Fantasy Zone Is The Latest Sega Ages Game To Hit Japan

@ZeldaFanboy78 The answer is in the trailer...
Start it up and look on the left side of the in-game screen, where it's clearly readable in English...

For Black Friday, I'm getting Judgement and it has Fantasy Zone included as a bonus game, but I'm still getting this version, I just really like Fantasy Zone

I hope we get Sonic 2 for Christmas.

Cool... I guess

Come on Sega stop messing around release more unported arcade games/
model 1 and 2 games,
Saturn games,
There is so much more !

I may pick this up at some point, at lest partially to support the Sega Ages line (we obviously don't want Sega dropping it for lack of support). That said, aside from the likes of Virtua Racing and the UI-enhanced Phantasy Star, Sega definitely appears to be focusing overwhelmingly on Genesis and early arcade ports here. While I really hope we'll eventually get more ambitious titles ranging from Sega's Model 2/3 arcade lineup to the epic RPGs of the Saturn and Dreamcast, I'm not holding my breath.

Finally we get Jet Set... oh its Fantasy Zone.... again.... great.
Let's pretend the superior 3D version didn't happen on the 3DS.

I guess that's cool but we already got a lot of ports of this.

@KitsuneNight Sega releasing a 90's arcade collection is a dream of mine.

@JayJ

Honestly i'd be happy with Sega Ages releases of those games.
At least the Panzer Dragoon remake is coming.

Noice. So when’s Shinobi coming hurr?

Yeah enough with the making us wait for Sonic 2 already! It’s had a NL page for ages!

https://www.nintendolife.com/games/switch-eshop/sega_ages_sonic_the_hedgehog_2

I pray they are expanding the series after the announced games are finished. It seems to have gone rather quiet from SEGA AGES

What a Snoooooozzzzzzzzzzzzz fest.

@GrailUK SEGA are very concerened over very low sales volume of games they have released a million times before.

@YANDMAN Well I’m no genius, but the solution to that seems very obvious!

@KitsuneNight You not wrong, this is getting a bit lazy now, alot of the SEGA ages games there releasing now have been released before on PS2,Xbox 360 and heck this and Fantasy Zone 2 already had versions made a few years ago on the 3DS with the same features as this one only thing new seems to be the borders/artwork unless it's a puzzle game they aren't really going for SEGA's Arcade gems that haven't been ported yet

I stopped buying SEGA Ages games cus alot of the recent ones aren't that great and don't seem to be getting any better
last real good one was Virtua Racing, guess it's a slim chance we see something like Virtua Fighter 1, Wing War or dare I say something from the Sega Model 2/3 Dreamcast eras

@YANDMAN Only got themselves to blame
They said they were going to include Saturn/Dreamcast era games so where the heck are they? not everyone is going to want to play cute em up from the 80s, I don't even see why it's so hard, some of there Dreamcast games have been ported before Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 even the Xbox one/360 has a better "SEGA AGES" thanks to it's ports of Model 2 games and sega vintage collections

Yeah, I still need to get a decent score on this in Yakuza 0. It's not a bad game, but the name always makes me think of Space Harrier.

I had such high hopes for this series. How about some System 32 or Model 2 games? Other than Virtua Racing it all feels very unambitious.

@ClassSonicSatAm

i wouldn't even mind seeing Outrunners or power drift at this point,
but Sega has so much more.
Daytona usa,
Daytona 2,
Sega Rally,
Virtua Fighter 2,
Fighting Vipers,
Sonic R ( yes even that )
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Crazy Taxi
Virtua Cop 1 and 2
House of the Dead 1 and 2

But Sega is ignoring all of those in favor of the usual suspects and games that have been ported hundreds of times before.
"Hooray another bloody sonic port."
No wonder the sales are lacking everybody is yawning and shrugging.
And they got nobody to blame but themselves with these lazy efforts.

At least its not altered Beast again.
Maybe if they release Golden Axe The Revengie of Death Adder.
People wil take notice again,
Oh , look another flock of flying pigs !

Hm... I have it on the Sega 3D Classics Collection along with the other entries. I'll take a pass on this one, but I might buy on sale just for the bigger screen alone. Because I have to admit that 3DS' little screen and those small sprites tarnish the experience a little.

This is so Nintendo just keep giving us 8 bit and 16 bit console games and never make the jump to 32, 64, 128 bit games.
Nintendo - port Nes and snes but where's the n64 or GC games
Sega - port master and megadrive but where's the Saturn or DC games.

@ClassSonicSatAm No, they never actually said that to my knowledge. That was simply the wishes of the masses that got whiped into existence. SEGA are sat on arguably the largest untapped arcade resource that exists. Model 1,2 and now 3 along with the naomi hardware are accurately emulated. There is absolutely no reason why we do not see some of these games. The likelihood is that several of us will die from anurisyms brought on by the stress of shouting " Do you want our cash SEGGAAA" before that actually happens.

@GrailUK They should be soon, they only have 5 games left to release

Considering they are pushing out these games pretty often, at least to my perception, it's decent enough.

I'll probably pick this up on a sale because I love fantasy zone, but nothing will match the 3ds sega classics version of Fantazy Zone 2

@Kingrat The Master System version is still king, though. It has HP, more rooms to explore, and secret items/shops to discover. What it lacks in graphics it makes up for in nuance. =]

Man, I just bought the two 3DS remakes on sale yesterday! Talk about good timing! It's about time Fantasy Zone graced the Switch.

@KitsuneNight power drift already had a port by M2 for the 3DS tho Japan has the better version with the SEGA all-stars bonus mode
Dayton USA 1 had a great port on PSN/XBLA I think also by M2 with their other Model 2 ports, it's not like they gotta start from scratch, just port over the version they done before if they can port Nights PS2 to everything then why not?

speaking of Sonic ports we never got to see what happen to Sonic 2 not expecting much other then the drop dash and maybe a working version it's arcade mega play version yet it takes AGES for anything when we do it's not much we haven't seen before Space Harrier/Fantasy Zone/Sonic 1 or something that aren't really going to sell to everyone a arcade puzzle game, Puyo Puyo columns, Puzzle bonanza bros The Switch is powerful enough to run Dreamcast/SEGA model 3 heck some of SEGA's modern arcade games too but yet best thing they can offer on Switch is this...

@YANDMAN I guess it doesn't matter if they said it or not. I mean SEGA forever advertising had their other systems like the master system, Dreamcast and Saturn yet all you get on it is Genesis games and the odd Dreamcast game thanks to it being ported to mobile before Crazy Taxi,Jet set radio

SEGA AGES isn't going anywhere, even in the PS2 SEGA AGES games had remakes/ports of some Saturn/Model 2 games

SEGA just aren't trying unless it's Sonic or another Genesis/Mega Drive game

@ClassSonicSatAm It's all about licensing unfortunately and they don't fully own the rights to certain parts of a lot of their games. The reason the same ones get continually knocked out is because they know they own them out right. In the same way, the Sega Ages PS2 collection only existed as they still at that point had those licences and legal aspects locked down.

@YANDMAN Not really I get it with Daytona and Outrun even tho M2 has managed to get Outrun/Turbo Outrun by editing the car a little, could do the same for Outrunners but there's tons of great arcade games that didn't use a licence
golden axe the revenge of death adder
Any of the Virtua Games
Motor Raid which did get a port recently at last but it's stuck in Yakuza
Fighting Vipers
just to name a few

Last I seen most of Sega Ages PS2 releases didn't have any licencing either it just didn't sell well over here the one collection they released in the west anyway only one that had a licence was Die Hard arcade tho they used Dynamite Deka version which they could of gave us like they did with the 2nd game Dynamite Cop

That's the real problem SEGA think japan want all of their games while we don't want their other games unless it's Sonic *I mean the only Sega Model 2 game we got on the PS2 in the west was Sonic the fighters, while Japan got Virtua Fighter 2 Fighting Vipers, Last Bronx, Virtua On This is the same thing that ruin the Saturn

@ClassSonicSatAm You misunderstand. When i say 'Licence' i don't simply mean a licensed property as in a ferrari etc. I amtalking about licensing to game artifacts, artwork and music, all the things that must be obtained to release any game. This is what makes releasing old games on either console or arcade difficult. All of these properties usually belong to multiple people, many of whom maybe be dead or untraceable. lots of game assets are sold off multiple times which again makes tracing the owners to obtain the relevant licence very difficult if not impossible.

@YANDMAN Don't give me that rubbish alot of the games people are asking for SEGA AGES have been re-released and still be brought on other systems Like Daytona, they already made Daytona championship usa recently and you can still buy the Daytona USA port on Xbox 360/one any chance of it coming to the Switch? nope and as I said there's bunch of other Model 2 games in the latest Yakuza that could easily make good choices for the next SEGA AGES games, instead of some Japanese puzzle games not many people have heard of or heck even remember
it's same with the Super Monkey ball game on Switch instead of porting the two better 1st games.. they go with one not many people are interested and even said if people buy that one then maybe there port the two people have been asking for.

SEGA owns alot of great old games despite their developers moved onto other things if what you said is true then Yakuza wouldn't had those arcade games nor would you be able to get M2's Model 2 ports and sega vintage collections on PS3/Xbox 360/One

SEGA as always just keeps making bad choices

@ClassSonicSatAm The 360 version of daytona is a valid point but that release was over ten years ago, along with that release came Virtua Fighter 2, Sonic fighters, fighting Vipers, OUTRUN 2, Virtual on and probably others. These are the ones i own personally. What other games are available to buy on other systems? I am clearly not up on the current SEGA arcade releases.
But facts are facts releasing these games is no simple task or /Rubbish' as you claim. Do a little research into digital eclipse and the issues they have faced with pretty much every release thet have made, Street fighter Collection aside.