Hamster Is Bringing VS. Balloon Fight To The Switch eShop Next Week

I would kindof love if Nintendo made a modern-day Balloon flight platformer. Where you can navigate stages using your balloons as a lift, and having your balloons work as extra hits. If you run out of balloons, a single hit can kill you, with the game allowing you to stock up on around 5 balloons or so. It could lend itself to some creative platforming.

Ehhh, don't really care about this one. I'm just waiting for Dentana!! TwinBee

I’ve been waiting for this one! I believe the arcade version does have a larger play field that scrolls a little bit.

@patbacknitro18 Nintendo Land on Wii U has a pretty good version called Balloon Trip Breeze.

Since Nintendo is not doing anything about it, I will buy this game and play it in honor of Satoru Iwata.

@retro_player_22 Oh that's not fair Retro. I'm sure Nintendo has done loads to honour the memory of Mr Iwata.

I do love balloon fight. A balloon fight remaster or balloon fight 2 is not a bad idea! Nintendo!

I’ve actually never liked that game. Why doesn’t someone bring back the 16 bit classic, Side Pocket?!

I've made a rule of buying all of the Nintendo arcade releases, but I hesitated with Golf.

Since finally downloading it about a week ago, it's ironically been my most played Arcade release so far! It's pretty amazing that a game from 1984 holds up so well.

If I'm not mistaken this is one of the Nintendo arcade games noticeably different than NES counterparts, in this case with vertical screens. I'll grab it for sure.

But Hamster should find a way to convey the information: sometimes we know the next release a week ago, most of the times it's 2 days before, then they announce a new batch that gets released before the pending titles, or a game never announced before gets released... It's a mess, but there are always surprises.

@Silly_G I hesitate with Pinball. Because it seems so similar to the NES version (which I don't have anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem), but mostly because it's so simple. I decided to get it with My Nintendo Points, but ended up getting Frogger yesterday. Sometimes the simpler games are the ones we spend the most time with.

Nice! But...

Balloon Fight Vs. was a network game, as in, it used 2 seperate cabinets when playing in multiplayer. I'm hoping that this either have online multiplayer, or a local wireless mode to emulate the game's network multiplayer function.

Would have been really cool if multiplayer was done via wireless play like the vs red tent units.

@patbacknitro18 did you ever play Balloon Kid on the Game Boy? It should still be on the 3DS eshop. Not exactly modern, but does a good job of fusing the Balloon Fight endless trip mode into a more traditional platform game

@patbacknitro18 The mini game in Nintendo Land was pretty fun. Though if it was bigger, maybe even 3D, it could see you delivering packages and letters to people on islands.

@Octane its criminal that Nintendo Land was never ported to Switch. It honestly had a ton of fantastic minigames. I absolutely loved the Balloon Fight minigame from it. Though thats more of a modern day balloon fight, minus the fighting, and less of a traditional platformer which id like to see Balloon Fight adapted too.

@gaga64 never heard of it, but it definitely sounds close to what i was wanting.

@patbacknitro18 Since Nintendo Land often used the gamepad along with the TV, it would be a difficult gane to port to Switch.

I love Balloon Fight. Definitely picking this one up.

@Tandy255 it could still potentially work, but would very much rely on having 2 Switches in the room, one docked (with a bunch of joy-cons for multiplayer) and one undocked but still connected as a gamepad replacement.

Not sure that’s actually possible, and as great as Nintendo Land was, I doubt even Nintendo could justify porting it while still requiring a whole second console. Though they could make the 12 games into NSO sub exclusives - just ones that don’t actually use online play.

@gaga64 Balloon Trip Breeze had you swipe the gamepad to blow breezes to move your guy around (your view was still on the TV). The Yoshi Fruit game had you draw paths on the gamepad to estimate where to go to pick up fruit on the TV. The Mario Chase and Luigi’s Mansion games had one person looking at the gamepad while the other players looked at the TV, like the GC PAC-Man VS game.

@Tandy255 I know, I spent a lot of time on all those games. Like i say, if you can connect an undocked Switch to a docked one through local multiplayer (which I think should be possible), I see no reason you couldn’t replicate every one of the games somehow. It’s just the requirement to have 2 Switches for a collection of mini-games probably doesn’t justify the cost of porting.

I see what you are saying. Yeah, just not as practical. Much more limited in scope, but that is what they did with Pac-Man VS in the Namco collection. With just a single Switch, you can only play as the ghosts. You need a 2nd Switch to play the Pac-Man role.

@gaga64 With a friends Switch, the Mario Chase and Luigi Mansion mini games would be worth bringing back. Those were great party games.

The Donkey Kong obstacle course was also a lot of fun that could be just a single screen. Those mechanics are why I really enjoyed Yoku’s Island Express!

Time for Nintendo Land 2!

@Tandy255 yeah, technically you could always play most of the multiplayer games online, but the fun really came from playing locally and being able to see the whole TV screen, so you’d need a second Switch to get most out of it.

DK and Balloon Trip could both work with just 1 screen. Octopus Dance too at a stretch. F-Zero on 1 screen would just be a bit naff - just standard F-Zero, but without other cars. You could maybe get Takamaru’s ninja castle working as an undocked game with swiping on the screen, but that and Yoshi would be best with the whole 2-screen setup.

Zelda, Metroid and Pikmin could pretty much work as they are, I think, but would definitely be better with a second screen to help with orientation.

Yoshi and Takamaru’s castle made

Awww... This sucks, looks like there's no online, or wireless local multiplayer. Rather it splits the screen for each player...

Boo...

https://twitter.com/game_watch/status/1207639490681982976

@GrailUK By doing what? Some proof would be nice.

@retro_player_22 Why do we need proof of them planting a tree, sending condolences to his family or whatever they did??? It's personal to them!

@patbacknitro18 That sounds a lot like Ballon Kid on Game Boy! I would love to see a modern take on that!

This game does have WIRELESS PLAY!!!