Indie developer Pacnsac Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new NES game which takes plenty of inspiration from Konami's Metal Gear. In fact, if we were being slightly unkind, we'd go as far as to suggest that it's little more than a rip-off and even uses near-identical sprites to Konami's game.
Rescue Force - Heroes Unchained is a top-down shooter which claims to offer tighter control and a "better all around experience" than Metal Gear. The modest Kickstarter goal of $500 has already been surpassed, with over $3,000 pledged so far.
Here's some PR:
In the high-stakes world of special operations, the powerful and covert Rescue Force unit is tasked with executing near-impossible missions with unmatched precision. In a desperate bid to save a captive comrades, the unit's esteemed commander handpicks a skilled soldier to penetrate four heavily fortified enemy bases. Engulfed in a lethal dance of evading enemy onslaughts, navigating treacherous terrains studded with tanks and other devilish traps, the soldier's unwavering determination will be the pivotal factor in successfully executing this thrilling rescue operation.
$20 is enough to secure you a digital version of the game, which can then be loaded onto a flash cart or played via emulation, while $60 will get you a physical version on a proper NES cartridge.
There are other tiers above that, but the most eye-opening option has to be the 'Digital Version Plus', which, for $40, gives you a digital copy of Rescue Force as well as a digital copy of Custer's Revenge - Reimagined, a remake of the infamous Atari 2600 title which was one of the earliest examples of an 'adult' video game.
As you can imagine, this inclusion hasn't gone down all that well with a lot of people, as Custer's Revenge features racist imagery and sexual violence against women.
Is this the kind of project you'd back on Kickstarter? Let us know with a comment below.
[source kickstarter.com]
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Ignore the brigade. Looks like a potentially cool little game, and with a pretty funny bonus for the Digital Version Plus too. As long as the end game is made well and is fun, you're good in my book. Achieving any level of meaningful success as a commercial game developer in this day and age ain't easy, so I wish you all the best. Have at it.
Y'know, sometimes ideas for a game should be kept to one's self, and off of Kickstarter.
This is one of those times.
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@LadyCharlie Who's this directed at, 0000jordan or RetroGames? Because I feel that way about 0000jordan's putrid input and agree whole-heartedly with RetroGames.
Why is this even a discussion?
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Looks like a Game i would never understand why someone likes it, but it is the same "Story* other Pawn Games and Movies also have.
Now i have to think about Sven Bomwollen, you run around as a Sheep trying to f*** as many other Sheepy as possible while avoiding the Shepard.
Or the Pipi Prince, you have to run around, drink beer, pee everywhere and beat up paparazzi.
These comments make me feel like people don’t realize how messed up Custers Revenge actually is. I’ve played it, and including it is a bold and stupid move.
The gameplay looks just okay, for $20 I expected more actually, there's a lot of $20 indie games on steam that better than this. Weirdly the custor revenge reimagined looks more interesting than the main game lol.
I'm more offended by the games Title and text which is about as inspired as AI. Maybe they're going for the "NES bootleg" feel.
I feel like a lot of people in this comments section don't know the full story? Not only is Pacnsacdave a racist, having made the RC Pro-Am and Goonies rom hacks "Adolf Hitler's Master Racing" and more inexcusably "**** N******" (look it up! I'm not kidding), but he's also a plagiarist, having stolen work from a private test build of the Ninja Gaiden rom hack collab "Deadpool" so he could shove in worse level designs that misunderstand the flow of the original game and sell it as his own work, mostly to fill shelf space in his Etsy store as a boutique repro for people with more money than sense, as he often does.
Considering his publicly documented loose sense of ethics I'm not at all surprised he's using rape as a preorder bonus.
I wonder what "Rescue Force: Hereos (sic) Unchained" is plagiarizing from? The art already looks AI generated, check out those fingers, makes the Color Dreams back catalogue look like the Louvre
Thank you TimeExtension for calling it like it is, and to those defending this guy, either you haven't heard, or more likely, you sympathize with his views considering the petty name-calling you're using infantilizes people who call out bigotry for what it is.
Contrary to your worldview, people generally pick their battles and don't call things out as racist unless there's a solid reason for it.
Don't listen to the reactionaries who want this website to just be an uncritical regurgitation of the past, the retro game community shouldn't trap itself in amber, it's a living document that blends technology of the past with the hindsight of the present and foresight for the future, as it ought to be.
We owe it to each other to approach sensitive topics with nuance and depth and accountability, lest we get hoodwinked by people using retro gaming to shoehorn their backwards "retvrn" logic on those who don't know any better.
The fact that someone is doing a remake of Cluster's Revenge and not say, Beat'em and Eat'em, says a lot about a person. I'm all for smut games (even if it squicks me) but @PZT 's comment about the developer's past works... Yuck.
Perhaps in order to gain publicity? Seems to work.
@Ristar24 Yeah, I'm thinking that's the real angle here.
Now, it could be he's a total monster pushing all his disgusting and genuinely held beliefs through the medium of games, which I would not support in the slightest. Or, he's just playing the system. In which case, I honestly don't care if he's being controversial as all hell.
I'm not genuinely interested in these very basic games anyway, so it's up to each person to choose for themselves on this one.
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These kinds of articles make it real easy to know who to ignore.
Let them cook. Free speech is still a thing for now.
@vidjagames You're witnessing the direct consequences of modern "everything is offensive" culture; because when everything is offensive, nothing is.
@Seanmyster6 I’m not sure the modern world is for me, but then again that’s why we go to this site isn’t it?
That said (not in response to you, just in general) I don’t think seeing something for the trash it is (and was) makes people weak, but we definitely need to get better at picking our battles so things like this don’t get dismissed as people “just being sensitive “ again
@Seanmyster6 That's actually a pretty good way of putting it. If you set the bar of "bad" low, then there's very little delineation past a certain threshold, and everything that offends someone just becomes "bad" regardless of how bad it really is.
@vidjagames It just makes me think of Uncle Roger "Big man like you afraid of tiny peanut. Why so weak?"
That cover art is AI generated, has typos, and also just looks horrible... So I'm not surprised that the game's sprites were ripped straight from Metal Gear. The varying art styles displayed in that trailer make me wonder if AI art was used in more than just the cover. Certainly not worth a $60 physical release in this state.
I'm also skeptical if the game itself will be any good. The enemies are clearly shooting blindly and can hardly follow the player. Maybe the game is still under development, but what's been shown so far is pretty lackluster.
Hey, I don't think my removed comment was particularly inappropriate given the content of this article and some people's pretty strong opinions expressed therein. It was more just being a little cheeky and poking fun at the fact some people have major issues with some things in some games but are often totally hypocritical when it comes to the endless acts of violence we see in the vast majority of video games, most of which are literally about shooting and killing things--and those things are often humans. I just think people should either stand by their virtue and call for it all to be removed or chill out and remember it's just silly mindless entertainment most of the time, even the decades-old controversial stuff. Literally, a few clumsy pixels on a screen in a game made to titillate and stir up a bit of heated debate really ain't worth getting all genuinely riled up over and going on some crusade. There's actual real and serious issues in the world, and the obvious silliness that is Custer's Revenge is not one of them.
@PZT Is it a shock value thing or genuine racism? Mike Matei has a similar history with Loco Bandito, but I don't think the dude is racist. Just ignorant and trying to get attention on the cheap. Of course that doesn't make it acceptable, but just wanted a better picture of whats going on, because while both actual racism (hatred of people based on race) and cheap shock value content based on race are terrible, there are different levels to it. The one where you hate people and actually believe they are less than you or even want them removed, is more evil than not caring about others and saying/creating things that cause chaos, uncomfort, and downright cringe.
@PZT lul, based
@RetroGames Yeah, the things they've removed vs the things they've taken down expose Time Extension's bias. I didn't post "unconstructive feedback," and I fully this to be taken down since they seem thin-skinned. Letdown.
@NickStarling yeah I'm pretty based
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