Retro gaming keeps winning, and this week's proof is a fun one. New Old Pixels has signed a deal with Microids to bring Toki, the 1989 arcade game, to classic platforms. Time Extension broke the news, and if you've been collecting retro releases the way I have, you already know why this matters.

That's about all the confirmed detail we have right now, and honestly I'd rather keep it that way than pad the story with guesses. The deal is signed, Toki's arcade roots go back to 1989, and the target is classic platforms. No specific platform list, no release date, no edition details. All of that is still coming.

What I can offer instead is opinion, and I'll own it as that. I love deals like this one. Anytime a publisher puts an old arcade title back into circulation on classic hardware ecosystems, a little pocket of players who never stopped loving the game gets to hand it to someone new. Whether that means physical media or something else for Toki specifically, we don't know yet, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

The community angle is what keeps pulling me back to this one. My hope is Toki finds the same crowd that shows up for every one of these revivals, the folks who want old games exactly as they were, warts and cheap deaths included.

I still buy physical cartridges whenever I can, so I'll be watching this one closely. Which classic platform are you hoping Toki lands on?