THE TREASURE HUNTERS

How Strictly Limited Games’ search for lost treasure is only beginning

An aspect of Ultracore that might be interesting to retro fans is Strictly Limited Games, the publisher bringing it to market. “When we started Strictly Limited, we started with releasing digital-only games in physical forms,” says Dennis Mendel, one of the two cofounders. “Benedict Braitsch [the other cofounder] and I are both collectors, and so we both love having the physical copy on our shelves and being able to play it in ten years without the need to rely on the digital download store.”

There are more retro resurrections in the works, including a physical release of R-type Dimensions. “This was the start, and the money we get from there we will be investing in digging out lost treasures and bringing them back to the community. This is basically the next step. As we see with Hardcore/ultracore, there are good games still out there.”