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GOLDEN AXE: BEAST RIDER storms onto shelves this October!

HISTORY OF THE FRANCHISE

The original Golden Axe arcade game was created by Makoto Uchida and his team at SEGA back in 1989 and was immediately a smashing success worldwide. Side scrolling brawlers were very popular in arcades back in the day and Golden Axe's fantasy setting was a perfect fit. Uchida-san's team that created the original game was quite small. 2 programmers, 2 artists, 1 sound person and a project lead completed the project in 6 months.

At the time of its release Golden Axe was quite a technological feat. The detailed graphics, character design and animations were all state of the art for the hardware constraints of the time. Uchida-san has mentioned that the design was mapped out in 3 minute increments - as a quarter in the arcade usually translated into 3 minutes of play for the user. The team tried to pack in as much fun as they could within these segments to encourage gamers to keep playing to "see what came next!"