In case your life has been missing in comparatively obscure ’90s platformers, your 2024 is about to get an entire lot extra attention-grabbing. Konami unveiled that it is going to be bringing a few collections of precisely that to Nintendo Swap later this yr. Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked and Felix the Cat Assortment are the compilations in query, containing an assortment of SNES, NES, Recreation Boy, and SEGA Genesis-era video games. Right here’s the rundown of what’s in every:
- Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked
- Rocket Knight Adventures (SEGA Genesis)
- Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (SEGA Genesis)
- Sparkster (SNES)
- Felix the Cat Assortment
- Felix the Cat (NES)
- Felix the Cat (Recreation Boy)
The collections are being produced in collaboration with Restricted Run Video games, using that firm’s Carbon Engine to convey the titles to Swap. There are pre-orders for bodily editions that might be opening up for every assortment through LRG which you’ll be able to try right here, however when you fancy digital variations these may also turn out to be out there sooner or later in 2024 (no precise launch dates have been given but).
For the uninitiated, Rocket Knight was developed by Konami and revolves across the exploits of Sparkster, a opossum with a rocket pack and a sword that may shoot power blasts at his foes, whereas Felix the Cat is a well-liked cartoon character from the Nineteen Twenties. The video games from the Felix assortment had been developed by Hudson Smooth, which was absorbed by Konami in 2011. Of the 2 compilations, the Felix video games are arguably the toughest to come back by of their authentic type, with full bodily copies of the NES and Recreation Boy titles promoting for a whole lot of {dollars} apiece.
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