Something to get the duke's blood boiling

[Goonboy_Panzer]

here some news about a Sega site that they created ages ago…

According to an announcement partially translated by consumer game site GameSpot, Sega has launched a new online community site in Japan, named Sega Link. Much of the site?s focus is on games, with a large collection of titles split into three main categories of simple online games, classic Sega titles and more complex online games.

This move is interesting in light of the increasing interest in playing classic games online for a fee - in particular Turner’s GameTap service has announced a Fall start date for an ‘all you can eat’ monthly online game service which includes a large amount of classic Sega-licensed titles.

However, it appears Sega’s Japanese service has chosen smaller fees for daily rental, as opposed to a larger monthly fee, a business model that may be more suitable for Japan, where regular small fees for playing cellphone games is somewhat more common.

The ‘Sega Classic’ games on the Sega Link site are Windows versions of twenty different 16-bit Genesis/Mega Drive titles, including Phantasy Star III, E-SWAT, Columns and Golden Axe. The games are priced at ?120 ($1.12) for 24 hours? play, with the site promising that the library of titles will increase to over 100 in the near future.

In addition, the ‘Link Collection’ section houses more complex games that can be played online against other Sega Link users. The five games currently available are Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, Derby Owner?s Club Online, Virtua On, The Typing of the Dead 2004 and Virtua Fighter 2. These games cost between ?210 ($1.96) and ?240 ($2.23) to play, depending on the complexity of the title.

All the services on the site are paid for with electronic funds called Sega Cash, which are purchased online in increments of between ?1,000 ($9.32) and ?10,000 ($93.20). As well as games, the site also features content such as online fortune telling, photo albums, user weblogs and the opportunity to chat and interact with other Sega Link users.

What’s betting that ShF 3 becomes a part of this? they already did the game as a download a few years back now they have cottened on to make money out of it. Too bad we’ll never see this in the west.

[Robert_Frazer]

Eh? How’s this supposed to make anyone angry? So Sega is making some of its back-catalogue available to play online for a fee. Is this a crime?

Also, suddenly making the baseless unfounded leap between “16-Bit titles” to Shining Force III (which I think you’d have som edifficultly playing on a browser anyway) is also unwarranted, and, to be frank, stupid too. Stop trying to create an artifical hullaballoo out of absolutely nothing.

[Arcie]

Nintendo are doing a similar thing with Revolution, putting their back catalogue up for download. The problem is, my favourite SNES games, with few exceptions, were all by a third party; namely Rare. DKC 1-3 and Killer Instinct. I never did get to play Killer Instinct 2 (Fulgore looked awesome in it, too). Maybe there is still hope for it.

[Der_Metzgermeister]

KI2 was fun. It was called KIGold on the 64 for some reason though…here anyways. I might get a revolution just for the fact that I can get KI, the mario parties, warioware, and (hopefully) uniracers

[Arcie]

My fondest memory of KI.

Friend: “Dude, quit playing Fulgore, he sucks ass. Play Spinal or something.”

Me:

inhale

FK Cyber Dash, Mk autodouble, QP Manual autodouble, FK Eye Laser Linker, Mk autodouble, QP Manual, QP plasmaslice, Ultra Sequence, Triple Laser Storm.

ULTRA! ULTRA! ULTRA! 30 Hits.

Me: “No.”

[Der_Metzgermeister]

I wish Rare would make another KI game. I need to buy a controller for computer, I have the rom but playing with a keyboard sucks, as I thought it would. Or I could just rent it from the library and then say I lost it and just pay the fine… I wonder how much that fine is…

[Goonboy_Panzer]

[quote=“Robert Frazer”]Eh? How’s this supposed to make anyone angry? So Sega is making some of its back-catalogue available to play online for a fee. Is this a crime?

Also, suddenly making the baseless unfounded leap between “16-Bit titles” to Shining Force III (which I think you’d have som edifficultly playing on a browser anyway) is also unwarranted, and, to be frank, stupid too. Stop trying to create an artifical hullaballoo out of absolutely nothing.[/quote]

Oh shut up you fool,knowing Sega SHINING FORCE 3 will be made available for download as they’ve done it BEFORE. Obviously this site is also aimed at Japanese players and we all know Sega’s Western ones are the least of their piorities when trying to please their fan base.

I don’t see why Sega couldn’t do this with the other regions since they have been more popular over here.