{"id":194719,"date":"2025-06-18T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194719\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:27:12","slug":"sega-pulling-classic-ios-games-from-iphonefree-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194719\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega pulling classic iOS games from iPhone,free to download"},"content":{"rendered":"

The warning that Sega has now added to nine titles in the App Store<\/p>\n


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Sega is about to drop support for a series of nine Sega games for the iPhone<\/a>, with classics including “Crazy Taxi” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 4,” but for now they remain free to download and play. <\/p>\n

Back in 2017<\/a>, Sega began issuing free but ad-supported versions of some classic games<\/a> for iOS<\/a> under the banner of “Sega Forever.” Forever now seems to be about to end, though, as a series of titles have been made completely free \u2014 and have a warning about support coming to an end. <\/p>\n

Sega has not officially announced this beyond the in-game notices, and there is as yet no detail about when support will end. It’s not even clear whether the titles will remain on the App Store<\/a>, but the warning notice suggests they won’t. <\/p>\n

“Support for this game will be discontinued, but you can continue playing offline!” says the warning displayed when you start any of the games. <\/p>\n

As first spotted<\/a> by CNET, the games that are displaying the warning are these nine: <\/p>\n

Purchase now means that you should be able to download the title from the App Store even after it has been delisted. Titles on a device migrated with a device-to-device copy will remain even after the title has been totally purged from the store. <\/p>\n

Just two years after Sega began publishing the original ad-supported versions of these apps, Apple announced<\/a> its Apple Arcade<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In that 2019 announcement, Apple said that Sega would be one of the games developers on the service. Sega has continued<\/a> to contribute to Apple Arcade ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The warning that Sega has now added to nine titles in the App Store Sega is about to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[1191,3562,1662,3553,3554,3084,3543,867,3550,3556,3564,3555,3569,3547,3548,1667,1666,3545,3546,3561,3542,3544,3541,3549,3563,3565,3551,3552,3557,3558,3560,3559,507,547,3568,3359,3566,3567,542,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-adobe","9":"tag-app-store","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-apple-computer","12":"tag-apple-computer-inc","13":"tag-apple-inc","14":"tag-apple-tv","15":"tag-google","16":"tag-i-mac","17":"tag-ibook","18":"tag-ibook-store","19":"tag-imac","20":"tag-intel","21":"tag-ios-9","22":"tag-ios9","23":"tag-ipad","24":"tag-iphone","25":"tag-iphone-6","26":"tag-iphone-6s","27":"tag-ipod-classic","28":"tag-ipod-nano","29":"tag-ipod-shuffle","30":"tag-ipod-touch","31":"tag-itunes","32":"tag-itunes-store","33":"tag-mac-book","34":"tag-mac-os-x","35":"tag-mac-osx","36":"tag-mac-pro","37":"tag-macbook-pro","38":"tag-magic-mouse","39":"tag-magic-pad","40":"tag-microsoft","41":"tag-mobile","42":"tag-nokia","43":"tag-nvidia","44":"tag-research-in-motion","45":"tag-rim","46":"tag-samsung","47":"tag-technology","48":"tag-uk","49":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114705074993846265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}