A trio of classic SNES games from the 90s are making a comeback, and you can support the whole shebang on Kickstarter when the campaign goes live on June 10.
As revealed in a trailer at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, the Joe & Mac Retro Collection brings both the English and uncensored Japanese versions of Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja, Congo's Caper, and Joe & Mac: Lost in the Tropics back with a host of quality-of-life improvements. You've got added save states, a rewind feature to patch over mistakes, an optional CRT feature, and co-op for Joe & Mac 1 and 2.
If you back the project on Kickstarter, you can win numerous digital rewards, exclusive copies of the compilation, and various physical rewards.
If you need a refresher, the trio of Joe & Mac games are quirky platformers released on the Super Nintendo between 1991 and 1995. Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja is more of a 'run and gun-style' platformer that follows our protagonists through 12 levels that feature all sorts of prehistoric weaponry.
Congo's Caper, meanwhile, is a side-scrolling game focusing on a half-human, half-monkey lad called Congo who wants to rescue his girlfriend from a demon – not before going through 35 levels, however.
Finally, Joe & Mac: Lost in the Tropics is all the platforming fun as you know it, but with some light role-playing elements thrown in. You're still out to defeat cave dwellers and dinosaurs, but can court and wed Stone Age girlfriends in your downtime.
The Joe & Mac Retro Collection will launch digitally on Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam later this year.
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