But its crazy to think that its sequel, Daytona USA 2 never got a home console port.ĭaytona USA 2 is a strange title since the first version of the game dropped its mascot, the Hornet stock car and introduced the ability to choose between three different cars and featured three brand new courses. I consider Daytona USA one of the defining arcade racers of the 90’s and it got its fair share of home ports, some not so great and a few that did the game justice. The closest we have gotten to Scud Race on home consoles is OutRun 2 on the Xbox, which features all four tracks from Scud Race complete with music. AM2 used a demo of Scud Race to show off the Dreamcast in a 1998 Dreamcast presentation, but the port was later cancelled for unknown reasons. Scud Race actually had a port planned on the Sega Saturn and just like Virtua Fighter 3 it got moved over to Dreamcast. Who would later go on to create Super Monkey Ball and the long running Yakuza franchise. Scud Race or Sega Super GT as its known in America, is a AM2 racer and one of the few big AM2 racers that was produced and directed by Toshihiro Nagoshi.
I mean, we are still waiting on the English version of Phantasy Star Online 2. Seeing as SEGA West hasn’t released a console Shining game since 2007’s Shining Force EXA, I wouldn’t hold my breath on this coming to home consoles or state side. While Shining Force Cross came out in 2009 the game has received several big expansions with the latest one coming out in 2014. At first glance it looks like Shining Force Cross is trying to be Phantasy Star Online and I don’t think its a bad thing, considering I’m a big fan of the Phantasy Star Online games. Shining Force Cross takes the Shining franchise in an all new action RPG direction, focusing on fighting as a group and completing quests.
This just means we get to talk about the game. But after looking around the only developer that has had its named attached to the project is AM2 and even has them listed on the game’s wikipedia entry.
Shining Force Cross almost didn’t make it on the list, not because I don’t want a home release for the game but because finding who actually developed it was more of a hassle than I thought. I used console in the title, but honestly I’ll take these ports on PC as well. I’ll be your awesome host, George and today we will be looking at five SEGA-AM2 arcade exclusives that deserve a home port. Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of The Weekly Five where we make a list of various SEGA topics.
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