March 28^th, 2002 (12:00am) - Today Sega and Nintendo both released press releases concering the co-development of two F-Zero titles. One of the F-Zero titles is in development for the Nintendo GameCube, the other is in development for the Triforce arcade board. These two titles will interact with eachother through Memory Card 59 , the way in which these two titles will interact is unknown at this time.

The Sega team behind the development of this title is Amusement Vision. Amusement Vision is responsible for possibly the greatest racer ever, Daytona USA and they are perfectly suited to take on this task. These two titles are expected to be released in Q4 2002 in Japan.

Here’s the release from Nintendo Of Japan’s website, translated poorly through a PC program...:

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March 28th of 2002
Corporation Sega
The Nintendo Co. corporation

Sega and Nintendo Co., it develops for business and the home video unit game software jointly
It creates the game system which is linked amusement and home

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