Propeller Arena: Aviation Battle Championship

Propeller Arena: Aviation Battle Championship

System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Sega Corporation
Developer: Sega-AM2
Planned release date(s): 2001-08^[1]^[2], 2001-10-04^[3], 2001-11-09^[4]
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-4
State before cancellation: Completed
Status of prototype(s): Prototype dumped and released, pressed GD-ROM undumped

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Propeller Arena: Aviation Battle Championship (プロペラアリーナ) is an unreleased Sega Dreamcast combat flight simulator game developed by Sega-AM2 and scheduled to be published by Sega in late 2001.^[3]^[4] Reportedly finished and ready to be published, the game was cancelled at the last minute in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States of America. It is assumed that the "Tower City" stage was the main reason for this decision, as it is possible to fly around and crash planes in a city based on New York, and, according to Sega of America, allows "a determined individual to deliberately play the game in a manner that generates images similar to those we have seen on the news".^[5]

Gameplay

In the game, the player flies various planes across arenas and engages in dogfights, making it a spiritual sequel to Wing War. Propeller Arena was also designed with online multiplayer in mind, and had the servers been activated, would have supported the Dreamcast Microphone (except in Europe, where online play was not set to be featured^[4]).

History

During development the game was known as Propeller Head.^[6]

Propeller Arena was not the only video game to be affected by the news, but is one of the few to be cancelled entirely because of it (another was a planned re-release of Crime Patrol.)

Production credits

Director: Makoto Osaki
Chief Programmer: Tetsuya Sugimoto
Programming Supervisor: Takashi Fujimura
Game Programmers: Takeshi Iwasaki, Masaru Moriguchi, Takayuki Muramatsu, Sumito Aso, Fuminori Sato
Network Programmers: Takashi Fujimura, Tetsuya Sugimoto, Masaru Moriguchi, Shiro Takehara
Chief Designer: Junichi Yamanaka
Plane Modelling: Shigetaka Kyoya
Stage Modelling: Yukitoshi Katsuyama, Wataru Sakomura, Shigetaka Kyoya
Character Design: Shoji Takeuchi
Character Modelling: Rie Sakurai, Atsuo Takayasu
Effect Designer: Takeshi Inaba
Motion Designer: Takashi Ohta
Chief Sound Creator: Tatsutoshi Narita, Keisuke Tsukahara

BGM "SOJ Selections" Staff:

Musicans: Martin Hirsch (Vocals), John Underdown (Vocals), Yu Watanabe (Guitar), Daisuke Nihei (Bass), Yuuki Maeda (Drums)
Engineers: Hiroyuki Hamano (Main Engineer), Tomoyuki Niitsu (Assistant Engineer - IRc2 st), Chitumi Karasawa (Assistant Engineer - MIT st)
Producers: Makoto Suzuki (COMPOZILLA), Takeshi Uehara (MIT GATHERING), Kaori Takai (COMPOZILLA), Tatsutoshi Narita
Composers: Sachio Ogawa, Tomoya Koga