer ’97 at a time (I traded it in for Virtual On, but nevermind) I pretty much knew what […]
News March
March 31, 1996 Daytona 2 CorrectionEarlier, in the March 28 News, it was stated that ‘Daytona 2 is also in the works’, and I did not specify that it is only in the works for the arcade. I apologize for the mistake. Daytona 2 has only been announced for the […]
Shining Wisdom
Genre Action/RPG Publisher Working Designs Developer Sonic Software Planning Players 1 Difficulty Easy Released 6-27-96 NetLink n/a Miscellaneous n/a Rating 8.0/10 Screenshots Once, long ago, a fearsome giant known as the ‘Dark Titan’ rose from the abyss and nearly destroyed all Palacia before being bound by magic. Now, […]
Game Over for the Sega Channel
The Sega Channel, cable’s first on-demand videogame service, is pulling the plug June 30 and closing its main headquarters in New York by year’s end. The channel, which launched in 1994, has been a joint venture of Time Warner Entertainment, Tele-Communications Inc. and Sega of America. It enabled subscribers paying […]
Silhouette Mirage
The developers that brought us Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy and Guardian Heroes are now hard at work developing their second title for the Sega Saturn, Silhouette Mirage. Silhouette Mirage is a standard action-platform game that revolves around a young wizardress type girl named Shaina, who embodies teh attributes of “mirage” […]
Samurai Shodown RPG
News May
May 29, 1997 MOODY’S KEEPS SEGA’S LONG-TERM DEBT RATING THE SAME Moody’s Investors Service said on Thursday that it would keep Sega Enterprises Ltd’s long-term debt rating at Baa2. Moody’s action was based on the announcement earlier this week that the planned merger of Sega and Bandai Co Ltd was […]