During an interview with GameSetWatch, Anthony De Sa Ferreira of Golgoth Studios talked about their plans to revive Data East's Toki as a digitally downloadable game. But during the conversation, talk of another Data East remake came up.

"[W]hen we were looking for Toki's licensor," he says, "one of the Japanese contacts told us they have other IP from Data East. After studying each license, we signed an agreement with the Japanese company G-mode at the beginning of the year to develop another title. It's also an old Data East license."

"I can't really say the name of the game right now. We only have the new design of the principal characters. To give a little hint about this license, it's a co-op platformer game. But I can't say more yet."

Putting the pieces together, Destructoid figures that the next Data East revival will likely be Joe & Mac, who some Super NES gamers may well remember from early in that system's heyday. Destructoid also points out that G-mode holds the license for that game, thus making it possible.

I wouldn't mind seeing that, though I'd also like to see the originals on Virtual Console-- they seemed to receive a lot of face time in magazines and TV shows as an early example of what the Super NES was capable of, but I never got to play them.

In fact, it is in that regard that I am a little wary of a modern revival; Joe and Mac are nearly iconic to me, in a way, thanks to their vivid, unique visuals. Would a modernization be able to uphold that kind of feel?

Well, thankfully, it appears that Golgoth has a certain respect for the visuals of such games, as this work-in-progress video for their Toki revival for Xbox LIVE Arcade seems to indicate:



"Our goal is to keep 2D gaming alive within this 3D world," says one member of the team, via Destructoid. "We try to bring our small contribution in the Games industry and propose high quality content for digital platforms. 2D refuses to die!"

Yeah, I think the cavemen are in good hands.