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The ‘Mother Of Video Games’ Yu Suzuki Gets His Due At GDC

8:30AM February 12, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Yu Suzuki, the man behind classic Sega video games Space Harrier, Out Run, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, will be at this year’s Game Developers Conference for a prestigious accolade, this year’s Pioneer Award. More »


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Five Games That Were, And Should Be Again

9:00PM November 4, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Wolfire, the charitable types developing kooky PC action game Overgrowth, don’t just make games. They imagine what it would be like if people went and remade someone else’s old games, making them as awesome in 2010 as they were originally. More »


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New Space Harrier Coming (If We All Buy Thunderforce VI)

3:30PM November 5, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

More retail hostage-taking! Normally the reserve of smaller publishers and/or Capcom, this time it’s Sega, with Thunderforce VI director Tez Okana telling Edge:

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Weekly Wii Update – Space Harrier, Alien Crush, And Interior Design?

1:20AM November 4, 2008 | Mike Fahey

This week in Nintendo Wii downloadables, two classic franchises make their triumphant return, and if neither tickles your fancy you can always take a crash course in interior design. That’s right, in addition to good old Space Harrier for the Sega Master System (500 points) and Hudson’s classic pinball title reborn in Alien Crush Returns for WiiWare (800 points), Big Blue Bubble releases Home Sweet Home (1,000 points), a WiiWare title that promises all the fun of designing a home interior that you’d get in The Sims without all those pesky Sims running about. Sure to make an excellent stocking stuffer. The most interesting of the three to me is of course Alien Crush Returns. I am a certified video game pinball junkie, and the option to play online against three completely anonymous players only sweetens the deal.

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Shenmue Creator Yu Suzuki No Longer At Sega

6:40AM August 12, 2008 | Michael McWhertor

The hopes of a Yu Suzuki led Shenmue III have just become ground into ever finer particles, as Sega of America president Simon Jeffery tells Gamasutra in a new interview that the legendary developer is no longer at the company.

Jeffery says of Suzuki’s status that “Last I heard, he was doing some online stuff in China”, saying that the Space Harrier and Virtua Fighter creator is “kind of his own man right now”. Suzuki’s recent projects, the arcade game Psy Phi and MMO Shenmue Online never made it to final production stages.

There’s obviously much more to the Jeffery Q&A and, as you may be aware, we’re fans of the frank Sega exec — and not just because he kept hope alive for a System 16 compilation. The entirety of the interview is worth your while.

The Evolution Of Sega: A Conversation With Simon Jeffery [Gamasutra - thanks, Jay!]

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