This April Fools Day, SNK announced a (fake) 8-bit shooter called Star Radish. Famitsu reveals that not only has SNK decided to actually make the “Mikadosoft” title, but it’s being included in Doki Majo Plus.

The game comes into play as a competition with Renge Oda, the retrogaming potential witch who held forth about Psycho Soldier on her blog. Star Radish is a “Nanicon” game like one of the Psycho Soldier ports — Famitsu reveals “Nanicon” to be a contraction for “Number One Ninki (Popular) Computer”.

I must now decide whether my love of new Famicom-style games can carry me through hours of text boxes and uncomfortable minigames. Retro gaming is as much a part of otaku culture as gross moe stuff — the cross-pollination of the two had to happen sometime.

[Via Canned Dogs]

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