Limited Run Games and Konami are teaming up
Konami, which is digging into its again catalog in a significant manner in 2024, is reissuing a handful of traditional platformers from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras with the assistance of Limited Run Games. Two collections, one centered on Felix the Cat and one other on Rocket Knight, will arrive this 12 months on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch.
The Felix the Cat assortment will embody the eponymous NES and Game Boy video games launched by Hudson Soft in 1992 and 1993, respectively. Felix the Cat for NES was launched late in that console’s lifespan, and now instructions a comparatively excessive worth — round $300 for a whole copy, based on price-tracking web site Price Charting. The Game Boy model has gone for twice that quantity.
Felix’s side-scrolling platformers can be launched digitally by Konami and in bodily type by Limited Run Games. The two 8-bit period video games will run on Limited Run’s Carbon Engine, and have save states and “other quality-of-life fixes,” Konami stated in a information launch.
Konami and Limited Run can even launch the Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked assortment collectively, which can embody Rocket Knight Adventures (Sega Genesis), Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (Sega Genesis), and Sparkster (Super NES). The Re-Sparked assortment guarantees a brand new animated intro, rewind options, a boss rush mode, and a museum that includes never-before-seen content material, Konami stated. Similar to the Felix the Cat assortment, the Rocket Knight assortment can be launched for PS4, PS5, and Switch.
More Carbon Engine re-releases are deliberate, Konami stated. Another assortment can be introduced on Feb. 24.
Pre-orders for Limited Run Games’ bodily editions of Felix the Cat will begin on Feb. 9 and run via March 10. Pre-orders for Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked open on Jan. 19 and finish March 3. Here’s the whole lot included within the numerous bodily variations available, through Konami:
Felix the Cat assortment
Standard Edition (Switch, PS4 & PS5):
- Physical copy of Felix the Cat bundle that includes the 1992 NES title and 1993 Game Boy title of the identical title
Classic Edition (Switch, PS4 & PS5):
- Physical copy of the Felix the Cat bundle that includes the 1992 NES title and 1993 Game Boy title of the identical title
- Physical CD soundtrack that includes authentic music from the Felix the Cat titles
- Reversible poster
- Packaging impressed by the unique Felix the Cat NES launch field
Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked assortment
Standard Edition (Switch, PS4 & PS5):
- Physical copy of Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked, which incorporates three Rocket Knight titles in a single assortment
- Reversible cowl
- Mini-Comic
Classic Edition (Switch, PS4 & PS5):
- Physical copy of Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked, which incorporates three Rocket Knight titles in a single assortment
- Physical CD soundtrack that includes authentic music from Rocket Knight titles
- Reversible poster
- SteelBook
- Retro-inspired clamshell packaging with reversible cowl artwork
Classic Edition (Switch, PS4 & PS5):
- Physical copy of Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked, which incorporates three Rocket Knight titles in a single assortment
- Physical CD soundtrack that includes authentic music from Rocket Knight titles
- Reversible poster
- SteelBook
- Retro-inspired clamshell packaging with reversible cowl artwork
- Sparkster statuette
- Full-sized comedian
- Design doc assortment
- Mini cartridge show case
- Certificate of authenticity
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