Veteran SEGA developer Yosuke Okunari has stated in a Famitsu feature that he has been hard at work on a massive project cataloging everything SEGA has made, both hardware and software, to create one giant library. Mr. Okunari wants this gargantuan collection of games available to play on modern hardware, which is clearly one hell of a task. Licensing could be an issue but even if Okunari gets half of them playable on current hardware that would be spectacular. Here’s what he said:
“For the past few years, I’ve been working on creating an in-house game database,” Okunari explained. “I still have a long way to go to complete it, but a search of the current version reveals that, excluding ports and remakes, there are about 2,800 Sega game titles. Including all of them, there are about 4,500 titles.”
“Once this database is complete, I’d like to make it fully playable,” Okunari continued. “But I’ll probably retire before then, so I’ll likely have to hand over the work to someone else.” The task in question is one on such a seemingly impossible scale that I’m not sure how I’d feel if I were the one left to complete Okunari’s life’s work – terrified at the prospect, or excited and honored at being the one the veteran believes might be able to make it happen.
GIVE US THE DAMN SHENMUE 1+2!
It should be like the Internet Archive and open to everyone. Basically the opposite to what Nintendo does.
Yes, no more renting of 30-40 year old games. It’s a little greedy
For me, they were dead after the Dreamcast; their game development skills were dead too.
Sad but true, we lost one of the best developers in history after the dreamcast… sob… Skies of Arcadia and Landstalker are gods games.
Shining Force 3 all three discs in English, Eternal Champions (CD), Fighters Megamix, Skies of Arcadia, and PSO ep 1 and 2 with the four player split screen would be amazing on modern consoles.
Imagine 2,800 games and still failing. Sega has mainly been keeping a float and relevance due to the Sonic Movies and Persona and Persona they kind of cheated by buying Atlas. Sega doesn’t make Persona, Atlas does but Sega sure is Milking it. Joker in Smash Bros. Probably helped them a lot. The only other Sega Games I hear nobody complain about are the Alien games and thats not even a in house IP.
GIVE US RISTAR ON MODERN PLATFORMS. Oh and find my pages
Theres a Physical Sega Genesis Compilation Game on Switch that is also Playable on Switch 2. It’s missing Sonic 3 & Knuckles but mostly everything else is there. Has online multiplayer as well.