Consoles that see super market success are inclined to have surprisingly lengthy lives, merely owing to their massive set up base. The Wii is one in all these methods: It famously stored on seeing new releases all over Simply Dance 2020. However there are some builders on the market who simply actually like a selected platform, eagerly supporting their favourite retro consoles via homebrew initiatives. At retro gaming conventions, you will see numerous these sorts of video games for the Atari 2600, NES, Genesis/Mega Drive, even cult-favorite consoles just like the Neo Geo. However, as a lot as we’re detest to confess it, the Wii is taken into account “retro” now–and Brazilian developer Nai Adventure is bringing their throwback shoot-’em-up Steel Canary to the platform on precise discs.
Steel Canary is a traditional, arcade-style scrolling shooter that includes pixel-art visuals. The recreation was initially developed as a homebrew title for Dreamcast with a PC port, however in keeping with the developer within the description of the YouTube reveal, “the Wii model was ported in simply six hours.” What makes Steel Canary much more uncommon is that it is getting a bodily launch on each the Wii and the Dreamcast.
As of proper now, the sport remains to be beneath improvement however is sort of full, with “only some tweaks left and the implementation of a video participant, which needs to be added quickly.” The accomplished recreation will formally debut at Retrocon 2026 in Oaks, Pennsylvania this September. The bodily discs will probably be manufactured by Brazilian writer Old Game for worldwide sale. In case your Wii (or Dreamcast) collector’s shelf has an empty gap that wants filling, you will have a brand-new recreation to fill it with–and you will be supporting an indie developer within the course of.