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A collection of retro games for PC and Switch that includes The Last Ninja and Ik+ has broken its minimum goal on Kickstarter.

The Last Ninja Collection, which is set to offer a compendium of fighting-based retro videogames from the 80s and 90s, has passed its £10,000 minimum Kickstarter goal within a matter of hours.

In development for Nintendo Switch and PC, the compilation brings together a number of hit titles from British publisher and developer System 3, including The Last Ninja and its sequels, and the one-on-one fighting games International Karate, Ik+ and Bangkok Knights.

The project is the work of Mark Cale, System 3’s founder who also co-designed The Last Ninja and its follow-ups; as Cale himself explains in the campaign video below, the collection will include the various ports of the games, as well as some unfinished, previously unseen titles as bonuses, including Last Ninja 4 and Ik++.

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