Yuzo Koshiro and Historical Corp have acknowledged through Twitter that their fashionable Genesis/Mega Drive recreation, Earthion is aiming for launch this summer season on the earliest. The composer has additionally introduced that plans to carry it to fashionable consoles are underway.

We’re creating Earthion, a MD/Gen shmup, with a goal launch for this summer season on the earliest. Delays could happen. Plans for porting to fashionable consoles are additionally underway. To make sure nobody misses the announcement, we’ll share additional information updates periodically as a consequence of excessive curiosity.

— Yuzo Koshiro (@yuzokoshiro) January 4, 2024

Earthion is a scrolling shoot-’em-up in growth for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Whereas that’s not completely distinctive in nowadays of homebrew growth, what makes Earthion particular is that it’s being helmed by Yuzo Koshiro, the legendary composer behind video games resembling Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi. Whereas he did compositions for SNES video games like Actraiser, Robotrek, and Tremendous Journey Island, he’s maybe greatest recognized for his Genesis contributions. His firm, Historical Corp, past collaborating with different builders, additionally created Past Oasis for the console.

The corporate has been tinkering with Earthion way back to 2022, with its huge reveal occurring at Tokyo Sport Present 2023. There, Historical demonstrated the sport’s great bosses and fancy scaling results.

Whereas Koshiro has moved on to composing for contemporary platforms with video games such because the Etrian Odyssey sequence, he hasn’t misplaced his appreciation for outdated {hardware}. For Historical’s current recreation, Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness, there’s a collection of DLC accessible that adjustments the soundtrack to variations organized for varied consoles. This contains not solely PC-88 and Mega Drive platforms however even much less widespread consoles such because the Wonderswan. It feels very becoming that his firm would finally return and create and new recreation for an outdated console.

Earthion is aiming for a Summer season 2024 launch (on the earliest) on Genesis/Mega Drive. Fashionable console variations are deliberate, however none have been confirmed. Bodily distribution within the West shall be dealt with by Restricted Run Video games.