At the end of September, a listing on Nintendo’s website popped up, revealing the all-new team battle game Johnny Turbo’s Arcade: Heavy Burger would be arriving on the Switch eShop in early October.
The originally scheduled date for the game’s launch has since passed and there’s no sign of Johnny’s latest title. Flying Tiger Entertainment has now released a trailer and tweet confirming the multiplayer game - where you blast your way through an array of 1980’s Data East arcade machines - is coming soon.
https://twitter.com/ItsJohnnyTurbo/status/1048606064315387904
If the game's Steam release on 18th October is anything to go by, the Switch release should be at some point later this month as well. Below are the full details about the title:
1-4 Players can battle against time-honored characters in a nostalgia-inducing collage of retro set-pieces from BurgerTime, Karate Champ, Lock ‘N Chase, Heavy Barrel, Side Pocket, and Bad Dudes!
Play as Peter Pepper, the burger-boppin’ hero of Burger Time! He’s not your classic little chef anymore. Wield shotguns, laser rifles, pistols, and machine guns as you lay waste to your opponents in a desperate tug-of-war to THE BANK! Snag the prized MONEY BAG as you release hoards of prisoners while leaping over bottomless pits in the Heavy Burger arena.
Battle the grenade-tossing Green Men from Heavy Barrel as they blast through reinforced steel onto the cliffside fortress. Dodge over hundreds of rounds as tanks and turrets pepper the battlefield.
Shoot explosive pool balls at your friends in a level inspired by Side Pocket. Sink ‘em all for an extra dose of chaos!
Crush your enemies under the enormous weight of falling burger pieces while blasting Pickles, Eggs, and Hot Dogs in the BurgerTime arena.
Navigate a procedurally-generated and fully destructible maze while running from cops, dodging explosive cars, and collecting major coin in the Lock ‘N Chase level.
Dodge mad charging bulls, high flying kicks, and a discerning judge’s eye in the Karate Champ arena. Watch the crowd roar as you pummel your opponents.
Skirt through heavy traffic, roundhouse kicks, and flaming ninjas as you speed boost to your final destination, THE BANK, in the Bad Dudes arena. Deposit that coin with the help of President bank manager Ronnie himself. Take a free ride in his chopper and bask in the glory of HEAVY BURGER MADNESS on the White House lawn.
Have you been waiting for Heavy Burger to arrive on the Switch eShop? Do you like the look of it based on the trailer above? Tell us below.
[source twitter.com, via youtube.com]
Comments 18
What the heck is this?? Lol
This (Burger)Time, it's personal!
another pass from this beeker/bowie hybrid.
Rather just stare at the subway floor than play this.
Our dreams of a Data East Smash Bros. have been answered?
Looks good looking forward to the review
@joey302 I said that exactly the same way. Looked at the clip and still don't totally get it
So it's a play on Burger Time and Heavy Barrel, spliced with I dunno... Smash TV? It looks like an insane romp, and they had me at Peter Pepper as I'll follow BurgerTime to hell and back--I figured he'd be involved
Now it's going on the wishlist.
Data East is turning over in its grave...
Not interested, but will download proper standalone downloads of BurgerTime and Lock 'N Chase, even with Flying Tiger's patented blur filter to hide the evils of pixelated sprites from our innocent eyes.
It's just too bad though that Flying Tiger Entertainment doesn't understand their audience for these classics, as evidenced by the stretched 16:9 material that they distribute as press materials and the inability to disable the blur filter even when you've selected "none" in the screen style setting.
And it's going to be absolutely a hoot when they do standalone releases of 3:4 vertically oriented arcade games (Which evidently are coming, judging by the inclusion of several in this NES Remix style minigame collection) and distribute their press material to NintendoLife and elsewhere with it stretched to 16:9 proportions.
As distasteful as I find it, some 4:3 games survive the butchering of stretching surprisingly well. But there's not a 3:4 arcade game in existence that looks anything but bizarre when stretched to 16:9 proportions.
Food Fight on steroids lol. Looks like fun.
This is actually really cool. Essentially Atari's Food Fight but mixed up with lots of classic arcade machines, that's a great idea. So rare to see classic arcade IP's get used for anything new.
Yay Burger Time was one of my favorites!!!
What in the....
The gameplay made no sense, but the 2sec jumpcuts did not help either or i am getting to old.
@MeloMan oh so you know if it’s a twin stick shooter then color me interested!! But I dunno about the $20 price! Yes Wishlist for now!
@GrailUK
Wow I wish we can get Atari Food Fight on Switch!! Great game!
@joey302 Is it on the upcoming Atari Flashback compilation? (No idea)
@GrailUK that’s quite possible. I believe it was on the Collection for PS4 and Xbox
How weird.
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