Prison City, The 'Most Early '90s Game Ever', Is Coming To The Switch

Oh, this looks good. Will keep an eye on this one.

Um...SOLD! Physical edition?

Whoa, they're behind Iron Meat too?! That was the one on my radar before this!

@riderkicker Simply publishing.

Saw this in System Gamer Magazine a few months ago, it looks absolutely fantastic and is highly rated.

@YANDMAN Yeah, meant the publisher.

From one man living in a 90’s bubble to another: Hells yeah

@WaveBoy Hey granddad, haven't you noticed that kids these days are wearing baggy jeans, just like in the late 90s and early 2000s? Skinny jeans are, like, sooooo 2012. Get with the times, man!

In all seriousness, I love pop culture from the era you're talking about too, especially the music.

I do enjoy a good retro throwback.

Uhh, yeah, I'm gonna need this.

Heck yeah. I'm excited for this one. Very wierd to finally see Justin's face In video again. He fell off the face of the earth with cinnemassacre the last year or two. Either way, Prison City is one I'll be grabbing.

This looks cool. I played most of these games growing up. Shatterhand and Powerblade were both really cool. There's a game that's sort of like this and super-cheesy and fun called "Oniken", though this game looks more refined and smoothed out. I'll keep this one on my radar.

@daveMcFlave Oniken is great, one of those tough but fair type of games. Odallus by the same the developer is also excellent, it's more of an old school Castlevania style game.

@OldManHermit

I really liked Oniken. It kinda reminded me of Contra meets Fist of The North Star. Very cool and hilarious, gory cutscenes. I got my tail kicked at first, but put in some practice and was able to beat it quite easily, much like a Contra game.

Odallus was very, very good, and Blazing Chrome is good too. I haven't tried Vengeful Guardian Moonrider, but will eventually get to it.

@daveMcFlave

Moonrider is awesome, Much like Oniken it has a similar cheesy 90s vibe.

I would also highly recommend Cyber Shadow if you haven't played it.

This looks super cool, especially as I'm a huge fan of Shatterhand, Power Blade, and Natsume's old games in general(Just got Ninja Saviors on Steam last week as it finally came to PC). They nailed the NES look and feel, and the whole presentation is wonderfully '90s, including the game's title Prison City. I was thrilled to see it had a demo, and I tried it out to see how it felt and to get some questions answered. First off, it has nice options including some visual filters, and toggles for screen shake and screen flash. All of those things are things I appreciate. The game looks and feels a lot like Power Blade 2, with Power Blade 1's stage design. There's a bit of Shatterhand thrown in. There's probably some Shadow of the Ninja in there as well, especially with enemy layouts and how they behave. The premise is basically Escape from New York/LA, except in Detroit. And there's some amusing dialogue in the demo. Some of the level design is cleverly deceptive, though everything was pretty fair once I had a chance to examine things. The demo is really good. This looks like a winner.

@OldManHermit

I'm looking forward to it. 100 percented Cyber Shadow on switch, hope to do it again on playstation and nab some trophies. It is fantastic. Razor sharp gameplay with a hard edge, but is fair and rewards mastery. I'm just taking a break from ninja games for a while. Moonrider is definitely next. Joymasher does not disappoint.

@WaveBoy I mean the other 2 gex games are retro 3D from the ps1 N64 era...

@WaveBoy I think you might like this: https://www.my90stv.com/

@WaveBoy I have not tried Tanuke Justice, I should remedy that.

Yeah, I thought the first half of The Messenger was great, when it's a more linear experience, but once it becomes a metroidvania in the latter half, it kinda loses me. Just let me run to the right and dispatch things with style dammit!

Anyone who shouts out Shatterhand has my attention. Looks interesting.