Feature: The Forgotten Satellaview Sequel To Famicom Detective Club

BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997.

When Nintendo announced back in 2019 that it was releasing a pair of remakes of the Famicom Detective Club games The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind — and better yet that they were being published internationally — it initially came as a bit of a shock.

The series, which had originally debuted on the Famicom Disk System back in 1988, had up until that point never received an official English localization, with only a few diehard fans outside of Japan having had some experience with the mystery titles thanks to the 2004 fan translation of the 1998 SNES remake of The Girl Who Stands Behind. As a result, they weren’t exactly a prime contender for undergoing the remake treatment, lacking the name recognition of, say, a Zelda, Mario, or Fire Emblem game.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997.

When Nintendo announced back in 2019 that it was releasing a pair of remakes of the Famicom Detective Club games The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind — and better yet that they were being published internationally — it initially came as a bit of a shock.

The series, which had originally debuted on the Famicom Disk System back in 1988, had up until that point never received an official English localization, with only a few diehard fans outside of Japan having had some experience with the mystery titles thanks to the 2004 fan translation of the 1998 SNES remake of The Girl Who Stands Behind. As a result, they weren’t exactly a prime contender for undergoing the remake treatment, lacking the name recognition of, say, a Zelda, Mario, or Fire Emblem game.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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