A RECENT gaming reveal shows that there are 13 classic childhood games coming back from the dead.
All of them are games that were either cancelled or are only available on limited platforms.
No one was expecting Gex to make a comeback.
Limited Run Games held a July showcase that explained how it was bringing all of these games back to life.
The oldest games announced were the Jurassic Park Classics Collection which will include Jurassic Park developed for the NES and Game Boy, and Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues, which was released for the SNES and Game Boy.
The next set of games is the Gex Trilogy, with the first game released in 1995, and the series ending in 1999.
Gex was launched as a mascot platformer to compete with the likes of Sonic and Crash Bandicoot.
While the gecko had a small group of die-hard fans, it didn’t take off like the blue blur did.
The Gex Trilogy will be sold in one package for all modern platforms, likely next year.
From the same era, platformer Tomba is also making a comeback for PlayStation, Switch and Steam.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 was originally released in 2004, and will now have a port for the Nintendo Switch.
There are also a number of Game Boy Advance games which will be seeing new releases.
A collection of Advance games from the Castlevania series including Castlevania, Aria of Sorrow, Harmony of Dissonance, and Circle of the Moon, will be released on the Switch.
More excitingly, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is being brought back from cancellation.
The game in the Shantae series of 2D platformers was originally being developed for the Game Boy Advance before it was cancelled.
It is now back in development and will be released by Limited Run Games.
Finally, there is one more recent game that will see a new port to the Switch.
El Shaddai was released for PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2011, and saw a PC port 10 years later.
However, the action game, while popular at the time, has not seen much development interest since.
No clear release dates were given for these childhood classics, but more than anything, people were shocked to hear they would be making a comeback.
Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.
