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Weekly Dose of Gaming News - Nintendo Switch Online Added 5 new Retro Games
Nintendo does a great job of providing us retro lovers with a huge number of incredible games from our childhoods. In fact, Nintendo Switch Online just released five new games putting the total at 104, that's all lot of retro to play!
The most recent five added are slightly more obscure titles which we're fine with. Finding retro games we haven't played before is always exciting.
The five titles that we'll have a chance to play are; Caveman Ninja: Joe & Mac, which was an arcade game that was ported to the SNES in 1991; Magical Drop II, a puzzle game originally released in 1996 for the Neo Geo in Japan; Super Baseball Simulator, a baseball game released in 1991 for the SNES; Spanky's Quest also released in 1991 for the SNES, you get to play as an adorable monkey with a magic bubble; And finally, Ninja Jajamaru-kun an action game released in 1985 for the Famicom only in Japan. It wasn't until 2007, that the rest of the world got to play it when it was released on the Wii Virtual Console.
We're pretty hyped to play some retro games we haven't before. Are there any of the newly added titles that you're looking forward to playing?
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Weekly Dose of Gaming News - The Button Bashers: A Retro Game Documentary Drama
Retro game lovers, get ready for a documentary made just for you! A documentary drama called The Button Bashers is currently in production with the hopes of being released in late 2021.
The film is created by Elerby Studios and explores computer gaming dating all the way back to the 80s. The Button Bashers was written, directed and funded by Elerby Studios owner, Lee Bolton, who explains his reasoning for creating the movie saying "This film has been my passionate project at the studio. I grew up with the 80s computer games." He goes on to say, "It's a documentary drama, so we've got interviews with the people who were involved in making games in their back bedrooms, speaking about how they made a lot of money in a short space of time, and then we have actors too. Now, it's a multi-billion dollar industry. It's really interesting, it's like a piece of history."
For our part, we're excited to see some of the creators who were included in the documentary, some of the people interviewed in the movie are huge in the industry to this day and are still making games for the Xbox and PS5.
Elerby Studios is in talks with a production company in the US, but no details have been revealed that unfortunately means we don't yet know how or when it will be released however we're keeping an eye out for when we might get to watch the upcoming documentary drama.
Is The Button Bashers something you'd be interested in checking out?