Sunsoft Is Back 2! As Game Company Schedules Second Livestream A Year Comeback

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Venerable video game developer Sunsoft has teased some new announcements after years of inactivity.

Key observers will remember that Sunsoft held a livestream in August 2022. At that time, they announced rereleases for their Famicom games Ufouria: The Saga, known as Hebereke in Japan, and Gimmick! Both are classic platformers, with the latter often cited as a hidden gem, for its limited Western release and its quality.

What they announced then were rereleases of both games for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows, planned for early 2023. We have yet to see those releases but that takes us to now.

As reported by Video Games Chronicle, a new scheduled livestream has come up on YouTube, fittingly named Sunsoft is Back 2. The stream is scheduled for April 19 at 11pm PT / April 20 at 2am ET / April 20 at 7am BST.

While the name is forgotten today, Sunsoft was at one point one of Japan’s premier arcade and home console video game developers. Sunsoft was particularly noteworthy for having picked up several lucrative licenses and making good games out of them, at a time when licensed games had a poor reputation.

Here’s a quick look at some of their more famous and noteworthy releases:

Kangaroo, 1982, arcade

Blaster Master, 1988, NES

Batman, 1989, NES

Gremlins 2: The New Batch, 1990, NES

Batman: Return of The Joker, 1991, NES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy

The Death and Return of Superman, 1994, SNES and Sega Genesis

Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors, 1995, Neo Geo

Phantom 2040, 1995, Sega Genesis and SNES

Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday, 1995, SNES

Waku Waku 7, 1996, Neo Geo

Final Fantasy Adventure, 1998, Game Boy

While Sunsoft became a sporadic game developer and publisher in later years, it didn’t suffer the fate of