Don’t name it a comeback…

’90s developer Sunsoft, maybe greatest identified for its vary of 8-bit licensed adventures and 16-bit platformers, has introduced that will probably be holding a particular digital presentation subsequent week, whereby the corporate will announce a number of titles scheduled to launch over 2023 and the rest of 2022.

“Though we have now been quiet for a while, many issues have been taking place behind the scenes,” declares Sunsoft basic supervisor Yuichi Ochi in a press launch. “We’re very excited to have the ability to lastly share our imaginative and prescient for the rebirth of Sunsoft with followers outdated and new.”

Initially shaped in 1978 as a subsidiary of the legendary Solar Company, Sunsoft spent a lot of the Eighties within the digital gaming market, earlier than transitioning to video video games by way of a plethora of NES releases, together with Blaster Grasp, Fester’s Quest, Xenophobe, Batman, and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Within the early ’90s, Sunsoft started creating and publishing titles for the 16-bit market, making a slew of, frankly, exceedingly middling platformers, brawlers, and journey video games for the Sega Genesis and SNES. Maybe Sunsoft’s best-known character is the platforming star Aero the Acro-Bat.

Sunsoft would enter a interval of chapter in 1995, however has all the time remained within the trade, albeit in an extremely scaled-down capability. Simply final yr, the corporate requested followers which of its basic IPs they want to see obtain a remaster or remake, so it’s fairly potential that subsequent week’s presentation will see the corporate announce a number of comebacks for the studio’s portfolio of titles.

The Sunsoft digital occasion will happen on Thursday, August 18 at 13:00 PT / 16:00 ET / 21:00 BST and could be watched on the official Sunsoft YouTube channel. We are going to, after all, you should definitely deliver you the entire particulars proper right here on Destructoid.