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Pop the game into your 3DS (or DS if you haven’t gotten with the times yet) and you’ll get to control Lion-O. Surely there could be some pleasure here out of nostalgia alone, right? Well, sadly nostalgia only takes you so far.

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Plus the game is a side-scrolling beat ‘em up, just like my favorite games when I was a kid. And yet, I still held out hope for the game because…well…it’s a Thundercats game, something the six-year-old version of me could only imagine as a beautiful dream. Yep, there was a curious air of stink surrounding the game before anyone could get their hands on it. For some reason, it was also released as a DS title even though those things stopped being produced months ago. A game that had its release delayed long enough that the remake series didn’t even exist when it finally hit shelves quietly last week. That’s right folks, a Thundercats game is finally here.

A reboot TV series premiered last year by the folks who brought you The Animatrix and it was promptly cancelled, but not before Namco Bandai went ahead and commissioned a handheld videogame based on the property. Well, thanks to never-ending 80s nostalgia, there has been a resurgence of Thundercats interest from the ironic T-shirt wearing sect. He does have Battle Cat….although, Lion-O is part cat…hmmm…let’s call it a draw). and the schoolyard arguments over whether or not this team of evil-fighters could beat up He-Man and his squad (I gotta give He-Man the victory. The show is best remembered now (if at all) for the action figures of Lion-O and co. It was that other fantasy action series based on an action figure line that centered on a hero with a big bad sword. If you were a child of the 80s, chances are you’ve still got a soft spot in your hardened heart for Thundercats.