Konami has revealed that Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked will be launching on Nintendo Switch and other consoles on 11th June 2024.
In just over a month's time, Konami's opossum knight will be making his grand return. Re-Sparked is a collection of all three of Sparkster's games — Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2, and Sparkster.
Digital pre-orders are available now on the Switch eShop (North America), and if you grab it now before 12th June, you'll get 15% off.
If you've never got the chance to play these beloved but oft-forgotten classics before, check out the collection's rundown, which comes straight from Konami:
Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked is an electrifying 3-game classic revival collection where players relive the nostalgic side scrolling game experience. Become the iconic Sparkster (the opossum knight) where the legendary character battles an army of robots, pigs, and takes on a variety of bosses. Use different maneuvers to fight your enemies with powerful attacks. Through heroic efforts and countless battles, Sparkster is on the quest to save the princess at all costs.
Players will be able to experience key features such as:
- 3 games within the franchise are available
- Rocket Knight Adventures
- SPARKSTER Rocket Knight Adventures 2
- SPARKSTER
- 2 new non-gameplay modes: 1. Museum & 2. Music Player
- Boss Rush, can jump right to the boss fight immediately
- Save game (progression) at any time
- Rewind feature, rewind game for short time (5 seconds max)
- Variety of display settings (different screen sizes to play the game in)
Limited Run Games are handling physical versions of the game, which is due to ship in July. However, at the time of writing this, all versions of the game have sold out. Fingers crossed it makes a return to their store!
Will you be picking up this collection in June? Blast down to the comments and let us know.
[source twitter.com]
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Those animated bits in the trailer looked so darn good and then I realised it's just a collection and they're not actually using that style in-game, it was bye-bye interest.
I once was driving on a back country highway at the break of dawn and saw a mommy possum crossing the road with a busload of joeys clinging to her back and flanks. Her fuzzy retinue being thoroughly and constantly jostled.
I waited longer than i would have liked for her and her squeaking luggage to cross the street.
I can’t help but think that a spanking suit of plate armor and a jetpack would have been the choicest of gifts for that encumbered matron.
I never played Rocket Knight Adventures back in the day, despite frequently seeing it at the rental shop. But, i did manage to dive into that first title some years ago, and it was a very good action platformer.
The sequels look pretty snazzy in the vid so this will be going on the wishlist.
Thanks for the news!
Fantastic, now give us a Goemon collection too, there should be at least 19 games on it:
Rocket Knight Adventures is an awesome game. Arguably in the running as the best 16-bit platformer.
That said, $30 for a few old SNES/Genesis ROMs is highway robbery.
Rocket Knight Adventures is maybe my favorite Genesis game, I still play my CIB cart on the Mega sg regularly. It's one of those perfect action games with a lot of variety and a fantastic soundtrack, and never gets old. The other games are great too just not quite at the same level.
That said, Konami could have put this on shelves by themselves. I was not giving a penny to LRG to fund their production and wait months for it to ship, and I won't bother if they restock. They can keep their garbage quality emulation in overpriced packaging. The originals will do me just fine.
@Ralizah These Limited Run Carbon Engine rom collections are insanely overpriced.
And after what's been going around about Limited Run releasing games on CD-Rs I'm losing a LOT of trust in them :/
I've bought a few of these Carbon Engine collections and they're atrocious.
These could have and should have been released on NSO.
That's a great three-game pack, but I can't see a good reason behind the 30 dollar price tag. It's a pity. The good thing is that Konami's collection are heavily discounted now and then. Not day one for me
@Serpenterror You're asking a lot. Based on other collections from Konami, I wouldn't expect that many games in the same collection.
The 4 main SFC games for sure. Probably the 2 main FC games. Maybe the first GB game. If we're lucky, the 2 main N64 games, but Konami collections focus mostly on 2D sprite-based games.
Retail in July. Of next year
This is great news. I loved Sparkster for the Super Nintendo, what a cool vibe and nice gameplay. Since I never played the rest of the games, I am very interested in the collection.
I remember my former university roommate talking about Rocket Knight Adventures but had no idea what he was talking about. Now, I have a chance to play this and see what all of the hype is about.
I've been wanting an original CIB Rocket Knight for Mega Drive for a long time, but it's a little above my top price.
I'll settle for this collection of all the classic entries, and I hope that it ends up surfacing on Amazon just like the Jurassic Park collection for anyone to get.
I love these games, and I did preorder the physical version from limited run… I just hope it actually runs well!
I will say the first level of the first rocket knight is one of the best first levels ever. Great music too.
Dammit Konami, WHERE’S THE PARODIUS SERIES?!
@Coffeemonstah Yeah!
I wanted to say the same thing about Chô Aniki, but these games were developed by Masaya, not KONAMI...
This game devoured countless hours of my childhood. I'm still kicking myself for the day I gave it (and my Sega Genesis) away. I look forward to the re-release.
Konami, if you can throw ****ing Rocket Knight a bone and do a collection, then for the love of God do a proper Silent Hill 1-3 collection.
@DjinnFighter They could divide all the games into different volume, maybe pack the older ones on volume 1 and the more modern ones in volume 2. Would be great if they translate a majority of those too but most are just action platformer so they'll play just fine.
Been many years since I played this series so I’m looking forward to jumping back in.
@Takoda
so funny! i was going to make the exact opposite comment! 😂
at first i thought this was a "remaster" with hi res sprites which would be a pass from me generally, but a compilation of the classics?! I'm in! 😃
(ps - in theory im down for some hi def 2d gaming, but in practice I generally have felt let down by it. not for me! ✌️)
I loved the original RKA and I liked Sparkster, but not for $30. I'm no pirate, but for games that old, they need to put some more effort in to keep people from just turning to emulation themselves. Remaster the graphics, something...
Convenient and affordable, but expect noticeable lag unless it's being handled by M2. Also, the Original RKA on Genesis is better than all 3 Sonic games combined.
The animation at the start was cool, but that art at the very end next to the title is atrocious. Looks like they grabbed it off Deviantart.
@-wc-
Very funny indeed, but hey, different strokes for different folks. Having given it a second look I’ll probably get it on sale because the games actually look decently fun.
@Dualmask
Remastering the graphics would most likely wind up being a disaster. Expect a rushed hack job by some indie developer.
I'll take the OG sprites thank ya very much.
Considering how pricey both versions of Sparkster are, $30 isn't that bad of of proposition if you want to play these legally. But I kind of get it, the Castlevania and Contra collections are cheaper and you get more games.
@Takoda
imo, they are good games!
i, too, will wait for a sale 😆
i hope you end up liking them! 🙂👍
@Ralizah some of the prices on these collections have gotten out of control, much like the cost of owning the actual cart or cd-rom. The price for the Valis games, which aren't even all that great, are exorbitant. Hard pass until there are very deep discounts.
@Serpenterror oh what I’d do even just for Goemon 64 (Mystical Ninja 64). 😫
It’s so damn good. We’ve got to get a Goemon collection at some point though, right?!
@Dualmask although I know what you mean, I think the inclusion of rewind and save states do go a long way.
I can play these on my Analogue Pocket but the Genesis core lacks save states and rewind so there goes that. Being able to play these officially and with those features is pretty good. I can already picture what the up-res’d graphics would look like or what style they’d have likely picked and it makes me want to puke.
(likely heavy mobile game-style, specifically that style that they used in the Fire Emblem mobile mobile game.) yuck.
I'm very concerned about the quality of the Carbon Engine emulator, having played the Jurassic Park and Boy and His Blob collections. It has a weird save system that only saves when you quit the game, has a relatively short rewind time, and doesn't even save your border settings.
A while ago I googled for lists of the best Sega Genesis games. I looked for long lists each at least 50 games long, that were ranked. I assigned points based on rank and added them all up. I was left with 16 lists, 396 unique games and 1,465 total entries.
Rocket Knight Adventures ended up the #14 best Genesis game.
IGN ranked Sparkster the #87 best SNES game.
@Ralizah $30 is the sucker's/loyalist's price. About half a year after launch, it'll go on sale for half off every couple of months like the Castlevania and Contra collections.
@Serpenterror 'Fantastic, now give us a Goemon collection too, there should be at least 19 games on it:'
I heartily endorse this idea. #GiveUsGoemon
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