In case you’ve never heard ofSuper Fighter Team, it’s a Califonia-based company that specializes in releasing “new” games on retro consoles. I have to put “new” in quotes because their two most recent releases, 2006’sBeggar PrinceandThe Legend of Wukongtwo years later,were actually old games released in Taiwan in the 90’s that Super Fighter Team localized. This, of course, doesn’t make releasing new games on the Sega Genesis in 2008 any less badass.
Their latest offering is calledZaku, a horizontal shooter being developed byPenguiNetfor (get this!) the Atari Lynx, an obscure (and largely unsuccessful) competitor to the Game Boy.Zakuis about an eponymous hero “who dons her rocket shoes and power gloves and sets off on a journey to retrieve stolen development tools being used to flood the market with bad games!”according to Game Developer. Eat your heart out,Bayonetta.
The game looks gorgeous, probably because it’s being made from the ground up with an official Lynx dev kit, which requires an Amiga computer. It’s currently in development, but whenZakuis finished, it will ship on a hefty 4-megabit Lynx cartridge and a full-color manual. Other features include parallax scrolling, multiple difficulties, and “enemies and bosses that adapt to your playing style and fight back accordingly,” all running at a silky smooth 60 fps. It’s too bad that I don’t know anybody who has a Lynx.
[ViaGameSetWatch]
