Lik Sang and OlderGames join forces to publish new commercial games on Classics consoles (including high profile franchise Super Fighter)

Lik Sang and OlderGames join forces to publish new commercial games on Classics consoles (including high profile franchise Super Fighter)

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Hong Kong (PRWEB) July 7th 2003 - Lik-Sang.com, leading alternative video games online retailer, and OlderGames, world leader in publishing and development of new games for orphaned consoles and entertainment systems, today reached an agreement on exclusive distribution and co-publishing of games for the so-called 'classics' consoles. Both sides have expressed interest in helping developing the expanding retrogaming trend by throwing in their own skills and energy. With recently acquired Super Fighter key license, OlderGames needed a solid distribution partner to develop the market upcoming titles based on the franchise. Lik-Sang.com will ensure the project the exposure it deserves as well as it will offer the right structure to follow with fast and reliable servicing of the orders and parcels. OlderGames focuses on the core of their work: develop high quality games for the Retrogamers.

"Lik Sang stepping in means principally not to have worries anymore about communication and distribution. This will put less strain on our company which would rather focus its efforts on development and publishing aspects of the game, bringing more titles to feed the hungry fans. This partnership gives OlderGames a strong share in a worldwide market of video game consumers consisting of millions of potential new customers", says R.W. Bivins, CEO and Creative Director of OlderGames Pascal Clarysse, Marketing Manager of Lik-Sang.com, commented on the subject: "With the opening of our Otaku Corner we showed our intentions to continue and even increase support towards all gaming communities playing on each and every game platform, no matter of the release date of it. The start of Lik Sang Publishing and the partnership with OlderGames are the next steps taken towards our ideal: Let the past consoles catch up and have a future in the video games industry".

So far, OlderGames' catalogue is including five releases on CD-i and Citizen X on the Mega CD/Sega CD. The remaining stocks of Citizen X have been acquired by Lik-Sang.com and OlderGames has run a special new production of all five CD-i Titles for the occasion.

Recently, OlderGames acquired the Super Fighter License from C&E Inc. (Taiwan) in preparation for several high quality ports on various home entertainment systems. SuperFighter has just celebrated its ten years anniversary and several freeware projects have popped up around this title for a couple of years. OlderGames has reached an agreement with C&E Inc. regarding commercial exclusivity, and the homebrew scene is may continue the freeware developments on their side.

OlderGames is currently coordinating the adaptation of Super Fighter along with professional studios and talented coders around the world, and the distribution partnerships come as the last brick in the wall to prepare for an ambitious launch on several platforms during the next six to twelve months.

The partnership does not only involve Super Fighter: several future projects are ongoing and will be announced in due time, including for platforms like Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Mega CD, Dreamcast and more! All future releases will be distributed under the label Lik Sang Publishing.

Already scheduled to release this summer, Weird World on Commodore 64 and KII Konnekted on PC CD-ROM will be available for preorder very soon.

On the long-term, Lik Sang and OlderGames hope to create the necessary synergy effect for the different people working on classics games development to see their projects come to reality.

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Contacts

Lik-Sang O/B Pacific Game Technology (Holding) Ltd

Pascal Clarysse - pascal@lik-sang.com
http://www.lik-sang.com

OlderGames

RW Bivins - rw@oldergames.com
http://www.oldergames.com