{"id":96568,"date":"2019-07-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/old-school_platformer_phantom_gear_hoping_for_a_sega_mega_drive_release"},"modified":"2019-07-12T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:00:00","slug":"old-school-platformer-phantom-gear-hoping-for-a-sega-mega-drive-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/12\/old-school-platformer-phantom-gear-hoping-for-a-sega-mega-drive-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-School Platformer Phantom Gear Hoping For A Sega Mega Drive Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9b0f72e1582c5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9b0f72e1582c5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymDNIAF6-C8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Retro indie publisher Mega Cat Studios and Bits Rule Games are hoping to launch a new, but very old-school platformer called <strong>Phantom Gear<\/strong> on the Sega Mega Drive. New games for old consoles sure are popular at the minute.<\/p>\n<p>The game is made up of a mix of elements from your favourite classic action platformers &#8211; you&#8217;ll find multiple weapons, permanent upgrades, boss fights, animated cutscenes, skill progression and more all present here. You&#8217;ll need to lock &#8216;n load to power your way through levels and use your abilities to search for collectables along the way.<\/p>\n<p>To make this possible, a Kickstarter campaign will be going live in just a few days&#8217; time on 16th July. The Kickstarter aims to cover the cost of the game&#8217;s development for the Mega Drive, manufacturing the cartridges, and creating the box. You can keep an eye out for that going live by checking out the game&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/games.megacatstudios.com\/PhantomGear\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zack Manko, &#8220;Lead Cat&#8221; at Mega Cat Studios, has shared the following in a press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re blast processing our way to something special here, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited for people to play Phantom Gear. Playing it is like the first time you put your hands on classics such as Ristar or Dynamite Heady.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Phantom\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9331f8dcf9c54\/phantom.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9331f8dcf9c54\/phantom.original.png\" alt=\"Phantom\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Phantom\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b61b54e8dea46\/phantom.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b61b54e8dea46\/phantom.original.png\" alt=\"Phantom\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Do you have an old Sega Mega Drive knocking about? Do you still pick up retro games to this day? Let us know your thoughts on this one in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymDNIAF6-C8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Retro indie publisher Mega Cat Studios and Bits Rule Games are hoping to launch a new, but very old-school platformer called Phantom Gear on the Sega Mega Drive. New games for old consoles sure are popular at the minute. The game is made up of a mix of elements from your favourite classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}