Clock Tower, Tomba And Other Lost Classics To Be Republished
One of the big announcements made by Limited Run Games this afternoon was the formation of a subsidiary devoted solely to remastering and reissuing older games for the new market. They’re calling this company “Carbon Engine” and they revealed some pretty big titles to start off with. The biggest is the translation and release of the SNES horror game Clock Tower, regarded as revolutionary and highly influential to its genre — yet until now, unreleased in its original form outside of Japan. Capcom declined to translate the Super Famicom version, and though remakes of the game have appeared in the US and elsewhere, the only way you could experience the original Clock Tower was a ROM with a translation patch made by a fan. In Clock Tower you play as a young girl trapped in a mansion and stalked by a figure wielding a giant pair of scizzors. The figure is slow, but so are you, and when you hear his footsteps, your choices are usually either running or hiding.