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New game for an old console: Zaku coming to the Atari Lynx photo

In case you've never heard of Super Fighter Team, it's a Califonia-based company that specializes in releasing "new" games on retro consoles. I have to put "new" in quotes because their two most recent releases, 2006's Beggar Prince and The Legend of Wukong two years later, were actually old games released in Taiwan in the 90's that Super Fighter Team localized. This, of course, doesn't make releasing new games on the Sega Genesis in 2008 any less badass.

Their latest offering is called Zaku, a horizontal shooter being developed by PenguiNet for (get this!) the Atari Lynx, an obscure (and largely unsuccessful) competitor to the Game Boy. Zaku is about an eponymous hero "who dons her rocket shoes and power gloves and sets off on a journey to retrieve stolen development tools being used to flood the market with bad games!" according to Game Developer. Eat your heart out, Bayonetta

The game looks gorgeous, probably because it's being made from the ground up with an official Lynx dev kit, which requires an Amiga computer. It's currently in development, but when Zaku is finished, it will ship on a hefty 4-megabit Lynx cartridge and a full-color manual. Other features include parallax scrolling, multiple difficulties, and "enemies and bosses that adapt to your playing style and fight back accordingly," all running at a silky smooth 60 fps. It's too bad that I don't know anybody who has a Lynx.

Check out some screenshots of Zaku in action here.

[Via GameSetWatch]


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Quistnix's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 02:37
Quistnix
The Lynx was a pretty awesome machine. A dedicated 3d chip, backlit color screen and multiplayer when the Gameboy was still singleplayer & monochrome.

I still know some people who own a Lynx II, they will be quite happy to hear this.
Gavin's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 02:50
Gavin
Yet it took six AA batteries that would be drained in no time, was way too huge and heavy, and the price was outrageous at the time. For a system that was designed to be portable it was like carrying around a battery eating brick in your pocket. It was like a Sega Nomad but with a shitty game library.
Rider Chop's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 03:25
Rider Chop
Looks a whole lot like Air Zonk
Dyson's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 04:30
Dyson
I own a Lynx.
Ceallach's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 04:35
Ceallach
This is no Zaku boy! No Zaku!
Stevil's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 04:42
Stevil
Hated the Lynx back in the day. All the games had to endure that fuzzy motion and a strong backlight that washed out the colours. My friend owned one and I just couldn't play on it for long. My other mate had a Supervision, claiming that it was destroy Gameboy at one point. Those were the days.
Kvb's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 05:10
Kvb
I have a Lynx!

Is the system region free? Or will a PAL version of the game be released as well?
Infinitys End's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 07:34
Infinitys End
Why do these people even try? Are they that bored? Do they already have that much money? They're catering to a market of collectors. That's ridiculous. All they can do is make cheap ripoffs of shitty Genesis RPGs, bad Street Fighter knockoffs (complete with puzzle fighter knockoff) and a shmup that NO ONE will ever play. Give me a friggin' break.
L0cky's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 07:57
L0cky
I also own a lynx , this is awsome news.
Game looks fun , lynx was a damn sweet handheld although it wasnt really portable.
Lynx is prob my favorite atari console and prob the best.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 07:59
TheStripe
The gameboy was multiplayer LONG before the lynx hit. You could play mp tetris day one.

@Infinity - there's definitely something strange about spending money on the lynx platform. Maybe they all have real jobs, too.
smokinlabbit's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 08:45
smokinlabbit
Maybe the dude did it for fun or use it as a gateway point to get into the main market of the game industry. How about that?
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 09:16
Char Aznable
Damn, ya beat me to it, Ceallach. Well played.
wanderingpixel's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 09:24
wanderingpixel
Cool. Mabye next time a new SNES game?
TVs Mr Neil's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 09:59
TVs Mr Neil
I'm with Gavin. I don't understand this at all. The game looks REALLY good, but it's coming out for a system that quite frankly sucks. Portable systems that suck batteries in single-digit hours will gain no respect from me, especially in this age where portable systems no longer require us to buy new batteries. When the Gameboy Advance SP came out with its own rechargeable internal battery, I declared the age of conventional batteries dead to video games, and I refuse to go back.

It's cool that we're getting new games for old systems, but this one really, REALLY needs to get ported to a better console. The Genesis wouldn't be a bad option.
madfigs's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 10:13
madfigs
Haha, I used to have a Lynx back when it came out - no idea why my parents got that instead of a Game Boy. But yeah, due to the previously mentioned battery problems I almost always played it on AC power, and eventually the power plug got worn out so it'd just turn off at random. I eventually traded it in to a used game store, probably got like $5 for it too :/
tirkaro's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 10:23
tirkaro
Aw man, at first I thought they made a game about the Gundam Zaku. (See avatar)
Stella Wong's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 13:38
Stella Wong
oh the Lynx, I still have one it still takes so many batteries but this looks really nice!
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 15:26
Naim Master
inb4Takeshi
Guncannon's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 17:16
Guncannon


This is no Zaku...wait a minute...
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2009 18:32
Artemus
I still have my brick, I mean, my Atari Lynx, in the original box...
I may have to check this out. It may be kinda, sorta cool to dust off the Lynx and play a "new" game on it.
I don't believe I turned on the thing since, maybe, around 1992! Yikes.
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