Posted By
MIK
on 2008-11-28
11:30:19
 |  Re: What's the reason for "No downloads available"?
Computer games and arcade machines were really an underground thing that took advantage of a situation that the masses had not cought up on. It was like selling an illegal drug but now in high street shops where no one knew what was really going on for years other than us! Great times indeed! 
Sega's OutRun (1986) is a classic with its convertible Testarossa. Even in 1996 with the release of Sega Ages for the Sega Saturn Sega re-released OutRun almost arcade perfect.
Come 2001 and Sega changed its ways. The convertible Testarossa was replaced by another convertible car design Sega had now made up them selfs for the game Shenmue 2 so not to brake copyright rulez or whatever the case may be.
When Sumo Digital won the contract to port OutRun2 for XBOX Sega Japan gave them the source code for Shenmue 2's OutRun as a thankyou. Now that Sega had obtained a license for the release of OutRun2 XBOX from Ferrari Sumo Digital went back and returned the original car design to the classic Testarossa. 
Sorry to go on a bit there, just I love this story so much. Your be amazed how many Sega fans ask for the old sega arcade games to show up on XBOXLiVE and the likes but they never think twice about the content of the games them selfs from back then. Shinobi featured Spider Man and also had posters of Marlyn Monroe on some walls if you didnt know!
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