7 Videogames Fans Made While Waiting for Proper Sequels

Long gone are the days of The Beatles and annual release dates you can have Siri set your reminders to. Unless you happen to be Activision – in which case, hi, Activision! – we’d be foolish as gamers to expect another entry in our favorite series from you without two to three years to pass by first.

But already this year, there’s been a windfall of sequels hitting the marketplace after an absurdly lengthy wait. Kid Icarus: Uprising for the 3DS is the first entry since 1991’s Kid Icarus: Of Myth And Monsters, and the February reboot of Syndicate is the first we’ve seen of that name since 1993, a.k.a. grunge’s heyday. And you know how fans are. They hate waiting. Some of them hate waiting so much they take it into their impatient own hands to make their own damned sequels.

So, if you can quit reminiscing about flannel shirts, power chords, and intravenous drugs for just a moment, join Topless Robot, won’t you, as we take a look back at game sequels that took so damn long to come out that fans got inspiringly proactive about it.

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