More than 60 classic Sega games will be removed from digital stores, including Crazy Taxi, Golden Ax and Jet Set Radio.
Starting December 6 at 11:59 pm PST (that’s 7:59 am on December 7, for those of us in the UK), the affected games will no longer be available for purchase. Of course, if you already have a game in your library, it will still be available to download and play whenever you want.
In an FAQ, Sega noted that some individual classic titles will still be playable for those of us who have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. No explanation was given as to why these changes are being made. Eurogamer has contacted Sega for more information.
The full list of titles being delisted in December can be seen below.
Titles to be delisted from Steam:
- Alex Kidd in the haunted castle
- alien soldier
- alien storm
- Altered beast
- Beyond the oasis
- Battle against biological risks
- Bonanza Bros.
- columns
- Columns 3
- comic zone
- Take strong action
- crazy taxi
- Stripping attack
- Dr. Robotnik’s Bad Bean Machine
- Dreamcast Collection Pack
- Heady dynamite
- Ecco Jr.
- Ecco the dolphin
- Ecco: The tides of time
- ESWAT: City under siege
- eternal champions
- fatal labyrinth
- Flicky
- galaxy force 2
- Gain ground
- Golden Ax
- golden ax 2
- Golden Ax 3
- Gunstar Heroes
- Jet Set Radio
- child chameleon
- Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
- light crusader
- Mega Drive and Genesis Classic Bundle
- nights in dreams
- fantasy star 2
- Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom
- Phantasy Star 4: The End of the Millennium
- Ristar
- SEGA Bass Fishing
- Shadow Dancer
- bright force
- bright force 2
- Shining in the dark
- Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master
- 3D sonic explosion
- sonic ball
- Space Channel 5: Part 2
- Space Harrier 2
- streets of rage
- streets of rage 2
- streets of rage 3
- Super Thunder Sword
- vermilion sword
- Shinobi’s Revenge
- ToeJam and Earl
- ToeJam and Earl in panic at Funkoton
- VectorMan
- VectorMan 2
- Virtua fighter 2
- The Boy Wonder in Monster World
- Wonder Boy 3: Monster’s Lair
Titles to be removed from the Xbox list
- Altered beast
- crazy taxi
- Sega Genesis Classics
- Golden Ax
- monster world
- nights in dreams
- Sega Bass Fishing
- Shinobi
- sonic the fighters
- streets of rage
- SVC: ToeJam and Earl
- Virtua fighter 2
Titles to be delisted on Nintendo Switch
Titles to be delisted from PlayStation
As for what’s still in store for Sega, its Crazy Taxi reboot will be a massively open-world multiplayer game, which the developer says is “AAA” in scope.
This project was one of five new classic franchise titles announced last December, along with new entries in Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Ax and Streets of Rage.
