Video streamed for first new recreation in collection in 35 years


Nintendo introduced on Wednesday that it’ll launch a brand new recreation within the Famicom Detective Membership (Famicom Tantei Membership) collection titled Emio – The Laughing Man: Famicom Detective Membership for Nintendo Tune in on August twenty ninth.

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Picture courtesy of Nintendo

The corporate streamed a video for the sport with commentary from the producer Yoshio Sakamotowho additionally designed the unique video games:


That is the primary new recreation within the collection in 35 years for the reason that launch of the unique video games on the Famicom.

Nintendo describes the story:

In Emio – The Laughing Man: Famicom Detective MembershipA school scholar is discovered murdered in a ugly method, his head coated in a paper bag with a creepy smiling face drawn on it. The disturbing visage bears a hanging resemblance to a recurring clue in a collection of unsolved murders from 18 years in the past, in addition to Emio (the Laughing Man), a killer from city legend who is alleged to provide his victims “a smile that may final perpetually.”

Nintendo launched remakes of each originals Famicom Detective Membership video games for Swap in Could 2021. Famicom Detective Membership: The Lacking Inheritor (Famicom Tantei Membership: Kieta Kōkeisha) And Famicom Detective Membership: The Lady Behind the Film (Famicom Tantei Membership Half II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo) launched individually.

The unique video games have been shipped in 1988 and 1989 for the Famicom Disk System add-on for Nintendo‘s Famicom console, and have been by no means launched exterior Japan. The remakes have been the primary English releases for the video games.

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