“Sega Forever” classic games collection

Sega is reissuing almost every video game from its back catalogue on iOS and Android, for free. The Sega Forever initiative will allow gamers to play titles with advertisements, or pay $1.99 to have them removed


Sega: Japanese video game developer produced several home game consoles but became third-party game developer after failure of Dreamcast

FEATURES

Save game progress to cloud storage

Global high score leaderboards

Compatible with Bluetooth controllers such as Gamevice

Allow offline play


Hardware emulation and game porting will bring titles back to life

Around 88 million Sonic the Hedgehog games have been sold since 1991


INITIAL RELEASES (new titles added every two weeks)

Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

Altered Beast (1988)

Phantasy Star II (1989)

Kid Chameleon (1992)

Comix Zone (1995)


SEGA CONSOLE HISTORY (and game of note for each system)

1980

SG-1000 (1983) Flicky

Master System (1985) Alex Kidd in Miracle World

Mega Drive* (1988) Sonic the Hedgehog

1990

Saturn (1994) Panzer Dragoon Saga

Dreamcast (1998) Shenmue

2000


Sources: Sega, wire agencies 

*Genesis in North America 

Pictures: © Sega 

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