Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast From the Past video game, which will be a side-scrolling action-RPG/platformer starring your favorite characters from the classic 1990’s anime.
There’s a small interview with voice actors Kappei Yamaguchi, Ai Orikasa, and Seiichiro Yamashita: https://www.gematsu.com/2025/02/2d-action-rpg-samurai-pizza-cats-blast-from-the-past-announced-for-all-major-platforms
Wait… what? A cursory search suggests no series revival or anything, just this game based on a single season animated show from 1991. I mean, I definitely watched it as a kid and 100% approve but still… what?!
Someone owning the IP saw money sitting on the table.
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They were recently featured in Jitsu Squad arcades: https://exa.ac/en/jitsu-squad-available-now/
So maybe they’re testing the waters for some kind of revival, or someone new got the rights to the IP?
Like somebody rummaged through a filing cabinet and went “We own the rights to what?”
Not that extreme a time gap, but there was a shitty PS2 game in 2007 supposedly based on the first Fievel movie (1986). It had basically nothing to do with the movie and played like a terrible Super Monkey Ball for some reason.
Someone saw a cheap IP floating around and thought they could sell slightly more copies through vague nostalgia. They’re probably right too, they’re not losing any sale from people who have no idea what the original cartoon was, and they might earn a few from people who recognize it and are curious.
Directly relevant Dan Olsen video.
Also, DDG / Bing has the dumbest fucking results for some words. If you include words like “game” then you get raw SEO garbage targeting keyboard-slapping five-year-olds.
