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Limited Run Games is a video game publisher which specializes in releasing limited physical releases of games for multiple consoles. They also have a porting team used for certain releases on the Nintendo Switch. In 2022, they were purchased by the Embracer Group as a part of their Freemode division. They also partnered with 8-4 Ltd. to form SuperDeluxe Games, which brought their business model to Japan.
History[]
Limited Run Games was established in 2015 by Josh Fairhurst and Douglas Bogart. The duo were inspired by the success of Retro City Rampage with its physical release and wanted to preserve titles that would be lost with the closure of digital storefronts. They started with games for Playstation platforms and were able to forgo expensive content ratings by distributing the games from their own offices instead of a retailer outlets. They switched to a distribution center in 2016 with the release of Futuridium EP Deluxe.
In 2017, they started incorporated the Nintendo Switch as a platform . During their press conference at E3 2018, they announced that they were helping developers port their titles to Nintendo Switch, starting with Cosmic Star Heroine and Night Trap. In October 2018, Limited Run Games partnered with Best Buy to release select titles at retail.
During E3 2019, Limited Run Games announced a 3DS game called Atooi Collection, combining all the releases of Atooi Games on the 3DS onto one cartridge. A thing to note is that on their Twitter page, Limited Run said that if Atooi Collection does well their up for making a few more releases in the future.
In 2022, Limited Run Games announced their Carbon Engine, which enabled them to bring games from older platforms to new platforms such as the Nintendo Switch through specialized emulation. The first such games to use it were Shantae and River City Girls Zero. In July of that year, they formed a partnership with 8-4 Ltd. to localize retail releases through a joint venture called SuperDeluxe Games. In August 2022, the Embracer Group announced that it had agreed to acquire the company for the newest operative group, while maintaining the current leadership.
List of games[]
Self-published titles[]
These are titles directly developed and/or published by Limited Run Games as opposed to merely distributing the retail copies. Most of these are older titles remastered for modern hardware like the Nintendo Switch.
- Saturday Morning RPG
- Cosmic Star Heroine
- Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition
- Revenge of the Bird King
- Double Switch - 25th Anniversary Edition
- The House in Fata Morgana: Dreams of the Revenants Edition
- Save me Mr Tako: Definitive Edition
- Pictooi
- Corpse Killer - 25th Anniversary Edition
- Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection
- Deathwish Enforcers
- This Way Madness Lies
- Another Crusade
- Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection
- Felix the Cat
- Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked
Nintendo Switch[]
Switch Limited Run[]
Retro[]
These are proper cartridge reprints of titles for classic games for platforms such as the Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Nintendo 64.
See Also[]
- First Press Games
- Super Rare Games
- Strictly Limited Games
External links[]
- Limited Run Games at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia