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Last month, SEGA officially announced that they would be delisting a majority of their mobile ports of old-school classics. In a bittersweet move, ahead of the titles’ removal from storefronts, SEGA has made all of the games free to purchase.
SEGA pushed an update to many of its ‘classics’ on mobile last month with a message stating that “Support for this game will be discontinued, but you can continue playing offline!”
The list of impacted titles included:
- Crazy Taxi
- Golden Axe
- Shining Force
- Sonic CD
- Sonic 4 Ep. II
- Streets of Rage 1 & 2
- Super Monkey Ball: Sakura
- Virtual Tennis Challenge
These games are set to join the list of other SEGA classics which were discontinued back in 2023 (including the likes of Ristar; Vectorman; Comix Zone and a dozen more).
In a welcome move, all of the titles listed above have now been made free to claim and download ahead of their delisting. This means that you should be able to redownload the titles whenever, even after the fact.
That said, as iOS and Android devices get updated over time, API requirements change, and so eventually these titles will likely no longer work.
With no exact date for when the titles will be removed, make sure to ‘purchase’ any games which you plan to play as soon as possible.
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