The recent popularity of train simulators may suggest that the attraction of choo-choos is a new thing in the video game arena, but that couldn't be further from the truth; Japanese studio Artdink has been active in this realm since 1985, when it released the first in the A-Train series for personal computers.
Since then, the series has been the company's most successful franchise, spanning more than 20 entires up to the present day. It has now been revealed that it's getting a new instalment on the Switch, which marks the first Nintendo A-Train entry since the 2014 3DS release A-Train 3D: City Simulator.
The developer has issued the following statement:
A business meeting in Kyoto again this month… Actually, a Switch version of A-Train is secretly underway. It will be the latest Nintendo system A-Train entry following the 3DS version!
There's no word on a western release, but given that the last few A-Train titles have been localised – the most recent being the PSVR game A-Train Express – the omens are good.
[source gonintendo.com, via gematsu.com]
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I hope this is true. The Switch lacks a good train sim.
A bit weird to announce a game as being secretly underway to the public! Not a secret now is it!!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@NEStalgia Well, someone is potentially going to be a VERY happy camper...
I'd probably buy this if it the reviews were half-decent. The dodgy Switch port of Cities Skylines leaves us a bit lacking the genre.
All aboard the hype A-Train!
For a moment I thought, that "Papers, Please" is coming to Switch.
I’d also love I am an air traffic control hero series to come over from 3DS, enjoy those as a puzzle game
Off topic
But where is our Ninty Direct at?
Seriously it's been too quiet with Nintendo
@ThanosReXXX
@liljmoore Nintendo's mostly occupied with theme parks, branded souvenirs, corporate management strategies and reorganization (a.k.a. sell to the walls for the investor's quarterlies), and if I were to guess, Olympics tie-in domestic projects to focus too much on their core business at the moment.
@NEStalgia Is that... a HYPE train?
Omg, omg, omg... only 117 days to go...
Can't wait to see if this is good or not. I hope one day that Transport Tycoon makes it across.
There is this (I'll double dip) and then the computer translation of the Train Management Sim which looks sweet/ I have high hopes for, due next Month (March?)
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