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J\u04e7rg Tittel is an fascinating man. Born in Belgium, he studied in New York, and has an indefinable mid-Atlantic accent with hints of American and German. He has written, directed, and produced video video games, stage performs, motion pictures, and graphic novels, engaged on every thing from Activision\u2019s Minority Report <\/em>licensed sport to a West Finish stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s The Solar Additionally Rises<\/em>. It\u2019s solely within the context of this eclectic resume that his newest challenge isn\u2019t stunning: a VR reboot of a forgotten futuristic tennis sport for the Sega Dreamcast.<\/p>\n Cosmic Smash<\/em>, launched in 2001, was initially a Sega arcade sport that mixes tennis \u2014 or, extra precisely, squash \u2014 with the classic arcade sport Breakout<\/em>. The participant controls a wireframe athlete, knocking out blocks on the far finish of a cuboid room by hitting a ball at them. A up to date of Tetsuya Mizuguchi\u2019s traditional Rez<\/em>, one other Sega manufacturing, Cosmic Smash<\/em> has an analogous vibe: cool graphic design, Tron<\/em>-style neon minimalism, and a utopian, futuristic imaginative and prescient of life contained in the machine. Like Rez<\/em>, its unhappy destiny was to solely make its approach onto the Dreamcast after Sega had discontinued the console and withdrawn from the {hardware} enterprise. In contrast to Rez<\/em>, it didn’t additionally get a PlayStation 2 model to reserve it from obscurity. Cosmic Smash<\/em> was a cool sport, however few folks have devoted a lot thought to it since.<\/p>\n Tittel has, although; this can be a man who, based on his IMDb bio, helped pay for his research by writing for the Official Dreamcast Journal. On founding his new enterprise RapidEyeMovers, a boutique sport manufacturing and publishing label, Tittel pestered Sega for the appropriate to license this near-forgotten sport. \u201cHalf\u201d of the folks he spoke to on the Japanese writer didn\u2019t even know what he was speaking about, he tells me. However he persevered, and ultimately received their settlement, earlier than signing the English VR specialist developer Wolf & Wooden to make his dream of resuscitating Cosmic Smash<\/em> come true.<\/p>\n