A 38-year-old NES platformer is getting a Steam remake by its original husband-and-wife team, as the pair's 'final major game product'

Games get remade for all sorts of reasons, but I think you'd struggle to find one with as heartwarming a basis as this. The Battle of Olympus—a side-scrolling platformer originally released on the NES in 1988, is getting a remake early next year created by its original husband-and-wife team.

Admittedly, that statement is slightly misleading. Per Time Extension, programmer Yukio Horimoto and artist Reiko Oshida (now also Horimoto) were not actually married when they made The Battle of Olympus—though they were in a romantic relationship at the time of the game's development.

"We fell in love and wanted to make our game together, so we talked about the game concept for a long time," Horimoto explained to VG247 in an interview from several years back. "I like Greek myths and legends, so we decided to base our game on those legend...