With Acclaim handling the publishing duties.
Want to kick off 2022 with an amazing revelation? How about this? Virtua Fighter 3 might have made its way to the Nintendo 64, had former Sega of America boss Bernie Stolar gotten his way.
This particular bombshell comes from former games journalist James Mielke, who is now a producer at Limited Run Games. We need to travel all the way back to the year 2000 for this one; a time when Sega was still actively supporting its Dreamcast console but was at something of a crossroads. The company was in dire financial straits, and despite the reasonably positive commercial performance of the Dreamcast in the west, it was about to take the long, painful step into the world of third-party publishing. However, the official announcement of this seismic shift wouldn’t come until early in 2001, and in 2000 there was certainly no shortage of people who were utterly convinced that Sega would remain a hardware maker forevermore.
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