In 1992 Electrobrain published Jim Power In The Lost Dimension on Super NES and Amiga computers. You played a macho tough dude, typical of the era, who had to travel to a planet full of mutants and shoot everything in a quest to rescue the President’s daughter. The game was mostly known for how punishingly hard it was — enemies were relentless, bullets were everywhere and Jim would perish in one hit.
No one has seen Jim since, but a team of retro coders are now working on resurrecting the game…and not just for the platforms it was released on. Their goal started out as an effort to port Jim Power to the NES (where super-hard shooters were at home)…but when Piko Interactive went to acquire the rights, they discovered an unreleased, completely finished Genesis version of the game existed.
Now Jim Power is about to be rereleased in five different ways by Piko: on NES, on SNES, on Genesis, on PC, and even on TurboGrafx-16 CD (this version was released only in Japan). You’ll be able to...
