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Grab these free retro Sega games for iPhone before it’s too late

If you’re a fan of retro Sega games – or just think you might be – you’ll want to download nine of them to your iPhone before they are discontinued …

CNET’s Zachary McAuliffe spotted the warning message when downloading a couple of them.

I downloaded Crazy Taxi and Streets of Rage, and after I started these games, I saw a screen that said support for the games will be discontinued soon. The screen also says you can play these games offline even after support ends. 

All nine are currently free to download from the App Store:

The message doesn’t get any more specific about when they will be withdrawn, but last time Sega discontinued mobile versions they were removed from the App Store, so don’t hang around.

With delicious irony, the program that saw the games brought to the iPhone in the first place was called Sega Forever … which was discontinued in 2023.

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