Classic Platformer Flashback Heads to Switch July 31

Maximum Games is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the cassic SNES Action-Platformer Flashback with a new port for the Switch.

The game will be released for the hybrid console on July 31st, both via the eShop and in a standard and a limited retail collector’s edition. Featured above, you can view a new trailer for the game.

Here’s a rundown on the game:



To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Super Nintendo version of game, Microïds is releasing a Collector’s Edition which includes:

  • Physical Edition of the game
  • A retro cartridge-style metal case
  • An exclusive numbered metal card
  • A 24-page retro-inspired instruction booklet
  • Digital remastered soundtrack

In the Nintendo Switch version of Flashback, players will be able to choose between the original 1993 gaming experience and Modern mode, which contains:

  • Post-FX graphic filters that players can turn on or off on the fly
  • Completely remastered sound and music
  • A brand new “Rewind” function, variable according to the level of difficulty
  • Tutorials for those who need a boost!

In Flashback, players will awaken to the year 2142. After fleeing from a space ship, stripped of all memory, the young scientist Conrad B. Hart finds himself on Titan, a colonized moon of Saturn. With enemies and kidnappers snapping at his heels, Conrad must find a way back to Earth as he wards off the dangers that plague Titan – all while unravelling a fiendish extra-terrestrial plot that threatens the planet.

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