Don’t name it a comeback…
’90s developer Sunsoft, maybe greatest identified for its vary of 8-bit licensed adventures and 16-bit platformers, has introduced that it is going to be holding a particular digital presentation subsequent week, whereby the corporate will announce a number of titles scheduled to launch over 2023 and the rest of 2022.
“Although we have been quiet for some time, many things have been happening behind the scenes,” declares Sunsoft normal supervisor Yuichi Ochi in a press launch. “We are very excited to be able to finally share our vision for the rebirth of Sunsoft with fans old and new.”
Originally fashioned in 1978 as a subsidiary of the legendary Sun Corporation, Sunsoft spent a lot of the Nineteen Eighties within the digital gaming market, earlier than transitioning to video video games by way of a plethora of NES releases, together with Blaster Master, Fester’s Quest, Xenophobe, Batman, and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. In the early ’90s, Sunsoft started creating and publishing titles for the 16-bit market, making a slew of, frankly, exceedingly middling platformers, brawlers, and journey video games for the Sega Genesis and SNES. Perhaps Sunsoft’s best-known character is the platforming star Aero the Acro-Bat.
Sunsoft would enter a interval of chapter in 1995, however has at all times remained within the trade, albeit in an extremely scaled-down capability. Just final 12 months, the corporate requested followers which of its basic IPs they want to see obtain a remaster or remake, so it’s fairly potential that subsequent week’s presentation will see the corporate announce a number of comebacks for the studio’s portfolio of titles.
The Sunsoft digital occasion will happen on Thursday, August 18 at 13:00 PT / 16:00 ET / 21:00 BST and might be watched on the official Sunsoft YouTube channel. We will, after all, remember to carry you all the particulars proper right here on Destructoid.
Chris Moyse
Senior Editor – Chris has been taking part in video video games because the Nineteen Eighties. Former Saturday Night Slam Master. Graduated from Galaxy High with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse
