Super A'Can
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Piko Interactive has announced it has acquired the rights to two more titles released for the Taiwanese console, the Super A'Can: Kingformation's Dragon Force - Light Saga (1996), and Horng Shen's Rebel (1996). This now means the company owns 7 of the 12 games officially released for the console.

The Super A'Can, understandably, isn't the most well-known console ever made, typically being familiar to only the most diehard of collectors.

Originally manufactured by Funtech and released in 1995, it is a 2D-based console built around the Motorola 68000, the same chip used in the Neo Geo and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, but was introduced at a time when powerful 3D-based systems such as the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn had already started to roll out to various regions across the globe.

Because of this and the console's high initial asking price, it proved to be a huge disaster for its creators, who ultimately discontinued the console and shut down just a few years later in 1998.

Today, the Super A'Can is extremely rare and, along with its games and accessories, fetches ridiculous amounts of money on online auction sites, but thanks to preservationists and the open-source emulator MAME, it is now possible to play the majority of the console's library on PC, without breaking the bank.

Over the last few years, however, it appears Piko Interactive has been quietly hoovering up the rights to its games, suggesting it may also have plans to release them commercially in the future.

Piko announced the acquisition of the role-playing game Dragon Force - Light Saga last month, on April 22nd, 2026, suggesting at the time that the move concluded their "efforts of acquiring all obtainable IP that was released for the Super A'Can." Yesterday (May 10th, 2026), however, the company took to Twitter/X again to announce that it had since acquired the rights to Rebel, another RPG released for the obscure console.

In the latest messages, it wrote, "What could we possibly be working on?", suggesting that a project is in the works, but it ruled out an Evercade cart, stating, "Evercade rejected that idea." We reached out to Piko via email, and it confirmed plans to remaster these titles, but wouldn't give us much more information than that, for now.

It also shared with us the full list of Super A'Can titles it now owns, which includes the following:

  • African Adventures
  • Speedy Dragon
  • Formosa Duel
  • Super Taiwanese Baseball League
  • Gambling Lord
  • Super Dragon Force
  • Rebel

We'll be keeping an eye open for any new information as it arrives, and will update this article once more info is available.

[source x.com]