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Sega Ages: Herzog Zwei announced (Switch)

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Actually a bunch of Sega Ages ports just got announced, including:
Arcade Shinobi
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Fantasy Zone
G-Loc
Puzzle & Action: Tant-R

Arcade Shinobi is new to Sega Ages, but the rest have been seen on other collections in the past. But really the big news IMO is the Sega Ages port of Herzog Zwei, the first time this game has been available on modern systems for a long time. This is a pretty significant release for Sega, for a number of historical reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei

Herzog Zwei is largely credited as creating the RTS genre. Created by Technosoft, the company who would later make Thunder Force III and IV, it's a pioneering game in a genre that Sega, over on the PC side of the company, has become synonymous for. Sega has quietly become THE RTS company in gaming, and their purchase of Technosoft's IPs recently has opened the door to this.

Like all Sega Ages releases, this will be handled by M2, so probably lots of goodies included.

Get hyped, this is the first rerelease of this game since 1990!!
 
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Virtua King said:
Another Technosoft G.O.A.T. I hope it has online.
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online play would be incredible, I had never thought of that. I was thinking more about how you could use two joy cons to play local multiplayer pretty easily.

I love Sega flexing their Technosoft muscle. Technosoft was always synonymous with Sega in my eyes back in those days. The very first games I got for my Genesis were Sonic 1 and Thunder Force III.

I hope they bring back Elemental Master too.
 
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Krejlooc said:
online play would be incredible, I had never thought of that. I was thinking more about how you could use two joy cons to play local multiplayer pretty easily.

I love Sega flexing their Technosoft muscle. Technosoft was always synonymous with Sega in my eyes back in those days. The very first games I got for my Genesis were Sonic 1 and Thunder Force III.

I hope they bring back Elemental Master too.
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Yeah, I love Technosoft too, and would be totally on board for Elemental Master. My dream is if for M2 to start bringing us Saturn releases next so that we can get Hyper Duel and ofc Thunder Force V.
 
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SEGAaaaa...
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Where is it, SEGA?
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WHERE IS IT?
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Stevo

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Just yesterday I did the Nintendo survey for Sega Ages Phantasy Star. I suggested they bring over more Phantasy Star and RPGs in general and this is what they announce!?
 

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G-LOC's new, there are old 8/16-bit versions from forever ago but no genuine arcade ports.

Herzog Zwei has online play, they mentioned it during the announcement.
 
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Wasn't there supposed to be a follow up to Herzog Zwei? I swear I saw screenshots somewhere, from some time ago
 
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Stevo said:
Just yesterday I did the Nintendo survey for Sega Ages Phantasy Star. I suggested they bring over more Phantasy Star and RPGs in general and this is what they announce!?
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You did the survey yesterday, and already expected them to have work-in-progress footage of games running on Switch? That's a bit too fast of a turnaround.
 
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'Puzzle & Action: Tant-R ' is one of the greatest Sega arcade games.

The game that served as the blueprint for the 'Wario Ware' series.

My favorite announcement.
 
Sean Mirrsen

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georaldc said:
Wasn't there supposed to be a follow up to Herzog Zwei? I swear I saw screenshots somewhere, from some time ago
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There was a spiritual successor called AirMech. It's gone through several iterations and ended up being quite different, though the core concepts (player-controlled transforming transport/combat unit, lack of traditional RTS controls, building capture/area control mechanics) remained. It's a F2P title on Steam now, IIRC.
 
SharpX68K

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Holy Fuck. Herzog Zwei has never been re-released on any platform since the original 1989 / 1990 release on Mega Drive / Genesis. Edit: OP already mentioned that.

As far as reviews, most of us only remember the fairly bad scores that Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it.
However, Game Players magazine praised Herzog Zwei and made it Sega Genesis Game of the Month in their June 1990 issue.


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Edit: I remember reading all of this at Toys R Us (yes they had some game mags back in the day, especially Game Players).

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Edit: As for G-Loc, this I think is the first time the arcade version has been brought home!
 
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Sean Mirrsen said:
There was a spiritual successor called AirMech. It's gone through several iterations and ended up being quite different, though the core concepts (player-controlled transforming transport/combat unit, lack of traditional RTS controls, building capture/area control mechanics) remained. It's a F2P title on Steam now, IIRC.
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Did they ever add music to AirMech? I can't play games without music, and Herzog Zwei had amazing music, I'll be glad to play it again!
 
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Dreamwriter said:
Did they ever add music to AirMech? I can't play games without music, and Herzog Zwei had amazing music, I'll be glad to play it again!
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Well they've got OSTs, so I presume yes. Also apparently there's now a VR game spinoff (AirMech Command), and a story-based singleplayer campaign game (AirMech Wastelands). The original, multiplayer action-RTS game is now called AirMech Strike.
 
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Krejlooc said:
Actually a bunch of Sega Ages ports just got announced, including:
Arcade Shinobi
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Fantasy Zone
G-Loc
Puzzle & Action: Tant-R

Arcade Shinobi is new to Sega Ages, but the rest have been seen on other collections in the past. But really the big news IMO is the Sega Ages port of Herzog Zwei, the first time this game has been available on modern systems for a long time. This is a pretty significant release for Sega, for a number of historical reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei

Herzog Zwei is largely credited as creating the RTS genre. Created by Technosoft, the company who would later make Thunder Force III and IV, it's a pioneering game in a genre that Sega, over on the PC side of the company, has become synonymous for. Sega has quietly become THE RTS company in gaming, and their purchase of Technosoft's IPs recently has opened the door to this.

Like all Sega Ages releases, this will be handled by M2, so probably lots of goodies included.

Get hyped, this is the first rerelease of this game since 1990!!
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It's actually not Tant-R, it's the medieval-themed sequel, Ichidant-R. Which is neat because as far as I know that's never had a Western release? [EDIT: Actually, Japanese Nintendo says it includes the overseas version, so I guess it did. Must be a rare one like Puyo Puyo 1?] I don't think there's even been an arcade port since the Saturn Sega Ages series.

Sad that there's no Golden Axe: RoDA, but hopefully that will still happen? With these announcements they've blown past their original announcement of 15 games, so hopefully they're doing well.

All the new games are up on the website: http://archives.sega.jp/segaages/

And if anyone's wondering why the release of the Sega Ages games is slower than announced (it was supposed to be two per month), it's probably because M2 is doing the software for the Mega Drive Mini!
 
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SharpX68K

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In the same issue of EGM (#10, May 1990) where they review Herzog Zwei, they also preview G-Loc from ACME 1990 show.

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It's funny that both of these games were just announced for Switch.
 
KennyLinder

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I've not played that Shinobi before, but Revenge of Shinobi was one of my my favourite Mega Drive games. I assume this is similar? (Also we need Revenge on Switch by M2 :) )
 
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KennyLinder said:
I've not played that Shinobi before, but Revenge of Shinobi was one of my my favourite Mega Drive games. I assume this is similar? (Also we need Revenge on Switch by M2 :) )
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The MD games are a bit different design wise, since they aren't designed around quarter munching like arcade titles are. Similar but more linear and harder.
 
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Cool, Herzog Zwei is a blind spot for me.

Wonder Boy and Shinobi are also good news.
I would prefer the Master System version of Shinobi but I'm sure they'll retroactively add the QoL improvements it had in the arcade version.
 
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