God bless Sega. Over the past few months, the company has released a number of its classics on Xbox Live Arcade, including numerous entries in the Sonic series (topped off by the Dreamcast favorite Sonic Adventure), Streets of Rage 2, and Gunstar Heroes. Later this month, we’ll be cruising for a bruising with a near-perfect port of the race-anywhere game Crazy Taxi, and next year we’ll get Space Channel 5 Part 2 and Sega Bass Fishing. But, really, we’re greedy, because we want more. We’ve sifted through several lists of Sega classics and came up with a list of ten we absolutely, positively want on Xbox Live Arcade. Touched up, in original format, we don’t care, just give us these games, Sega. Let us know what you think of our choices, too!
10. Sonic CD: Since we’ve gotten pretty much every title that’s made Sonic famous to begin with anyway, why skip out on one that’s been a fan favorite for years? Sonic CD stretched out the gameplay across time, allowing you to go between past, present and future across vastly designed levels, trying to stop Dr. Robotnik. While we prefer the classic Japanese soundtrack to the rock-heavy U.S. one, we’ll take either at this point, just so we can play this beloved Sega CD favorite again – without needing to worry about a bulky CD unit attachment.
9. Fighters Megamix: One of Sega’s greatest fighting games managed to throw everything but the kitchen sink into it, overflowing with content. Featuring a variety of fighters from Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers and other franchises (it’s great to see the Hornet do something different besides racing), it totally rocked the Sega Saturn, and made our weekends breeze by with fighting tournaments galore. With the support of online play and possible new fighters (let’s add Ryo Hazuki to the cast!), this game could really benefit from a second life. C’mon, Sega, we can’t play Virtua Fighter 5 forever.
8. Jet Grind Radio: While we’re big fans of the Xbox follow-up Jet Set Radio Future, nothing beats the original JGR. When this baby came out for the Sega Dreamcast, we were wowed by its combination of fun skating action and crazy graffiti spraying. Plus, it has one of the best game soundtracks in memory, with all kinds of danceable beats that would fit in to any club. We beg Sega to bring this back, if only to introduce it to a new generation of gamers and show them what they missed earlier this past decade. This Radio deserves to be turned up.
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