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SEGA's Fighting Circus (Unreleased game worked on by Ohshima & Okunari)

Discussion in 'General Sega Discussion' started by Rlan, Sep 5, 2023.

  1. Rlan

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  2. Ted909

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    From GSK:
     
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  3. Mookey

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    So wait, Sega's whole ploy on getting Naka back to Japan was to create a vaporware game directed by another guy and hope it made him jealous/interested enough that he would return?

    Very on point all around is all I can say.
     
  4. Black Squirrel

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    I think it's more "let's pull Ohshima off this stupid project so we can reform the old Sonic Team".
     
  5. aria

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    Absolutely love the art posted by Ohshima, hope we see more someday. God it's such a vibe.
     
  6. Azookara

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    Fighting Circus definitely feels like NiGHTS's missing link between "we wanted to make a game where you could fly" and "so we made weird dream-clowns the main characters". Interesting.
     
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  7. Ted909

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    I'm getting distinct shades of "failed fighting game" from it too though; you know the ones. All those titles made in the wake of SFII that just didn't catch on - Konami had loads, but Sega also did Dark Edge and Burning Rival before they struck gold with VF. Even without internal politics shenanigans involving Naka I fail to see how this actually could've been successfully released.
     
  8. Black Squirrel

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    I don't know what the time period for this is, but if it's say, 1994/1995 (i.e. just before NiGHTS) you're competing with AM2's Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers. And maybe Sonic the Fighters.

    I'm not sure I would be wanting to challenge AM2 with their military grade arcade hardware.
     
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    In '93 Gamefan referred a few times to an upcoming Sega game called Real Fighters, later on saying it was changed to Eternal Champions.

    This was quite some time before anything about Burning Fists / Force Striker existed... I think.
     
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  10. cartridgeculture

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    Hm. Any idea what the name "Elandoll" means?