Samba de Amigo, a game first released in arcades in the 20th century but best known for its Dreamcast version, is over twenty years old. So now, in 2023, it’s time for it to return, once again on a Nintendo console with motion controls.
If you’ve never played it, you have miss: It is a rhythm game where you play as a monkey playing the maracas. And the Dreamcast version supports a bunch of rare but incredible ones Plastic Maracas. It was also pretty much the 1999/2000 game you can imagine, especially when you look at a tracklist that includes stuff like Beat and Ricky Martins cup of life.
While the original was discontinued in 1999/2000 and a fancier updated edition was released in Japan not long after (again in both arcades and on Dreamcast), the game was later ported to the Nintendo Wii in 2008. The original? Great. That Wii port that wasn’t developed by Sega but by Gearbox and Escalation? Not so great.
That’s not stopping Sega and Nintendo from trying again with today’s announcement, though Samba de Amigo: Party headquarterswhich is actually a brand new game in the series made specifically for the Switch.
It has single player and local multiplayer modes, along with a “world party” thing where you can compete against a ton of players online and see who’s the last one standing. It will include 40 songs “spanning a variety of genres from around the world.”
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Samba de Amigo: Party headquarters will be released this summer. Please don’t spend half of this trailer like me thinking it looks like a game with NFTs.
