Square Enix Staff Unearth Rare Retro Gaming Treasures
Recently, members of the Square Enix team made an exciting discovery in an old storage container that had been shut for nearly two decades. Inside were pristine retro games dating back to 1995 and beyond.
According to Lee Singleton, Head of Studio at Square Enix External Studios, the treasure trove contains classic titles originally published by Domark Limited or its successor Eidos Interactive — both companies acquired by Square Enix in 2009. Among these titles are popular games like Klax, Hard Drivin’ and the James Bond tie-in, The Living Daylights. Platforms include Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, DOS, N-Gage, Nintendo Wii, and Amstrad CPC.
Singleton announced this rare find on LinkedIn, explaining that employees have been invited to take whatever they want, though Square Enix is also in discussion with the BGI/National Videogame Museum in Sheffield about possibly donating these items. John O’Shea, co-creator and CEO of the museum, described the collection as “interesting for all sorts of reasons”.
What do you think should be done with this find?
That’s amazing but some game companies should embrace and respect their history more. I spent many many hours doing laps on Hard Drivin’ as it’s one of the few games I had.
Would love for squenix to bring back Anachronox
Awesome. A sealed copy of Klax. I’m sure at least one guy is happy about that.
Back in the 90s we had a convenience store down the street that had a multi-game arcade machine with four games in it, and they’d swap out the games periodically for other games and whatnot. Klax was in there for quite a while so I have some fond memories of that game. “KLAX WAVE” is burned into my brain forever.
Send it to me. I’ll take care of it.
