Limited Run Games today announced Gex Trilogy, a collection of games starring the titular gecko mascot that will come to modern platforms.
The announcement came during Limited Run’s “LRG3” presentation in which they gave news on games they plan to publish over the next year.
A splash screen at the end of the trailer showed logos for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series S and X, Nintendo Switch and Steam.
Three Gex games were made in the mid- to late ’90s by California-based Crystal Dynamics. Only the first one came to the Sega Saturn, hitting North American shelves just before Christmas 1995 before releasing in Japan and Europe the following spring. The Saturn’s Western support had dried up by the time the second Gex game came out in 1998.
There were some differences between the original version on 3DO and the ports on the Saturn, PC and PlayStation. Differences existed between the initial PS1 version of the sequel, Enter the Gecko, and its N64 port, Gex 64, too. That’s to say nothing of the GameBoy Color iterations of Enter the Gecko or the third game, Deep Cover Gecko. It remains to be seen exactly which versions Gex Trilogy will base its releases on.
Limited Run did say that their proprietary Carbon Engine will be used for Gex Trilogy. The company describes Carbon Engine as:
“a multi-platform development tool that helps different emulators interface with modern hardware. It uses emulation as a base, on top of which the Carbon Engine builds features like UI, rendering, audio, data management, controller inputs, and console-specific SDK features like trophies. It allows Limited Run to put out highly accurate, emulation-based ports of classic games for modern hardware.”
Considering Limited Run’s main focus is on releasing games physically, it’s likely that physical copies will be forthcoming, not to mention collector’s editions with additional merchandise.
Limited Run has published games of interest to Saturn fans before — they announced physical editions of PowerSlave Exhumed and D at last year’s LRG3 presentation, and a few months later, revealed a physical printing of Radiant Silvergun.
Surprisingly, today’s LRG3 presentation did not mention Batsugun Saturn Tribute Boosted after City Connection tagged Limited Run on Twitter in May in a tweet about Western physical releases.
This Gex Trilogy announcement comes on the heels of Shiro discussing the first game in a podcast about 2D platformers on the Saturn last month. Discussion on the game began at about the 48-minute mark — filled to the brim with Gexual innuendos, of course.
Danthrax is a contributor to the Shiro Media Group, writing stories for the website when Saturn news breaks. While he was a Sega Genesis kid in the ’90s, he didn’t get a Saturn until 2018. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the console’s library as well as the fan translation and homebrew scene. He contributed heavily to the Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS fan localizations, and has helped as an editor on several other Saturn and Dreamcast fan projects such as Cotton 2, Rainbow Cotton and Sakura Wars Columns 2.
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