Afterburner II Sega Ages Screens Show Coin-op Joy
Sega Ages shows the good, to go with the bad and ugly.
Sega's most recent foray into its criminally underused storeroom has thrown up a hotchpotch of offerings, with fans being delighted and appalled in roughly equal measures. Why, for instance, release undeniably poor Megadrive or 32X versions of a game for which arcade code readily exists?
Enough of the ranting, because the first decent shots we've seen of Afterburner II - the latest offering in the series that thankfully will see a global rollout - seemingly show that the excellent 1989 arcade original is the model for the game. Good news indeed.
In an interesting twist, the game will feature two distinct modes: A Mode-7-style, sprite-based affair, as well as a full remake, complete with polygonal planes and environments. And everything!
Sega Ages Afterburner II hits Japan at the end of this month, with US and European versions expected in summer and autumn respectively.
Enough of the ranting, because the first decent shots we've seen of Afterburner II - the latest offering in the series that thankfully will see a global rollout - seemingly show that the excellent 1989 arcade original is the model for the game. Good news indeed.
In an interesting twist, the game will feature two distinct modes: A Mode-7-style, sprite-based affair, as well as a full remake, complete with polygonal planes and environments. And everything!
Sega Ages Afterburner II hits Japan at the end of this month, with US and European versions expected in summer and autumn respectively.
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Mayor_McCheese 9 Mar 2004 14:45
1/5
Sod After Burner - where the feck is Outrun? Eh? There was a Sega Ages version for the Saturn and it rocked. Come on you 3D Ages guys, sort your stall out!
almondVanHelsing 9 Mar 2004 19:23
2/5
Hee Hee, "Sega Ages" just reminds me of the Commodore CD-32 advert that was put up in UK outside Sega's HQ.
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config 10 Mar 2004 08:36
3/5
Mayor_McCheese wrote:
>Sod After Burner - where the feck is Outrun? Eh?
>There was a Sega Ages version for the Saturn and
>it rocked. Come on you 3D Ages guys, sort your
>stall out!
Who cares about OutRun - it sucks - or rather, I sucked at it, therefore it sucks.
IIRC, Acclaim, erm, claimed that Burnout was going to be a point-to-point racer in the spirit of OutRun. That would have rules, as Burnout was a rocking racer at the time, bettered only by Burnout 2.
I wake sweating and trembling in the depths of the night, with fading memories of disturbing dreams about the things EA with do to Burnout...
See what playing Manhunt does to ya?
>Sod After Burner - where the feck is Outrun? Eh?
>There was a Sega Ages version for the Saturn and
>it rocked. Come on you 3D Ages guys, sort your
>stall out!
Who cares about OutRun - it sucks - or rather, I sucked at it, therefore it sucks.
IIRC, Acclaim, erm, claimed that Burnout was going to be a point-to-point racer in the spirit of OutRun. That would have rules, as Burnout was a rocking racer at the time, bettered only by Burnout 2.
I wake sweating and trembling in the depths of the night, with fading memories of disturbing dreams about the things EA with do to Burnout...
See what playing Manhunt does to ya?
config 10 Mar 2004 08:40
4/5
almondVanHelsing wrote:
>Hee Hee, "Sega Ages" just reminds me of the
>Commodore CD-32 advert that was put up in UK
>outside Sega's HQ.
LOL! That goes back a few years. What was it - "it'll take SEGA AGES to be this good" - with the AGES in the SEGA typeface?
Heady days, those. Sigh. I still yearn for a game of the massively underrated Virocop, and dream of Alien Breed 3D in high-res :)
>Hee Hee, "Sega Ages" just reminds me of the
>Commodore CD-32 advert that was put up in UK
>outside Sega's HQ.
LOL! That goes back a few years. What was it - "it'll take SEGA AGES to be this good" - with the AGES in the SEGA typeface?
Heady days, those. Sigh. I still yearn for a game of the massively underrated Virocop, and dream of Alien Breed 3D in high-res :)
brainofedsan 10 Mar 2004 15:34
5/5
Get yr import hats on...The 2500 Ages series will not be comming to Europe.