Meridium Games has announced that a physical boxed edition of 2019's Pang Adventures — dubbed the "Buster Edition" — will be arriving on Switch in "Q1 2021". It'll be available in retail stores in Europe and Australia, although there's no specific word on North American distribution at the moment.
The boxed version — which is releasing for PS4 at the end of November — features a reversible sleeve (as you can see above), a "retro styled survival manual", and some stickers and will set yo back £24.99 / €29.99 / £24.99.
The game — an update of the 2-player arcade classics which also went by the name Buster Bros. — was developed by Dotemu and released for Switch at the very start of 2019. It sees you taking control of two brothers charged with saving the world (natch) from an alien invasion which mostly consists on raining deadly attack balls (ahem) down on humankind.
Here are some details from the PR blurb, plus some screenshots of the Switch version to jog your memory — January 2019 feels like much further away than it is, right?...
- 3 different ball-popping modes
- Tour Mode: Fightback the alien forces, one location at a time!
- Score Attack: Save the world with only 3 lives and NO CONTINUES! A real arcade experience.
- Panic Mode: Bust balls like a legend! 99 levels of continuous battles will put your skills to the ultimate test.
- Local Co-op: Adventures are best shared! The couch co-op feature is available in every game mode, allowing friends and family to team up and save the world!
- More than 100 levels scattered throughout Antarctica, Scotland, Death Valley, Bora Bora... each location with its own unique tricks and twists!
- The Pang brothers have upgraded their gear since the last alien invasion: machine guns, flamethrowers, lasers, shurikens…you name it, they've got it!
We enjoyed the game when we reviewed it, welcoming the addition of online play and calling it "a tense and instantly enjoyable ode to a timeless arcade romp". And soon it'll be available in physical form — lovely!
Have you been waiting for a physical Pang on Switch? You haven't been waiting in vain — let us know below if you'll be picking this up next year.
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Awesome boosted sales because it has a physical release
I actually completely missed this and download it! I think it may be towards the bottom of my long, long wishlist.
They physical release is a good move you feel
Was sad to notice over the weekend Amazon UK's date change from November to 2021, bu I will surely pick it up, its an awesome reboot!
Can’t beat Mighty! Pang for that refined classic feel. Doubtful it will ever see a rerelease, though. But then post-Wii VC, many of the rereleased classics lucky enough to come back have been getting weak sauce emulation. If the lag and basic options are worse than RetroArch, you’ve done a bad job and shouldn’t charge the public. That’s the problem with getting the license to beloved classics, the temptation to turn a quick buck does nothing for game preservation
Great remake/reboot of this game. I bought it a few times already on multiple systems.
£6.24 in south Africa eshop store. Yeah I think I will pass on the retail version.
It's a definite maybe. I have the eshop version already but haven't played it much. I'll give it some more attention and see if the gameplay and soundtrack can convince me.
I am a big fan of the original, but I cannot get my head round the ‘mobile phone game’ looking facelift
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