This bump is NOT a 3D Outrun release date! For shame.
Sorry for doing the same, even when I myself thought the release date was announced when I opened the thread. At the same time, these fantastic M2 ports do need every bit of attention we can give them!
When will they do 3D Classics ports of more arcade games like Outrunners, Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder or even Crazy Taxi?
They have a goldmine of unported arcade titles that they're sitting on!
They have been sitting on so many for a LONG time. I am thankful for what we have gotten, but it seems we keep getting the same ones and the ones that were ignored, keep getting ignored. Hopefully that will change.
I'm thinking it might be a problem of the source code not having been saved properly for some of these games at least (Outrunners and Revenge of Death Adder in particular).
I could be wrong, but why else wouldn't Sega at this point throw its fans a bone and create ports for such games? Of course there are costs involved, but since they would be released as parts of a series that already has the attention of the correct crowd of people (since most people who will buy these games will be old school Sega fans I'd imagine - save perhaps for the Sonic one) why not take the jump here like they did with Galaxy Force? Except when they can't for some reason due to missing source code that is.
And not to derail and depress us even further, but what would some other classic Sega games be that we would like Sega to release on 3DS this way? Let's daydream for a bit shall we?
Apart from Turbo Outrun, which I've mentioned before, I've always remained interesed in the arcade version of Moonwalker myself (which seems very unlikely to ever be ported). As for later games, a re-release of some of the Panzer Dragoon games in 3D would also be appreciated as I keep missing out on that series for some reason. Outrun 2, Harley Davidson, Hummer, Ollie King and Sega Race TV would also be cool, though they seem even less likely. Sigh, I just miss the energetic, colourful and over-the-top style of Sega's output in those days I guess.
Edit: Some other arcade games I just thought of: AB Cop (suitable since it uses sprite scaling as well), Thunder Blade (arcade version, sprite scaling again), Shinobi 1 and Shadow Dancer (and Revenge of Shinobi on Genesis to complete the set), Dynamite Dux (for shits and giggles), ESWAT, Alien Storm (the first person shooting stages would look nice especially), DD Crew (if for the intro theme alone!). All pipe dreams of course, but still.
