A new collection of Nintendo console games you may never have heard of is coming soon. Between remakes like the upcoming Ocarina of Time and re-releases via the Nintendo Switch Online virtual console, Nintendo has undertaken numerous efforts to preserve its history. Now, publisher Edia is taking up the mantle with a new compliation of SNES games, coming to Switch and Switch 2 later this year.
The collection centers on a publisher that's had little to no presence in the United States. But given the revival of their material in this new compilation, there may finally be hope for an official English translation of these underappreciated classics.
Super Yanoman Collection, slated for launch on Switch, PC, PS4, and PS5 on December 10, is a compilation of three SNES games originally released by Japanese publisher Yanoman (via Comicbook.com). It includes the 1992 turn-based RPG Song Master, the 1993 action RPG Trinea, and the 1994 strategy RPG Feda: The Emblem of Justice, none of which have ever been released outside of Japan.
While there's little English-language information on any of these games, some of them do have interesting mechanics that seem pretty pivotal to gaming history. The decidedly...
