SEGA Wants You To Watch Altered Beast, Streets of Rage & More As TV Shows

"Here's an odd one for you; SEGA want's to turn their portfolio of retro games into live-action and animated TV series' and movies.

Strange? Definitely. According to sources, SEGA will attempt to cash-in on their nostalgic games from yesteryear including Altered Beast, Streets of Rage, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Fighter.

Yes, they're seriously going down that route."

[lodossrage]

Virtua Fighter was actually made into an anime LONG ago. It was a tv series.

[psvitamanfan]

Seems like they want to retread old ground and re-do it. Maybe a mash up: Virtua Fighter and Streets of Rage.

A man can wish...

[lodossrage]

Well i guess in a way that's doable. Since, they're both fairly normal games it's not like they can't make them have a shared universe.

Hell, Capcom did it with Street Fighter and Final Fight.

But if Sega really wants to make their franchises into series, they should start with Phantasy Star and Yakuza. It would help with the popularity of both franchises in the west, potentially bringing them over WITHOUT having to beg, plead, make petitions, etc.

[maniacmayhem]

Remember Sega's Fighters Megamix, Virtua Fighter vs Fighting Vipers?

That needs to come back.

[nintendontt]

i dont know man i seen what you done with sonic.

[mixelon]

Crazy taxi live action show sounds terrible.

I'd watch altered beast though. That'd be crazy.

[Inception]

Well if it's good than i'll watch it. I enjoy Virtua Fighter anime series long ago and i had some fun time with classic Sonic tv series.

But Sega should collaborate with Vanillaware or Arc System Work for a new 2D Altered Beast and Streets of Rage. Example like Konami who collaborated with ArcSys for Contra: Hardcorps Uprising. The result is one of the best Contra i ever play.

[Agent_hitman]

Street of Rage was my favorite game back in Sega Genesi Era/days.

[optimus]

This article gives no indication as to how they plan to do this. are they going to license them out? Who will be producing? Everything in the article is very vague and i wouldn't take it seriously after saying the mortal kombat movie wasn't good. It was a big hit back then and was the highest grossing game adaptation of all time (compared to those before it)... Anyhow, i think an animated series would work well for streets of rage, not so sure about crazy taxi.

[tiffac008]

Sakura Taisen needs another anime that is closer to the game than the previous shows.

[No_Pantaloons]

If Sega wanted to cash in on "nostalgic games from yesteryear" they could have, gee IDK, MADE A SEQUEL!

Some of us have been waiting years for them to release updated versions of their classics. Streets of Rage 4 would be a Day 1 buy for me, and I'd SELL MY SOUL for Shining Force 4 on PS4, but they'd rather churn out werewolf sonic games and other **** all these years.

I gave up hope when they butched Golden Axe Beast Rider. That wasn't what fans wanted and pretty much proved they have no clue how to handle their old IP's.

This TV series idea is awful and will rightly go down in flames.

[mydyingparadiselost]

I'd at least check it out, someone could do some great things with these games as as a tv show, especially Altered Beat.

[SegaGamer]

I would much rather see them make new games of these than make tv shows of them.

[ThisJarContainsTHC]

I could see a Streets of Rage ANIME working.