{"id":31011,"date":"2026-02-18T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=31011"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:10:52","slug":"annalog-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/guide\/annalog-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New NES Adventure Annalog Announced  By The Retro Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We love new games for old consoles, and <strong>Annalog<\/strong>, a new <strong>NES<\/strong> Metroidvania from <a href=\"https:\/\/theretroroomgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Retro Room<\/strong><\/a>, is exactly the kind of game we enjoy reporting on. Although we don&#8217;t know much beyond a teaser trailer shown on the retro publisher\u2019s <strong>X<\/strong>\/<strong>Twitter<\/strong> account, we do know a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/elland\/annalog-nes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kickstarter<\/strong> crowdfunding campaign<\/a> will fund the remaining development and physical production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From what we can see, this will be an open-world 2D Metroidvania-style adventure featuring classic <strong>NES<\/strong> pixel art and chiptunes. As with all the other <strong>Retro<\/strong> <strong>Room<\/strong> projects, we\u2019re sure the finished article will include a cart, an outer box, and the all-important manual that collectors enjoy. For the time being, if you\u2019re a homebrew <strong>NES<\/strong> fan, make sure to sign up for email notifications for when the <strong>Kickstarter<\/strong> goes live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The blurb from the <strong>Kickstarter<\/strong> page. \u201c<strong>Annalog<\/strong> is a brand new Metroidvania adventure for the <strong>NES<\/strong>, featuring a sprawling world, mysterious lore, open-ended puzzles, and heart-pounding boss fights.\u00a0 Explore an unknown post-apocalyptic world, littered with abandoned machines that you can freely reprogram to do your bidding.\u00a0 As you uncover the history of how this high-tech civilization once fell, you&#8217;ll be faced with a choice: do you bring it all back?\u00a0 Or destroy it forever?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udce3 ANNOUCMENT \ud83d\udce3<\/p>\n<p>ANNALOG is coming for NES! \ud83c\udfae<\/p>\n<p>A brand new Metroidvania adventure featuring a sprawling world, mysterious lore, open-ended puzzles, and heart-pounding boss fights!\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Click to be notified when the kickstarter launches! \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ht1brZ4x9r\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ht1brZ4x9r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sw6sV3pnB3\">pic.twitter.com\/Sw6sV3pnB3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Retro Room \ud83c\udfae\ud83d\udd79\ud83c\udfac\ud83c\udfa5 (@TheRetroRoomRoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRetroRoomRoo\/status\/2023803738499268883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love new games for old consoles, and Annalog, a new NES Metroidvania from The Retro Room, is exactly the kind of game we enjoy reporting on. Although we don&#8217;t know much beyond a teaser trailer shown on the retro publisher\u2019s X\/Twitter account, we do know a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign will fund the remaining development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":31013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[320,139,321,29],"class_list":["post-31011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide","tag-annalog","tag-crowdfunding","tag-nes","tag-physical-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31884,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions\/31884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}