Sega Is Reopening the Vault: Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Jet Set Radio

Sega is finally doing what Sega should have done a long time ago. Something they have been refusing to do for decades, opening the vault. For all of us SEGA kids (I can still hear the yell every time I say the word Sega) these are the games that made us Sega fans. They have confirmed new entries in Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Jet Set Radio. These are the old dormant properties from the Genesis and Dreamcast era that made most of us Sega fans. It wasn’t all Sonic for the majority of us.

The headline for me is Streets of Rage. The next entry is called Streets of Rage Revolution, and it looks like a modern take on the formula rather than a throwback: Axel Stone is back, pummelling his way through a 2D brawling arena rendered in 3D, with a story framed around former officers trying to take the city back. Streets of Rage 4 already proved in recent years that this series can return without embarrassing itself, so a follow-up has a foundation under it.

Shinobi and Golden Axe round out the Genesis-era trio, and Crazy Taxi brings back the Dreamcast arcade energy that defined a certain kind of late-nineties Sega. Shinobi is actually the one that beat the rest out the door. Shinobi: Art of Vengeance shipped in 2025, handled by the Streets of Rage 4 team at Lizardcube, and it is the first of this whole slate to land. Crazy Taxi has a name and a target now too, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, going open-world and aiming at 2027. That leaves Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Jet Set Radio as the ones still cooking. Sega has been candid that the road has not been smooth. The larger umbrella project those games were tied to, known as Super Game, was reportedly cancelled, but the company reaffirmed through 2026 that the rest of these revivals are still coming.

Jet Set Radio is significant enough to stand on its own, and many of us that moved over to Xbox after the Dreamcast will still remember our pack-in copy of Jet Set Radio Future, bundled with Sega GT 2002. And the biggest news of this announcement is the original creators are returning for it. Check out our full preview on the new Jet Set Radio for more information.

No firm dates or platforms have been attached to any of these yet, which is fair given how early the reveals are. What I will say is this. Sega spent years treating its own back catalogue as a thing to license out in compilations rather than build on. Watching it commit, all at once, to actually making new versions of the games that made it matter is the most encouraging sign I have seen from the company in a long time. Now it has to ship them.