Apparently Sega is keen on bringing back some of its classic titles to services like WiiWare and/or XBLA, but over the years has lost the code to its now classic games. Indeed, you'd think a company, especially one like Sega, would hold on tight to that kind of stuff!

[Sega has] a little problem: they can no longer find the source code for their games. Apparently, the cause of the entire mess is the fact that, over the years, the company had moved so many times that a lot of their games were lost. And that's a really strange thing to hear - I have two reasons for saying that.

First, because I was actually hoping that game developers do care about the games they release and manage to archive them somewhere, just in case an opportunity arises (or, at least, in order to show them to their grandchildren). And second, because today, the old code doesn't mean too much anymore: the graphics have to be revamped, the gameplay mechanics have to be rewritten... basically, Sega has to develop new titles and it could do so without the original code.

There are some voices saying that this is actually the company's strategy in order to make everybody forget about the long gone times when it was a console manufacturer, while others say that Sega is not the only firm struggling to find old source codes. Either way, we're really sorry to hear that. We would've loved some Bonanza Bros. action or, at least, some of the most recent games like Virtua Fighter or Sega Rally.

chautemoc via news.softpedia.com »