2013. The year of.. The Super Nintendo?

Courtesy of Nintendolife

That’s right kids, for the first time in more than 15 years, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System [Snes, for us snobby kids] will be receiving a new game.

Retro Game Developer/Publisher Super Fighter Team has announced that they will be finishing production on Nightmare Busters. Described as a ‘run and gun’ type shooter, Nightmare Busters was originally developed in 1995, but was cancelled by the original dev team. The ‘New and Improved’ SNES game also comes with a new and improved price. Citing production costs, the game will be available for $68 for US customers and $75 USD for everyone else. The game apparently comes with some lovely amenities.

One (1) copy of Nightmare Busters for the Super Nintendo; a game cartridge with full color label, which supports both PAL and NTSC based systems.
One (1) full color instruction manual.
One (1) full color cardstock box to house the game cartridge and instruction manual.

The shipping date has not been specified, and the developers are stressing that only fanatical devotees of the game should consider preordering. A promise of a website has been made, and it should be in production, but it begs the question: When developers like BioWare and Infinity Ward are spending hundreds of Millions of dollars to use top of the line tech, how is it that a small time Retro developer can justify asking nearly $10 above the list price for most current gen games?