Game preservation can touch everything from the most beloved classics to absolute obscurities, and all that work is valuable – but I'm not sure I've ever had occasion to cover anything quite so obscure as the two games I'm about to tell you about. Retro-focused publisher Piko Interactive has just acquired the rights to a pair of games that barely constitute a footnote in the gaming history books, and I think that's beautiful.
"We have officially acquired the rights and preserved the unreleased games by Equilibrium named Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES)," according to a tweet from Piko (via Time Extension). It's unclear whether either of these games were anywhere near a finished, releasable state, but in a follow-up post, Piko suggests that "snes cart release" for Warrior of Rome 3 could be on the horizon.
