Comments on: VC Monday: Champions, Heroes, and more http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/03/vc-monday-champions-heroes-and-more/ The secret level in the world of video game news. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:39:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Veilknight http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/03/vc-monday-champions-heroes-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260430 Veilknight Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:16:49 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/03/vc-monday-champions-heroes-and-more/#comment-260430 Eternal Champions is exactly one of the reasons I want to see Sega announce support for Sega CD games on the Virtual Console (other than for Shining Force CD, that is), as without a shallow of a doubt, its successor proclaimed prominently as one of the best titles on Sega's ill-fated upgrade to the Genesis hardware, titled Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side, puts the original game to shame, simply put. Unfortunately, with the Sega CD's decline in sales, especially thanks in part to Sega's decision to announce the Saturn and 32X around Eternal Champion CD's release, the game met with little fanfare, despite the constant praise the game had received from those who actually took the risk and effort to actually track down a copy of the game at retail stores across the country. You know, I'm still rather bitter that the final installment in the trilogy, planned for the Sega Saturn as Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter, was canceled shortly after beginning production. For some reason, in Sega's infinite wisdom, they found it necessary to cancel this promising fighting title in favor of further promoting Virtua Fighter in the US, which we all know has never really been that popular in North America compared to other fighters released around the same time. The Virtua Fighter series has always been more popular in its native country, Japan, and while it was a novel plan for Sega to try to push VF in the United States, it didn't necessarily mean that they had to outright cancel Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter as a result. Eternal Champions is exactly one of the reasons I want to see Sega announce support for Sega CD games on the Virtual Console (other than for Shining Force CD, that is), as without a shallow of a doubt, its successor proclaimed prominently as one of the best titles on Sega’s ill-fated upgrade to the Genesis hardware, titled Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side, puts the original game to shame, simply put.

Unfortunately, with the Sega CD’s decline in sales, especially thanks in part to Sega’s decision to announce the Saturn and 32X around Eternal Champion CD’s release, the game met with little fanfare, despite the constant praise the game had received from those who actually took the risk and effort to actually track down a copy of the game at retail stores across the country.

You know, I’m still rather bitter that the final installment in the trilogy, planned for the Sega Saturn as Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter, was canceled shortly after beginning production. For some reason, in Sega’s infinite wisdom, they found it necessary to cancel this promising fighting title in favor of further promoting Virtua Fighter in the US, which we all know has never really been that popular in North America compared to other fighters released around the same time.

The Virtua Fighter series has always been more popular in its native country, Japan, and while it was a novel plan for Sega to try to push VF in the United States, it didn’t necessarily mean that they had to outright cancel Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter as a result.

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