In the last issue of Game Developer Magazine, its staff, along with Gamasutra staff members, named their top 30 game developers of all time. Included in the list was SEGA AM2. Here’s what they had to say:
“Sega in general is near and dear to our hearts, but we wanted to give Yu Suzuki’s team a special nod for their string of great work from After Burner and OutRun to Virtua Fighter and Shenmue. AM2 made arcades a magical place to be, and we miss that.”
Certainly nice words for a well-deserving studio, especially considering the rest of the studios they were among.
Here’s the full, in-order list:
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development
Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts
id Software
Epic Games
Bungie
Maxis
MicroProse
Treasure
Square
BioWare
Origin Systems
Sega AM2
Looking Glass Studios
Game Freak
Valve Software
Blizzard Entertainment
Capcom
Kojima Productions
Bullfrog Productions
Mojang
Ubisoft Montreal
Riot Games
Platinum Games/Clover Studios
thatgamecompany
Electronic Arts – We See Farther devs
Sierra On-Line
Rare
MAME Team
Infocom
HAL Laboratory
Do you think there were any snubs? Perhaps Sonic Team or even Sumo Digital?
