Masanobu Endō who created Xevious, The Tower of Druaga and the shmup Grobda for Namcot as well as developing several other iconic 80’s and 90’s games (think several Family Circuit’s and Wizardry’s as well as the Saturn JRPG Airs Adventure) as Game Studio now predominantly makes mobile games for the subsidiary of Game & Studio: Mobile & Game Studio. Next week marks Endo’s return to a Nintendo platform since the days of the Game Boy Color with the Action Survive Cinematic Pinch (yes I google translated that one!) game PINCH 50

PINCH 50 stars a treasure hunting protagonist who has crash landed on the amazingly titled island of mystery. Your goal is obviously to escape the island of mystery via using just the A and B buttons as well as the d-pad. Predictably the game is full of obstacles such as bears, sharks, boulders and spikes etc. With online leaderboards added to the frantic action, PINCH 50 hopes to be a serious contender to the likes of Bike Rider and 10 Second Run as the best game of its type on the eShop, and sees release on Wednesday for just ¥500.