Their last press release was from 2010 and even that wasn't a real press release, but an April Fools' joke: http://www.sunsoftgames.com/debrief.html.
I miss throwing the controller at the wall in rage and cursing the console and punching furniture in a fit to process my anger when playing the excellent games they made back in the day with that legendary hard difficulty like Journey to Silius, Blaster Master, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, etc.. I really, really miss those days when I still was just a stubborn child.
Why are they still around and what are they doing? In the past decade all they've worked on are Virtual Console releases and a WiiWare title. I know that Sunsoft in Japan has been hard at work on random mobile and pachinko games (http://www.sun-denshi.co.jp/soft/), but have they announced anything about leaving consoles for good?
After the NES they didn't really make any memorable games or anything that I liked. Everyone best remembers them from the NES era. Blaster Master kicked ass and I wonder to this day still how in the world did my NES controller survive all that handling and throwing when I died yet again in the same area in Blaster Master. I never got past Area 5 as a child. I revisited the game last year on the 3DS Virtual Console and finally beat it. And now I'm not happy about that realizing Sunsoft doesn't make anything now.
Wow, just thinking back to a game like Journey to Silius. Really getting emotional here. Sad to see a company that just never moved on past its shadow. Whatever happened to Sunsoft?
I miss throwing the controller at the wall in rage and cursing the console and punching furniture in a fit to process my anger when playing the excellent games they made back in the day with that legendary hard difficulty like Journey to Silius, Blaster Master, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, etc.. I really, really miss those days when I still was just a stubborn child.
Why are they still around and what are they doing? In the past decade all they've worked on are Virtual Console releases and a WiiWare title. I know that Sunsoft in Japan has been hard at work on random mobile and pachinko games (http://www.sun-denshi.co.jp/soft/), but have they announced anything about leaving consoles for good?
After the NES they didn't really make any memorable games or anything that I liked. Everyone best remembers them from the NES era. Blaster Master kicked ass and I wonder to this day still how in the world did my NES controller survive all that handling and throwing when I died yet again in the same area in Blaster Master. I never got past Area 5 as a child. I revisited the game last year on the 3DS Virtual Console and finally beat it. And now I'm not happy about that realizing Sunsoft doesn't make anything now.
Wow, just thinking back to a game like Journey to Silius. Really getting emotional here. Sad to see a company that just never moved on past its shadow. Whatever happened to Sunsoft?
