Forbes' Erik Kain wrote:

Nightmare Busters isn’t exactly a new game, though it’s being billed as such hither and thither.

The novelty? It’s an SNES game, and there haven’t been any “new” Super Nintendo games in 15 years (though I suspect that figure may not take into account the indie development scene.)

The thing is Nightmare Busters was already very much a game planned for release on the SNES but for one reason or another publisher Nichibutzu dropped the title and it was never released.

Super Fight Team, the company behind the release of the game, has partnered with the game’s original developers to release the game on SNES with a fully modern $60+ price-tag.

Of course, you could just as easily (and much more cheaply) fire it up in an emulator and play the game in your browser. I’ve tried it, and it’s definitely a tough little game from what I’ve played. Certainly it would play better with a gamepad rather than a keyboard, but beyond that I can’t see much reason to pay full price for the title, especially since many emulators will allow you to use a controller with games that support them.

It’s also hard to tell from the tiny screenshots on the game’s webpage whether or not the graphics have been retooled. It certainly looks like they have, but it could just as easily be that the smaller images simply look crisper than the emulator.