Board 8 > What is the longest a game has waited for a sequel?

(+) Yeah! (+)

And is it this game?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2384730/Beyond_the_Ice_Palace_2/

Original is from 1988. Assuming this comes out next year (and I don't think it's ready for '24,) that's 37 years.

Just wait for the Pong sequel

My first thought was Link to the Past/Link Between Worlds, but that's just twenty-two years.

New Pokemon Snap was also 22 years.

Streets of Rage 3 and 4 had a 26 year gap in between

there's some konami game that had a 30+ year gap but I can't remember what the series was called

EDIT: I googled it

Getsu Fuma Den and Getsu Fuma Den: Undying Moon. 35 year gap

That's gotta be the record

there are 33 years between Ufouria 1 and 2.

Wasteland and Wasteland 2 were 26 years apart, though clearly not the longest anymore

video game sequel gaps always fascinate me. sometimes you know why they revived a franchise, like shenmue 3 was obviously a big push that was made for years. but sometimes it's like "oh shit why NOW?" like with Pokemon Snap 2, years after people stopped asking for it. They could have done it on the 3DS but they didn't, then it just randomly happens on the switch

Dizzy 8 released 28 years after Dizzy 7 is one I've learned about recently

Hollow Knight

Man this makes Duke Nuke 'Em Forever seem like a short wait time

MZero posted...

Hollow Knight

Ha. Yep, no game can beat *infinity*.

jcgamer107 posted...

Ha. Yep, no game can beat *infinity*.

Half-Life 2 over here proving that some infinities are bigger than others

ZenOfThunder posted...

like with Pokemon Snap 2, years after people stopped asking for it.

Who stopped?

How about the upcoming Yars' Revenge reboot?

Beyond Good & Evil is on 21 years!

Kenri posted...

Half-Life 2 over here proving that some infinities are bigger than others

Half-Life Alyx muddies the waters though.

GameBopAdv posted...

Dizzy 8 released 28 years after Dizzy 7 is one I've learned about recently

Really?

was going to guess bokosuka wars (1983-2016, so 33 years) but obviously this game would beat that. you could technically say Hebereke/Ufouria is up there as well as long as you put aside every spinoff (1991-2024, a little under 33 years)

And Penguin-kun wars also pretty high up there (1988-2017 from penguin wars 2 to the reboot, so 28 years)

actually arguably i suppose you could count the shooting minigame in 1-2-Switch as a "sequel" to Wild Gunman if you're generous enough, and that would effectively be... around 42 or 43 years (if counting from the 1974 arcade release)

paperwarior posted...

How about the upcoming Yars' Revenge reboot?

i just looked this one up and unfortunately it looks like it already got a sequel 19 years ago so it's out (would be competing with the claim i made directly above otherwise)

It's a remake rather than a sequel (although there are no direct sequels between them), but I offer Colossal Cave VR:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/colossal_cave_vr

Timing the 'release' of early text adventures is iffy, as they tend to have been long-term projects on university mainframes with numerous tweaked versions over several years, but its origin is generally given as 1976, making the 2023 version 47 years later.

i feel like it's fair to call anything that being converted from a text adventure into a vr game as an entirely new entry so yeah that is a very strong call

The 1977 game Combat had its unreleased prototype sequel released for the first time in the Atari 50 collection in 2022, 46 years later

HaRRicH posted...

My first thought was Link to the Past/Link Between Worlds, but that's just twenty-two years.

I wouldn't count that one anyway since Link to the Past got a more chronologically direct sequel 2 years after its release: Link's Awakening.

Paratroopa1 posted...

The 1977 game Combat had its unreleased prototype sequel released for the first time in the Atari 50 collection in 2022, 46 years later

BlackMageJawa posted...

Timing the 'release' of early text adventures is iffy, as they tend to have been long-term projects on university mainframes with numerous tweaked versions over several years, but its origin is generally given as 1976, making the 2023 version 47 years later.

both of these are blowing my fucking mind, holy shit

the Go Set a Watchman of gaming

Colossal Cave Adventure feels like the kind of game that would have had a sequel at some point along the way. I'm amazed it never did. And this version's being developed by Roberta Williams?

Combat Two sounds like the king of vaporware. I'm surprised with all the junk Atari produced in the mid-80s that they wouldn't follow through with the sequel to one of their most signature games. (For home console, I mean.)

So just when I thought 37 might take it, y'all go and drop two titles that are a decade longer. For a second, I thought Pong -> Qomp might surpass that at 49, but there are already official pong sequels. Quite a few, actually. They just aren't called "Pong 2."

What, then, is the oldest game to never receive a sequel? And do we try to preclude games with blatantly derivative titles from other companies, or is that too nebulous to define? (Spacewar! was cloned numerous times throughout the 70s, i.e., including an Atari game legit called Space War.)

This reminds me of a Sporcle quiz I saw:

https://www.sporcle.com/games/KirbyJotaro/videogames-with-long-sequel-gaps

azuarc posted...

What, then, is the oldest game to never receive a sequel?

Oscilloscope Tennis

azuarc posted...

And is it this game?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2384730/Beyond_the_Ice_Palace_2/

Original is from 1988. Assuming this comes out next year (and I don't think it's ready for '24,) that's 37 years.

That game's looking pretty good...

azuarc posted...

What, then, is the oldest game to never receive a sequel?

probably something like knucklebones

lol

UF8 posted...

i just looked this one up and unfortunately it looks like it already got a sequel 19 years ago so it's out (would be competing with the claim i made directly above otherwise)

It seems like it also got a prior XBLA reboot in the mold of Starfox or Panzer Dragoon, confusingly named Yar's Revenge, which this new one shares plot elements with. But that one flopped.

Of course, I do realize my Combat Two example is not exactly the best answer - the game was still created back in like 1980 or whatever and very limited releases of it did float around, this is just the first public release - but I just learned about it a couple days ago so it felt like it was worth bringing up

Paratroopa1 posted...

Of course, I do realize my Combat Two example is not exactly the best answer - the game was still created back in like 1980 or whatever and very limited releases of it did float around, this is just the first public release - but I just learned about it a couple days ago so it felt like it was worth bringing up

in a way that makes it also the best answer, since that truly means it is the longest a game has waited for a sequel lol