8BitLegit has introduced that Lifeless Tomb, a brand new NES recreation based mostly on an outdated misplaced recreation, is quickly to be launched for Change, Xbox, and the precise NES.

Whereas Lifeless Tomb is a brand new NES recreation constructed from the bottom up, it’s really based mostly on a recreation referred to as Temporal Inc., which was a recreation for the Videoway, a really distinctive subscription-based content material supply system based mostly out of Quebec, Canada. Amongst its options was the power to play 8-bit video games, which might be loaded into the system’s RAM, which, clearly, emptied when you have been carried out.

As a result of nobody really owned the video games that they have been taking part in, and the service finally shut down, there are not any identified copies of Temporal Inc. remaining. Nevertheless, there was a recorded playthrough of all the recreation, so followers have been capable of reverse-engineer and recreate it, first as a flash recreation and now because the NES remake, Lifeless Tomb. If you’d like greater than a fast summation, Hardcore Gaming 101 has a improbable write-up that covers every part in additional element.

It’s a fairly cool story, and it appears to be like like a fairly cool recreation. It has you stranded in historical Egypt, attempting to flee from a pyramid. Its verb-based journey type harkens again to the glory days of the LucasArts SCUMM Engine. It’s been developed by homebrew veterans Collectorvision (which owns the Acclaim model).

Lifeless Tomb is coming to Change, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, and NES. It is going to be out there for preorder on all platforms on January 19, 2024. The trendy console model will likely be launched on January 26. The NES model is scheduled to ship in Q3 2024 however is restricted to 300 copies.