'Broken Thunder' (stealthily Thunder Force 6 ) to be a Dre..

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"Back in 1999 Technosoft announced that they were working on Thunder
Force 6 for the Dreamcast. Fans of the series were over the moon in
anticipation for this oh so dearly wanted title. Unfortunately it
never saw the light of day. Technosoft were bought up by a pachinko
company like many other game developers in the early millennium. Even
Sega were bought by the pachinko / slot company, Sammy. Anyway,
needless to say that Technosoft's days as a games developer were
over. Truly a black day for the fans of Technosoft.

Years past with nothing ever surfacing on the Dreamcast Thunder Force
title. Then in 2001 came along a comedy Sega simulation for the
Dreamcast called Segagaga. The idea of this game was to be able to
run Sega in order to beat off the opposition. Tasks included putting
together good programming and R&D teams, merchandising and publicity
as well as others. All this was done in an extremely funny RPG
style. Anyway, once the game was completed you are able to access a
secret shooter called R720. Two modes are available with one being a
tribute to Technosoft's Thunder Force series. In fact you could say
it's a homage to the ill-fated Thunder Force 6. The game features
music by the well known Technosoft artist, Funky Surroundin' as well
as the Thunder Force 6 ship, Syrex.

Flash forward 6 years to 2007. A company known as Factory Noise & A.G
are producing a game called Broken Thunder. It's no secret that this
is a follow up to Thunder Force due to all the same fonts and phrases
being used as well as the Thunder Force 6 ship, Syrex. It's quite
possible that Factory Noise are in fact members from the old
Technosoft but as of yet I'm not too sure on this.

A year or so ago Factory Noise released a CD soundtrack called Broken
Thunder, that was said to be the Dreamcast's Thunder Force 6 sound
track. Now Factory Noise & A.G have released this sample disc of
their up-coming game. The disc contains a high resolution MPEG movie
of the new opening sequence, 20 high resolution GC jpg files, 3 MP3
audio tracks, 3 CDDA tracks (same as the MP3 tracks) and a text file.
The text file featured on the disc doesn't give much away in terms of
what system the game is heading for apart from it's being currently PC
programmed. It's quite possible that it may head to the Dreamcast
since that was the system it was originally intended for plus every
shooter released on the Dreamcast to date including Trigger Heart (Feb
2007) and Karasu (March 2007) have sold extremely well. A well known
and loved series such as Thunder Force could easily be the biggest
selling shooter on the Dreamcast to date as long as they got it
right."
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http://www.segagagadomain.com/welcome-news.htm

(get yourself to the website to see the CGI images and CGI movie)


more discussion here:
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=12969