It even owes money to the local pizzeria...
It even owes money to the local pizzeria...
Lo Wang is back in this new take on the 1997 shooter...
Sega's Sonic CD never received the audience it deserved: a technologically
supercharged (by 1993 standards) upgrade of the classic 2D Sonic formula, the
game was intended as proof of the awesome power of the Sega CD add-on but ended
up sitting unplayed in closets, sandwiched between unworthy cellmates such as
Night Trap and Sewer Shark. Now, Microsoft's Major Nelson (Larry Hryb) has
confirmed that one of the least rereleased Sonic title will get a new start on
Xbox Live Arcade – and will be on show at PAX Prime this weekend...
If it seemed like not
much an official fanfare was being made of the triumphant return of Sonic CD in
the form of an XBLA port, perhaps that’s only because the game’s new audience is much
wider than that. Sega has announced that the game will be making it to pretty
much every platform you give a damn about by the end of the year, unless you
give a damn about something that’s not XBLA, PSN, PC, iPhone, iPad, Android or
Windows Phone. Notable by its exception is the platform plenty of people still
technically give a damn about, the Wii. Is the Sega/Nintendo enmity making a
late comeback? (No)…
We were pleased as punch
to see Sega returning to Sonic CD after ignoring impassioned pleas for years
about rereleasing it. Sega did a real 180 on the game this year, as the port is
coming to virtually every service known to man: Xbox Live Arcade, PSN, PC, iOS,
Android and even Windows Phone (sorry Wii owners).
We just got hold of a new trailer with sexy new/old footage of the game, along
with a claim that doesn’t make much sense...
Sonic CD's relaunch begins tomorrow, with European PSN, US XBLA, and iOS players first in line to propel the mascot through endless environments of neon and improbably-placed loops. A launch trailer's here to remind you how wild-looking games were before we all discovered WWII and the color brown...
Is this the biggest collection of video games ever sold in one go on eBay? Probably. And most of them have never even been opened, let alone played...