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Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« on: May 16, 2020, 07:24:46 PM »
Never heard of Piko before and just stumbled across this. Not a new game, but still pretty cool that Jim Power is getting a LICENSED release on the TurboGrafx after all of these years!
https://pikointeractive.com/
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2020, 01:29:36 AM »
Interesting.  I have the PCE game, but I suppose I'll pony up for this too, because collectard.  It's very colorful (like unicorn puke) but it's not a great game to play.

Is it really licensed by... I guess by Konami, or is it just licensed from Loricel or whoever the hell owns Jim Power nowadays?
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2020, 03:02:11 AM »
Fully licensed from the creator's estate. Some details in the kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/retrogames/jim-power-a-nes-snes-genesis-turbografx-and-cd32-game

Really cool how many odd-ball consoles Piko supports: Turbo, Amiga and... an Impossamole port on the Jaguar? Damn.
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2020, 11:09:22 PM »
The game has apparently been sent for pressing and should ship before the end of the year.
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2020, 05:49:16 AM »
Is this the same as the original PCE CD version that was sold or does it have changes made to the game?

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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2020, 09:32:23 AM »
I don't think anything has changed in the TG-16 version.  Maybe they updated the copyright date and added their names, but the game itself is likely unchanged.
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2021, 02:56:53 AM »
There's a update concerning delays, but it's only for backers to see, and they removed the page on their site for preordering.  Hmmmm.....
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2021, 12:29:10 AM »
They've sent out surveys on Kickstarter for backers to update their details, but it's still not available to non-backers.
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Re: Piko Interactive's Jim Power preorder
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2021, 09:21:02 PM »
Nevermind this, I'm still waiting on the iam8bit re-releases of Aladdin and The Lion King.