Rewind Roundup #3: Happy Happy Joy Joy

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Rewind Roundup #3: Happy Happy Joy Joy

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Rewind Roundup #3: Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy — And Also Some Niche Obscurities

This week’s Rewind Roundup is a glorious chaos of nostalgia, remasters, and deep-cut re-releases—like digging through your uncle’s attic and finding both the lost Ren & Stimpy games and a vending machine full of arcade cabinets.

Limited Run’s Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy Collection bundles all the classic Ren & Stimpy handheld and console games into one gloriously gross Switch/PS5/PC package—complete with rewind, museum mode, and a soundtrack player. Meanwhile, Unreal Tournament 2004 has been resurrected like a dusty LAN party ghost, thanks to OldUnreal’s modern patches and Epic’s blessing. (Yes, it runs on Windows 11 now—and yes, you can still headshot someone in a hallway at 3 a.m.)

Retro archaeologists will salivate over D4’s EGGCONSOLE line bringing obscure PC-98 food-RPGs to Switch—and eventually Steam—while M2’s Kyukyoku Tiger-Helo collection finally lands in Europe, packing Toaplan arcade legends and rare console ports. And for the Legacy of Kain faithful? A Defiance remaster plus a playable chunk of the mythical cancelled sequel, Dead Sun. It’s like Christmas for gothic vampire nerds.

Elsewhere: Geppy-X gets HD love, Plump Pop is back (yes, the circus Breakout), and Taito’s Challenge the Unknown Rapids—a brutal 1980s rafting sim—finally hits modern consoles. Also, Panzer Dragoon II Zwei has a demo now—Lagi’s back, and he’s bringin’ Lagi.

What deep-cut release are you most excited about? Let us know on [Discord](link) or in the comments—we’re still arguing over whether Dezaemon counts as a “real” game.

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