Keep in mind Tengen? From 1987 to 1994, it was a subsidiary of Atari Video games targeted on creating unlicensed titles for the NES by trying to avoid Nintendo’s licensee restrictions. After acquiring a duplicate of the Nintendo lock-out program, Tengen was properly on its method to creating its personal NES cartridges. Nonetheless, Nintendo promptly sued Tengen which finally led to the corporate being consolidated into Time Warner (Atari Video games’ dad or mum firm on the time).
Now, in 2024, one sole developer by the title of Jeff Silvers has managed to accumulate the Tengen title and has used this to create a model new firm referred to as ‘Tengen Video games’. In response to the web site, Silvers had carried out analysis in 2022 and found that no person owned the Tengen title on the time, so merely started a prolonged technique of formally registering it with the USA Patent and Trademark Workplace. The registration is now presently within the ‘last phases’ of completion.
Fairly fittingly, Tengen Video games’ first title is an unlicensed NES sport referred to as Zed and Zee, an 8-bit arcade-style motion platformer that may be bought for the NES, Famicom, and Home windows. There isn’t any Swap launch for this one in the interim, thoughts, however the firm states that new titles for each retro and current-gen consoles are deliberate for the longer term.
How unusual, proper? It is definitely not the primary firm that involves thoughts on our wishlist of defunct revivals, but when the title wasn’t owned by anyone, then why not? It is a neat means of paying homage to a relatively distinctive interval in gaming historical past, so this is hoping Tengen truly sticks round this time.
