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Sega brings emulated Streets of Rage to the iPhone

by Ben Gilbert on Jul 18th 2009 12:00AM

Sega today announced intentions to bring Streets of Rage to the iPhone. When's it coming out you ask? How's about right now! That's right, folks. Because of Apple's policy on speaking about iPhone apps/games before release, Sega simultaneously announced the game's existence with its release.

Unfortunately, our friends at Touch Arcade were none too impressed with Sega's port, saying the game suffers from tremendous slow down and renders the game "unplayable on the 3GS." Oh no! We're too busy spending our time with Drop7 to play anything else on the iPhone, so how about you tell us, Joystiq Biomass™. Anyone drop the $4.99 for Streets of Rage today and encounter any problems?

Tags: app-store, Apple, iphone, iPod, sega, streets-of-rage

Reader Comments (27)

Buh?

Derpy derp, Rob Schneider is... a carrot!! derp a derp!

IPhone sucks,

Careful with the iphone fanboys,there around somewhere.

I agree with Rick, not that the iPhone as a smartphone suck, but as a gaming machine it's horrible. Street of Rage need buttons and D-pad.

There are a mess of good games on the iPhone. This, however, doesn't look like one of them. Try Drop7 or The Moron Test, they're both excellent.

No, porting games badly to the iPhone sucks.

You've been able to run Megadrive/Genesis emulators on handsets like the Nokia for over five years now. With a full set of games. How is this news? One game on the iphone. Make it two with Sonic.

Another reason why http://iphonessuck.com

Damn, not even the iPhone can handle all that blast processing.

While I like my iPhone, I have quickly realized that unless the game has been designed from the ground up for the device, chances are it will suck.

Some great games like Fieldrunners and Rolando really shine, while some ports like this game...show exactly what NOT to do.

This has actually been a problem with every sega iPhone port thus far. Sonic sucked, golden axe sucked, and apparently so does this. It's the horrid emulator that sega decides to use.

Who the fuck cares?

um.... where's the Start button?

Seeing this makes me think of Super Double Dragon.
I want a remake/re-release of that on the digital distribution thingamagoogles.

god, they need to stop porting stuff and make something new.

I actually went to a friend's house this evening and ended up playing this on a homebrewed Wii, and I remember how fucking awesome it was.

So if they're putting this game on cell phones outside Japan, why an emulated version when they could just port the already-available-in-Japan Bare Knuckle Mobile?

Ahh iPhone, the joke of the gaming world.

Sad how some people are actually convinced that it's a viable gaming platform.

How pathetic.

I actually shelved my DS in favor of my iPhone mostly due to the ease of carrying 1 device. Yeah I'm gonna miss the RPGs the most but I don't miss carrying my DS at all. I don't mess with any ports that I've played on actual consoles though.

fellow Blackberry owners can back me up in saying there is only one game you need on your phone.....Brick Breaker

That's only cause you can't get Drop7 on the Blackberry :P

Saying the iphone sucks as a gaming platform is pure stupidity. There are some great games for it like rolando, real racing, tiger woods, need for speed and at least 20 other must have games already.This game was just ported badly but for those who actually learned how to read sega posted a message on the games info page that they are working on a patch for iphone 3gs and thats why it doesnt run good.

Drop7 is stolen from that NUMB3RS online game a while back, that involved slowly handing out clues over time based on aggregate performance. Awesomely fun, nonetheless.

Sega should build a Phantasy Star Online for the iPhone.

Damnit Sega, how do you screw up on a technical level porting a game like Streets of Rage to the iPhone..?

Funny, plays awesomely on my E71.

What is that policy? I've never heard of anything like that

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