Space Adventure Cobra

A release date was recently revealed for Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening, a side-scroller that aims to bring Buichi Terasawa’s classic series to life on consoles and PC this August. We didn’t have to wait long for a followup preview, with the new “Anime Trailer” mixing in some character animation with the action.You can see Cobra running and gunning along with other playable characters in the video below.Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening ‘Anime Trailer’Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening hits PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG on August 26.  As previously reported, it will cover the first 12 episodes of the anime adaptation, which originally aired in Japan for 31 episodes from 1982 to 1983.

Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening was previously revealed as a side-scroller based on Buichi Terasawa’s legendary manga and its anime adaptation. Now publisher Microids and developer Magic Pockets have locked in a release date, lining the action game up for an August 26 launch on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG.As previously reported, Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening covers the first 12 episodes of the anime adaptation, which originally aired in Japan for 31 episodes from 1982 to 1983. It also takes inspiration from Terasawa's original 1978-1984 manga, which went on to inspire the aforementioned classic anime along with OVAs, a 2010 anime and, perhaps most famously, Osamu Dezaki's 1982 classic Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie.Source: Microids on X (formerly Twitter)

Space Adventure Cobra is on the way back to our screens, but perhaps not in the way you expected. Developer Magic Pockets has hooked up with publisher Microids to bring a side-scrolling action game inspired by Buichi Terasawa's classic series to consoles and P