Game news Nintendo Switch: Banjo-Kazooie N64 features a release date and nostalgic trailer
Banjo-Kazooie is an iconic game from Rare and Nintendo 64… and it’ll be back soon. Not with a new game, no, but with a port via Nintendo Switch Online: mark your calendars because we finally have a release date.
Banjo-Kaoozie, indelible borrowings from Rare from the ’90s
Among the most iconic games of the Nintendo 64 era, we can easily cite a few nuggets without digging too much: works developed directly by Big N, like a certain Super Mario 64 or The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but also many legendary games signed Rare, which were enjoying a boastful period at the time.
So to speak, in just a few years we have been spoiled with many great apps: Diddy Kong Racing, Perfect Dark, Conker’s Bad Fur Day but of course also Banjo Kazooie. An adventure and platform game instantly loved by the audience, the birth of an iconic saga that many would like to return to in due form…but let me say this much, since then water has flowed under the bridges. Like Microsoft’s takeover of Rare twenty years ago.
Nevertheless, the American giant, well determined to offer its games on all platforms, in a considerable effort of expansion (or voracious appetite, even to the point of buying Activision-Blizzard for more than sixty billion dollars), A new partnership has just been formed with Nintendo to bring the Banjo Kazooie franchise back to a Nintendo console.
From Nintendo 64 to Nintendo Switch
This comeback will take place via a port of the very first game, released on Nintendo 64 in 1998, to Switch via Nintendo Switch Online. Remember that the latter is nothing more than the online service of the mobile console: all subscribers therefore have access to online games at no additional cost, but also to a catalog of NES and SNES games. If you really like Kyoto company very much, You can then pay an annual premium of $19.99 (double) to access a list of N64 games and SEGA Mega Drive, which are slowly being updated.
In short, if Banjo-Kazooie’s arrival on Switch isn’t new, We now have an exact release date: the port will be available on January 20th. A quick glance at your calendar and you’ll see that it’s only tomorrow. So you don’t have to wait too long.
By the way, The Japanese company delights us with a new trailer, which is a bit ironic considering that the game was released 24 years ago. Something to bring back old memories and if you have never touched this little gem we can only advise you too well.
Through Max_Cagnard, journalist igamesnews.com
MPTwitter
