As outlined in the campaign, this platform would be a brand-new place for gamers to buy DRM-free copies of a selection of games across multiple platforms and would also offer a subscription for "extra discounts and benefits". It would also offer a bunch of physical games too — many of which it showed off in a recent video that was uploaded to its YouTube channel.
In this video, we only got a brief 5-10-second glimpse of each of these games, giving us just a tease of what we can expect. But, since then, the company has given us an extended look at least one of these titles in action — a brand-new Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the obscure '90s fighting game Tough Guy Fighting Spirits.
Tough Guy, in case you're unaware, was originally developed for DOS computers in 1995 by Panda Entertainment — the Taiwanese fighting game developer behind the Sango Fighter game series. It has been often described in the past as a Street Fighter II clone, and (as pointed out by PKDuckman in the comments below) featured a controversial character called Wacker, who was a Nazi officer that fired Swastika-shaped projectiles.
Many years after Panda Entertainment went out of business in 1997, a new developer Super Fighter Team — founded by a fan of the studio Brandon Cobb — acquired the rights in February 2009 (alongside other Panda Entertainment games). Super Fighter Team later released an updated Windows version of the game for free in 2019, which was then followed by a Dreamcast port in 2021 from the publisher PixelHeart.
Now, it appears the game is set to add another retro console to its list of platforms, with this new version reportedly featuring an all-new engine, as well as an original 16-bit OST.
According to the new video, the game will be exclusive to Bleem.net once it is launched and is one of the titles being offered to those who back the $58 "Physical Retro Game" tier as part of the ongoing Kickstarter campaign.
