The Longest-Postponed Game <Kien> Finally Released on GBA After 22 Years

TapTechNews July 6th news, the game has surpassed the game , which is known as the king of postponement, and was finally released on GBA after 22 years since its announcement of starting production, becoming the game with the longest postponement time in game history.

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The game was officially announced in 2002, and its production team is from Italy, with a total of 5 people.

The chief game designer, Lucio Belsanti, and his team started to make the game in order to be the first Italian developer to release a game for GameBoyAdvance, which is a very difficult action platform game.

Belsanti combined the gameplay of , the fun of 90s fighting games, and the theme of Chinese mythology, and in 2004 the team finalized the releasable version.

However, later the team encountered financial problems. The production cost of a GameBoyAdvance game is as high as $15 per box, and the general view is that non-Nintendo new IPs will not sell well, so the subsequent .

Then this 5-person team continued their night careers. Belsanti is still a game developer, and he later founded an independent studio, AgeOfGames, that specializes in educational games.

And with the prevalence of retro style, Belsanti finally cooperated with a retro publisher, Incube8Games, and released the cartridge for GameBoyAdvance (GBA) after 22 years apart, priced at $60 (TapTechNews note: currently about 437 yuan).

The digital version of this game is priced at $10, but there is no cartridge, packaging box, physical instruction manual, and cute sticker set.