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The Best Sunsoft Games Online Free
At MyEmulator, our quest is to include high-quality games from every developer in the world, including all these “softies.” Perhaps somewhat lesser known than some of its peers, Sunsoft is a division of Sun Corporation responsible for producing great video games for a very long time — the company emerged way back in 1978! As you can imagine, Sunsoft has a lot of hits under its belt. Here’s our proverbial sampler platter of legacy Sunsoft goodness!
Free Sunsoft Games, A Blast from Your Past
In the early 90s, video game adaptations of iconic superheroes were all the rage. Sunsoft contributed to this craze with a pair of excellent Sega Genesis entries in the Superman brand: the simply-titled 1992 sidescroller Superman and the 1994 sequel, The Death and Return of Superman. (Bit of a spoiler-y name, don’t you think?) While the first game is a relatively straightforward affair, the second is often regarded as one of the best Superman games around, primarily for its impressive roster of playable heroes: Superman, Superboy, Steel, Cyborg Superman, the Eradicator, and even Doomsday. Even the story’s pretty good in this one.
Not to commit themselves to one side of the infamous “Superman or Batman, who’s cooler?” aisle, Sunsoft also worked on both Batman and Batman: Revenge of the Joker. In 1989, multiple adaptations of Tim Burton’s first Batman movie were made, but none are more faithful to that film’s plot than Sunsoft’s. Revenge of the Joker, on the other hand, is a more original chapter in the legend of the Caped Crusader with greater emphasis on run-and-gun elements and some seriously impressive graphics for the time.
In the 2020s, the Blaster Master IP isn’t exactly well-known. But ask any NES gamer in 1988 to list their favorite mutant-fighting platformer and there’s a decent chance they’ll say it’s this one. There’s nothing quite like an afternoon well spent driving around a tank named SOPHIA and slaughtering radioactive beasties — a fact that prompted multiple attempted reboots of this cult classic through the decades, but none have reached the quality of the original.
MyEmulator’s Sunsoft coverage hardly stops there. In Mr. Gimmick, director Tomomi Sakai was charged with a difficult task: how to create an NES sidescroller in 1992, when the SNES was already on the market. With a small team of talented devs at his side, Mr. Sakai succeeded in pushing the aging NES to its limits, producing startlingly good visuals and even sounds.
Oliver Stone’s 1986 war film Platoon, the first in his trilogy of gritty movies based on the Vietnam War, is the sort of cerebral psychological suspense flick one might not expect a video game publisher to adapt into an action-packed NES game, but that didn’t deter Sunsoft from doing precisely that. One of the toughest challenges in their take on Platoon involves finding and disarming explosives in jungle settings. Not for the faint of heart.
Sometimes, licensed games don’t go the way developers intend. Take Super Spy Hunter, an enhanced SNES version of Sunsoft’s original Spy Hunter. With its high-tech gadgets and distinctly British protagonist, it’s easy to mistake this game for a James Bond tie-in; indeed, that was originally the plan. But MGM didn’t let the plan play out, which didn’t stop Super Spy Hunter from dominating United States arcades for a time. Good games are good games, with or without Mr. Bond at the helm. And if you think that’s not enough, we also host Journey to Silius, a game that feels more than a bit like something straight out of Terminator. Unsurprisingly, that was Sunsoft’s objective until the licensing rights were lost during the game’s development. Whoops!
Our commitment to Sunsoft coverage even extends to several smaller projects such as Trip World, Aero the Acrobat, and Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors. (Everybody wanted a slice of the Street Fighter pie back then!) Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions and Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage are solid Super Nintendo Entertainment System platformers with famous Looney Tunes fare.
Be on the lookout for even more old-school 2D gems from Sunsoft and many other fantastic developers as MyEmulator continues to expand our library of classics playable for free on your PC!