Like a bolt from the blue, publisher Konami has revealed two intriguing retro collections in collaboration with Limited Run Games. Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked bundles together three games from the series, and Felix the Cat combines two difficult-to-come-by titles for the first time. Neither has a release date as yet.
Starting with Rocket Knight, Re-Sparked gathers together 1993's Rocket Knight Adventures and 1994's Rocket Knight Adventures 2. Sparkster, a spin-off for Super Nintendo also released in 1994, is included and features like Boss Rush and Museum modes round out the package. Preorders opened today and will remain so until 3rd March for those physically inclined, with all kinds of available collectable goodies.
The other collection, called Felix the Cat, combines two hard-to-find games, both called Felix the Cat. The first was released on NES in 1992, and a year later, it came to Game Boy. Both are getting quality-of-life features like save states, and the release will likely undercut the frankly ludicrous prices both go for these days. Preorders will open on 9th February and will run through 10th March.
What do you think of Konami reaching into the back catalogue for these retro goodies? Will you be partaking in these limited physical offerings? Blast off into the comments section below.
[source polygon.com]
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Played these games back in the day but had no idea Felix had a Game Boy game though. Still odd for a Felix the Cat collection game but I’ll still get it. Maybe a Tiny Toons collection might happen someday.
On as positive note, it's great that people will get the opportunity to play what I feel is a prefect game (the OG Rocket Knight Adventures).
However... It's Konami... So... Aye, brace yourselves for something daft.
Probably get Felix.
This is awesome. In for Felix the Cat!
Oh my god yessss. Rocket knight will be a day one for me absolutely loved Rocket knight adventures growing up never got to play the two Sparkster games though.
Never expected a remastered collection.
Probably get Felix the cat as well
I know some people have their suspicions around Konami. However the MGS Master Collection is super 👌 and if Rocket Knight is treated with a similar layer of respect, I will definitely pick it up.
While they say it's a remaster, it's in fact using Carbon Engine which means that it's just emulation with some nice quality of life stuff like rewind. Not saying there's anything wrong with it, it's just misleading marketing.
But then again, this is Limited Run Games, so maybe that's to be expected.
If Felix the Cat doesn’t have DualSense features like meowing, scratching surfaces and purring, I riot.
For some reason there is no PC version of Felix the Cat? Anyway, for some reason I have never played those games, time to check them out...
@shonenjump86 A Tiny Toons collection would be amazing! I absolutely adored the Game Boy game.
These types collection are exactly the kind of thing I wish Nintendo would do more often. A Mario Kart 1-7 collection would be incredible. A 2D Metroid or 2D Zelda collection would be even better.
Rocked Knight Adventure! I played this on Sega Mega-CD! No wait, this was still a regular cartridge, the Mega Cd tile was Wonderdog!
@themcnoisy
MGS1 emulation is abysmal.
@KoopaTheGamer Exactly my thoughts - aren't LR games some kind of scam? I remember watching some videos on YT about how awful they are to their customers; not to mention super shady.
Hope these get digital releases.
@__jamiie
I played the one on the Mega drive and really enjoyed it back then.
I’d love a collection of the illusion series and the psone Bomberman games
@Nei
Rocket knight adventures was on Mega drive (Genesis)
@__jamiie
I’d love them to re-release a lot of their classic games as collections instead of just releasing on the Switch Online GBA etc as I don’t pay for Switch online as I already pay for PS Plus, ESO plus, FFXIV, Xbox live and Xbox game Pass. I don’t wanna add something on top of those.
I would love to play the Golden sun games, Fire emblem path of Radiance (GameCube one) and Fire emblem radiant dawn.
Also Yugioh Falsebound Kingdom on Switch
@JB_Whiting
I wouldn’t know to be honest I haven’t bought any of their expensive physical games due to living in UK.
I have heard that it takes them forever to deliver their physical games though.
I’ll be buying Rocket knight day one though, Felix the cat at some point I never played those but super excited to play Rocket Knight adventures again though.
Still waiting on a release date for Tomba and Gex trilogy which they announced last year
@themcnoisy
It’s most likely more to do with the fact they fired Kojima.
MGS won’t ever be the same without him.
Also I think people have experienced some issues with the master collection which I think is why there has been some updates for the collection recently
Great news, are Konami actually starting to listen.
There are soo many games released over the years. I just with more collections were made available. Commodore 64. Zx spectrom. Master system and many more systems. It would help preserve this 1000s of games
I remember rocket knight adventure on sega genesis.classic games back then.and still worth playing.word up son
@KendoHead Konami has done a great job with their retro collections. MGS Master Collection is a rare misstep.
@Hundred_Hand_Slap
Yeah man, that Silent Hill Collection certainly was a great job.
@KendoHead seems to be a problem with non NES/SNES/GEN collections. Contra, Castlevania, Castlevania Advance, and Anniversary Collections are all really well done.
@Hundred_Hand_Slap
Contra was genuinely good, and I think the GBA ports were solid, too, to be fair, but have to disagree on the Castlevania collection - hell of a lot of slow down in there. Then again, hell of a lot of slowdown on the original versions as well, so I suppose you could argue it's authentic.
@KendoHead Ya not sure Konami is a dev that's gonna go in there and improve flicker and frame rate on 30+ year old games.
Whoa, good timing! I just started buying again for my Sega Genesis and I planned to buy a copy of Rocket Knight Adventures this weekend.
Ohh god... It looks like I'll beat Felix the Cat for 25th time in my life? I love that game. Simple, cute, just perfect platformer. 😀
Great news, hopefully many more remasters to come.
@SoulChimera I believe the PC version will have mog support.
@Andee Oh really? I’ll have to paw through them when it’s out.
Rocket Knight Adventures is a hard game I remember buying it for my Mega Drive and oh man was it a challenge no games saves back then. I didn't know they did RKA2 until I found a copy in a video shop when I was on holiday with my parents, I got to for £20 used and again another hard game and also if you play on it easy you didn't get the true ending.
Lol a gane that's what I think 30 years old maybe and it had something like that based on difficulty lol
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