Banjo-Kazooie returns to Nintendo {hardware} this week

Nintendo has introduced the following sport coming to its Switch Online service: Nintendo 64 platforming traditional Banjo-Kazooie. The sport is inextricably related to the N64 — it’s a collect-a-thon with blurry cartoon graphics and cute animal characters — however this can truly mark the primary time you’ll have been capable of play it on Nintendo {hardware} since Microsoft purchased unique developer Rare in 2002.

Rare did launch a few spin-off titles for the Game Boy Advance, however the final main Banjo-Kazooie sport was 2008’s Nuts & Bolts for the Xbox 360. That sport, in addition to 360 ports of the unique Banjo-Kazooie and sequel Banjo-Tooie, are additionally out there on trendy Xbox consoles via Game Pass and a compilation referred to as Rare Replay.

Banjo-Kazooie will likely be out there on Thursday for subscribers to Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack, which introduced N64 and Sega Genesis video games to the service. Since Paper Mario was added in December, it seems to be like Nintendo is planning so as to add roughly one N64 sport a month, which isn’t precisely a breakneck tempo of launch however makes a change from the NES and SNES deep cuts that used to indicate up each few months. Hopefully Nintendo is ready to guarantee that the emulation works higher than it does with a few of the earlier N64 titles.