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If you've ever wanted to have your own SA-77 Silpheed fighter after seeing the prototype craft on its Sega CD game cover -- or on its much more awesome Mega CD box -- Japanese kit maker PLUM (Pretty Lovely Unique Mechanism) will soon sell the detailed model you waited so many years for.

This 1/100th scale ship looks like the first release in PLUM's new SFG (Shooting Fighter Game) series. The company intends to release it in Japan this May at a suggested price of ¥5,460 (around $60); hopefully the SA-77 will also appear on import hobby shops! You can see several shots of the elegant Silpheed ship after the break.

Homebrew development team Aetherbyte Studios has nearly completed its first PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-CD game Insanity, a remake of Stern Electronics 1980 arcade release Berzerk (which saw console ports for the Atari 2600, 5200, and Vectrex). Aetherbyte plans to have it professionally pressed as a Super CD with case inserts and a manual.

Insanity's premise doesn't venture far from its source material: "You are trapped in a robot infested labyrinth on a distant planet. Your only hope of escape is to traverse room after room in search of the way out!"

You can watch newly released test footage of the game below, but note that it lacks sound effects and shows a bug that the developer is currently working to squash.

[Via PC Engine Fan]