These classic remakes didn't even offer the original game to appease the people that may have fond memories of when these games were first available in arcades. And what's more, the original feel of the classic games, for the most part, weren't retained in the updated editions.

Game engines were incredibly sloppy with slow-down and framerate drops, textures were bland and low resolution, character animations were lifeless and amateurish. The problem: the games in the Japanese series were clearly budget titles right from the boot up. Games like After Burner II, Alien Syndrome, Golden Axe and other Sega brands were given additional life as new developments on the PlayStation 2. The idea of the 3D Ages project was to delve into Sega's backlog of classic games and revive them in more contemporary 3D engines and designs at a budget price. Each one of the ten games put on the Sega Classics Collection disc began its life several years ago as one-off budget games produced and published by an off-shoot company of Sega's: 3D Ages.

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