why no Legendary Axe?

[Warriorisabouttodie]

I was going through the Turbo Grafx section of the Virtual Console. They seem to have a ton of TG16 games, almost all of my favorites (Galaga 90!) but why no Legendary Axe games? What is the deal with this glaring omission? Does anyone know if there is a reason they are not available?

[Atariboy]

I was going through the Turbo Grafx section of the Virtual Console. They seem to have a ton of TG16 games, almost all of my favorites (Galaga 90!) but why no Legendary Axe games? What is the deal with this glaring omission? Does anyone know if there is a reason they are not available?

 

While I can't give you a definitive answer on this, I suspect it's because whoever owns it (NEC or Victor Interactive) hasn't submitted it for release. Most of the Virtual Console releases for this console are titles that Hudson Soft owns, only a few other companies have released TG16 titles on it such as Namco.

 

I suspect Nintendo and Hudson Soft would like to see them be released, but the right's holders just haven't saw it worthwhile enough to do so, or perhaps haven't even considered it yet. Some of these companies don't really even know what they own when it comes to their back catalog of titles.

Edited November 27, 2009 by Atariboy

[Cybergoth]

I'm still hoping to see Rainbow Islands on the VC. I think there are a few Taito titles for the PC-Engine available already, like Chase HQ.