Comments on: Sega Turning On Virtual On Development?

By: Ollie Barder

Ollie Barder — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:54:39 +0000

The trademark exists abroad because Kotobukiya have a US office (http://www.kotous.com/). So even if they don’t release the kits in the US, SEGA still have to make sure that they’re covered. Plus, they’re model kits not toys.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:27:26 +0000

@Ollie – That’s an interesting point about the toys, but if I’m correct the toys you’re referring to are being made in Japan whereas this trademark was re-registered in the USA. If this trademark was related to the toys wouldn’t it make more sense for Sega to do the same thing in Japan?

I checked the Japanese Patent & Trademark database after your comment and didn’t see anything new since the previous trademark is still active.

Anyways, like I mentioned above this is probably a protective trademark. Sega has re-registered trademarks for a handful of Dreamcast games like Jet Set Radio and Sonic Shuffle which just happened a few days ago too.

By: Ollie Barder

Ollie Barder — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:05:46 +0000

This is to do with the new line of model kits from Kotobukiya (http://vo.kotobukiya.co.jp/), which are based around the OMG and Oratan games. Up and till recently Hasegawa have also been making kits from Force and Marz, so the trademark for Oratan wasn’t needed.

As for a Wii or XBLA version; that would be a laughably bad idea. The Wii controls don’t have the precision for jump cancels, let alone guard cancels and an XBLA version would just suck on the pad (it did for Marz).

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:27:11 +0000

NOICE! Here’s hoping that VOOT is a XBLarcade port.

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:21:21 +0000

Haha, yes! I hope they bring a new Virtual On out for Wii. That has the potential to be so, so awesome.

SELECT YOUR MACHINE!!!

By: jarrod

jarrod — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:31:16 +0000

Sega didn’t even originally publish VOOT here, Activision did.

Sega should do FORCE for Wii with WFC mulit/coop. I know Marz on PS2 was basically FORCE with a mission mode, but it was terrible. Sega should also port the original VO to DS, maybe using the “Kids” bighead mode that M2 added to the PS2 Sega Ages release. Actually, I would mind if Sega extended the Ages line to DS in general… the machine seems about perfect for Saturn/Model 2 conversions and could probably handled the emulated AC/M3/MD collections well too.