Dotemu wants to make games based on Terminator, Conan, and other nostalgic action franchises

There have been many Indiana Jones and Terminator games over the years, few of them being good. This makes them an ideal target for retro publisher Dotemu, who recently managed to relaunch franchises like Streets of Rage with modern sequels, and was acquired by Focus Home Interactive earlier today.

“I think it would be interesting to explore classic movies like, I don’t know, Indiana Jones, Terminator … and there weren’t usually that good,” Dotemu CEO told IGN, Cyrille Imbert. “And Conan, for example, I love Conan. I would love to make a Conan game.”

While Imbert only throws out hypothetical possibilities, his examples shed light on Dotemu’s thinking going forward. This speaks to the potential to tap into a rich vein of ’80s and’ 90s nostalgia, in effect giving Dotemu the opportunity to create the licensed game we dreamed of playing as kids.

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It’s worth noting that there was at least one good Indiana Jones game. That would be Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which was made at the height of LucasArts’ adventure game renaissance. Wolfenstein developer MachineGames is also in the process of making a new Indiana Jones game, so the franchise should at least be well covered.

As for Dotemu, his current focus is on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, a true successor to classic TMNT beat ’em ups, and Metal Slug Tactics, which will reframe SNK’s magnificent action shooter games into a series of tactics. He’s mainly focused on revitalizing retro franchises with a particular focus on pixel art, but Imbert isn’t ruling out the possibility of tackling the nostalgia for the 2000s, which has been on the rise for some time now. .

“We’ve covered a lot of games from the 80s and 90s, but there are games from the early 2000s with the first 3D games that have aged quite badly, but these are still great games, so I think there are has a lot of potential, and we’ve seen it with Shadow of the Colossus, Resident Evil, with Spyro or [Crash Bandicoot] or whatever, ”says Imbert. “I think that’s going to be another way to work on it, but it’s just another scale and we’ve never done that. So it will take a little while, but maybe we’ll get there too. “

Whatever happens, Dotemu has moved into a strong retro niche – one that could eventually be expanded in many different directions. In the meantime, stay tuned as we take a closer look at Metal Slug Tactics in an interview to be released later today.

Kat Bailey is Senior News Editor at IGN.