SEGA’s new legacy video games will “retain the essence of the unique whereas adapting it to fashionable tastes”

SEGA introduced fairly some time again that it’s engaged on bringing again a few of its basic IPs corresponding to Loopy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio and extra. In a brand new interview SEGA president and COO, Shuji Utsumi, mentioned that he can’t wait to see and listen to peoples impressions of the completed merchandise. He acknowledged that the event groups have been working rigorously to “retain the essence of the unique whereas adapting it to fashionable tastes.” Right here’s what Mr. Utsumi mentioned in regards to the tasks through machine translation.

In June, the brand new Loopy Taxi title, Loopy Taxi: World Tour, significantly excited Sega followers. Along with Loopy Taxi, we hear you might be additionally creating new titles based mostly on legacy IPs. How is that progressing?

Utsumi: We’re at present creating titles corresponding to “[Title of previous title ]” and “[ Title of previous title],” which we now have already introduced. I can’t provide you with any particulars but, however I’m very a lot wanting ahead to them. I might love for longtime followers to provide us their sincere opinions. On the similar time, I would really like people who find themselves unfamiliar with the collection to see that “Sega makes video games like this too.” We will probably be ensuring to retain the essence of the unique whereas adapting it to fashionable tastes. We’re at present creating titles corresponding to Jet Set Radio and Streets of Rage.

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