The heroes of the ’80s are making a comeback in video games. From Goldorak to RoboCop, passing through Inspector Gadget or Broforce, the gaming industry will always turn to memories to enrich its catalogues.
After the proliferation of pixel games that marked a certain taste for the style of vintage video games, it is the strong characters of popular culture who are becoming video game stars. To the delight of gamer parents who have seen them on TV and are happy to show them to their children.
pastiche or realism
The game broforce it had featured the heroes of 1980s and 1990s action movies by parodying them. Thus, we find in this combat platform game “Bros” on a mission such as Brolander (Highlander), Brodator (Predator), Rambro (Rambo), Indiana Brones (Indiana Jones) or even Bro Max (Mad Max). Proof of the success of the game launched in 2015, since this summer a free update is available. With broforce foreverThe game steps up a notch in the jubilant pixelated apocalypse in your chance to destroy everything to defeat your enemies as a commando of muscular heroes.
Present in pastiche version in broforceRoboCop also has his own video game on the way. RoboCop: Rogue City It is even an ambitious title about “50% human, 50% robot, 100% police” heroes. Nacon’s game takes place between the films. RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3but with an untold story.
Built on the powerful and realistic Unreal Engine 5, the title looks great and gives the hero Alex Murphy/RoboCop the features of actor Peter Weller (the underside, for that matter), who also provides the voice. We embody the police robot that we imagine watching the movies, ready to exterminate terrorists and other criminals to protect the city of Detroit.
The new bonanza of Microids TV
We at Microids have had a passion for folk heroes for a long time. The Smurfs, Le Marsupilami, Les Tuniques Bleues or even recently Tintin have given a comic tone to the games of the French publisher. Now it is the television characters of the 80s who have their favors.
And they don’t have to be French-speaking. It is enough for them to always have a high level of love from parents and a resonance that extends over decades. This is obviously the case with Goldorak, the famous giant Japanese robot. Grendizer – The feast of the wolves follows the first story arc of the animated series about knights of the new times who fight to defend humanity.
Through various environments, we see the famous robot push back waves of enemies with his lightning fist and aster axe. And the game will also pick up on theme songs from the series for fully immersive nostalgia.
Another ultra-well-known hero whose song from the series barely comes to mind as soon as I say his name, Inspector Gadge will put on his raincoat to cross over to a video game. Inspector Gadget – Crazy Times Party Metroville is once again at the center of a playable game from 1 to 4 where we find all the environments and characters known from the series (Sophie, Fino the dog, chef Gontier, MAD, etc.) for mini-games and an adventure from The Universe. from the animated series.
To complete Microid’s stellar trio, it will also be necessary to have the hero who came from nowhere, Cobra, the manga whose television adaptation made the children of Club Dorothée happy. And to celebrate his 40th birthday, the vigilante adventurer comes to lay down the law against Space Pirates in video games, with his armed left arm and his humor.
If Goldorak had never had his actual video game, Cobra was already a star in the late 80s on Amstrad, Atari, Amiga, or even SEGA CD thereafter. But we will still have to wait to see the blonde arrive with a cigarette in his mouth (or more). Production hasn’t started yet and the game doesn’t have a name yet, let alone a release date.
But at a time when the trend seems to seduce 1940s video games with Proust’s muffins, we should quickly see other heroes of the time in the starting blocks to transform their old television passage into console and PC pixels. And dream of a game Ulysses 31, Starsky and Hutch or even Magnum.
Source: BFM TV
