In 2002, a group of friends in Italy started developing an action platformer with RPG elements for Nintendo. Game Boy Advance Handheld. 22 years later, it is now 2024, that Ending one of the longest delays in video game history, it’s finally coming to the GBA.
There have been many games over the decades that have had long development cycles and delayed releases. One of the most famous is Duke Nukem ForeverIt was first announced in 1997 but was never released. Until 2011Almost 15 years later. But that It took even longer to finally arrive.
According to reports tutelar And Patricia Hernandez (former EIC) My city), that It was developed in 2002 by a small group of friends in Italy. None of them had any experience in making games. However, over the next two years, the friends worked very hard to develop it. thatWe’ve done a lot with little rest. After several years of development, the game is complete and ready to be published. However, the high cost of shipping the game to the Game Boy Cart and that No publisher was willing to release the game because it might not be successful.
Eventually, only one person from the original development team remained: game designer Fabio Belsanti. He believed in the unreleased game, but he went on with his life, founded a new development company, and started making educational games for children and teenagers. But Belsanti never gave up hope through all of this. that. He decided to get back into it after noticing that retro games and consoles are becoming popular again. that And please give me one more chance.
“We believe we are at a stage similar to the revival of vinyl or cassettes in the music industry,” Belsanti said. tutelar“A return to an earlier, more primitive form of the medium, driven by the nostalgia of the generation that lived through it and the curiosity of the generation that used those technologies.”
Belsanti has teamed up with Incube8, a publisher focused on releasing and supporting new games for classic consoles like the GBA. Incube8 that And it finally came out in June, 22 years after the action platformer was developed.
“On a romantic level, the idea of releasing a game on its original console is just magical,” Belsanti said. that “It’s a dream come true to see this actually implemented on the platform it was designed for.”
that It’s out nowFor the Game Boy Advance, you can either buy a physical version of the game, or a digital version that you can play on an emulator.
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