If your life has been missing in comparatively obscure ’90s platformers, your 2024 is about to get a complete lot extra attention-grabbing. Konami unveiled that will probably be bringing a few collections of precisely that to Nintendo Switch later this 12 months. Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked and Felix the Cat Collection are the compilations in query, containing an assortment of SNES, NES, Game Boy, and SEGA Genesis-era video games. 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 Collection
- Felix the Cat (NES)
- Felix the Cat (Game Boy)
The collections are being produced in collaboration with Limited Run Games, using that firm’s Carbon Engine to convey the titles to Switch. There are pre-orders for bodily editions that can be opening up for every assortment through LRG which you’ll be able to try right here, however when you fancy digital variations these will even change into available 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 vitality blasts at his foes, whereas Felix the Cat is a well-liked cartoon character from the Twenties. The video games from the Felix assortment had been developed by Hudson Soft, which was absorbed by Konami in 2011. Of the 2 compilations, the Felix video games are arguably the toughest to return by of their unique type, with full bodily copies of the NES and Game Boy titles promoting for a whole lot of {dollars} apiece.
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Source: Konami Press Release
