
9, a spiritual successor to the original Mega Man games from the blue bomber’s creator, Keiji Inafune.įinally released three years after its initial announcement, does Mighty No. One of the most anticipated projects to come out of that initial wave of Kickstarter successes, raising nearly $4 million, is Mighty No.

Department of Retro fretting over a rapidly diminishing past for repackaged consumption.Ĭrowdfunding has hugely amplified this force in gaming, giving fans a direct voice in reviving underserviced genres like adventure games and PC RPGs. Despite the medium’s relative youth, a desire to play the games of our childhood has caused the industry to eat its own tail, It’s like the joke from an old The Onion gag about the U.S. Nostalgia is one of the most powerful economic forces in gaming.
