Gunlord (aftermarket Dreamcast game) comes to 3DS and Wii U

[Lady Lilith]

http://segabits.com/blog/2013/09/03/gunlord-does-nintendo/

 

 

GunLord has formally been announced for 3DS. Hit the Jump fot the full press release.

Dear customers,

we are glad to announce that we are now a licensed Nintendo developer.

Our first project is porting Gunlord to the 3DS and Wii U platforms.

We decided for an Indiegogo campaign to make sure we reach as much people as possible. We don’t have a marketing agency so the help of community to spread the word will be vital.

So thanks in advance for any help

The campaign can be found here:

http://igg.me/at/gunlord

These new platforms will hopefully help us to gain higher budgets for our NEOGEO projects too, so we can reach SNK/Nazca quality

Best regards,

NG : DEV . TEAM

3 Years back when I interviewed Rene Hellwig, he expressed his desire to have their games running on Nintendo. It looks like it is finally happening, though it appears they are skipping Last Hope and Fast-Striker and going directly with their latest and hottest title. This is great news and unlike the Dreamcast version, which was reportedly an inferior port. The Nintendo port seems to be going through significant optimization.

The above screenshot illustrates the expected changes.

This is not NG:Dev.Team’s first licensed product, in 2011 they ported Fast-Striker to the iPhone which retailed for just a signal dollar. This move was not welcomed by the Dremacast-Scene as it was basically exponentially cheaper than the Dreamcast version, I did not check to see how the NeoGeo community felt about it but given they pay 10 times more than the Dreamcast version I can’t imagine they were to thrilled about the port. Consequently the iPhone version was taken down.

This time NG:Dev.Team seems to be addressing the concerns for the NeoGeo consumers, furthermore GunLord comes with a pretty steep price tag for a downloadable game on a Nintendo platform retailing for 12$. It would be great if Dreamcast owners could get GunLord 1.5 as well, preferrably in the same way we got Dux 1.5.

 

 

Never was too into shmups myself, shame, since that's what 99% of aftermarket Dreamcast games are.  Though I do enjoy a quick runthrough every once in a while.