{"id":3815,"date":"2025-04-06T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/3815\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:06:11","slug":"an-obscure-taiwanese-fighting-game-for-dos-is-being-reborn-on-sega-mega-drive-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/3815\/","title":{"rendered":"An Obscure Taiwanese Fighting Game For DOS Is Being Reborn On Sega Mega Drive \/ Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tough<\/a> Image: Piko Interactive\/Bleem<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Piko Interactive \u2014 the current rights holders to the Bleem license \u2014 launched a Kickstarter for Bleem.Net<\/a>, a new online marketplace that was aiming to become “the Ultimate Retro Platform”.<\/p>\n

As outlined in the campaign, this platform would be a brand-new place for gamers to buy DRM-free copies of a selection of games across multiple platforms and would also offer a subscription for “extra discounts and benefits”. It would also offer a bunch of physical games too \u2014 many of which it showed off in a recent video that was uploaded to its YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this video, we only got a brief 5-10-second glimpse of each of these games, giving us just a tease of what we can expect. But, since then, the company has given us an extended look at least one of these titles in action \u2014 a brand-new Sega Mega Drive \/ Genesis port of the obscure ’90s fighting game Tough Guy Fighting Spirits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Tough Guy, in case you’re unaware, was originally developed for DOS computers in 1995 by Panda Entertainment \u2014 the Taiwanese fighting game developer behind the Sango Fighter<\/strong> game series. It has been often described in the past as a Street Fighter II<\/strong> clone, and (as pointed out by PKDuckman in the comments below) featured a controversial character called Wacker, who was a Nazi officer that fired Swastika-shaped projectiles.<\/p>\n

Many years after Panda Entertainment went out of business in 1997<\/a>, a new developer Super Fighter Team \u2014 founded by a fan of the studio Brandon Cobb \u2014 acquired the rights in February 2009<\/a> (alongside other Panda Entertainment games). Super Fighter Team later released an updated Windows version of the game for free in 2019<\/a>, which was then followed by a Dreamcast port in 2021 from the publisher PixelHeart.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears the game is set to add another retro console to its list of platforms, with this new version reportedly featuring an all-new engine, as well as an original 16-bit OST.<\/p>\n

According to the new video, the game will be exclusive to Bleem.net once it is launched and is one of the titles being offered to those who back the $58 “Physical Retro Game” tier as part of the ongoing Kickstarter campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hailing from Manchester, Jack has a particular fondness for point-and-click adventure games. In the past, he\u2019s written about lost games from studios like Sony Manchester, Genepool Software, and DMA Design, and has made a habit of debunking video game rumours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Piko Interactive\/Bleem Earlier this month, Piko Interactive \u2014 the current rights holders to the Bleem license \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2246,2247,12,53,240,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-3815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bleem","9":"tag-mega-drive","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-time-extension","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114291407781646191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}