Sunsoft's Game Boy Platformer Trip World Launches On Switch eShop Next Week

I have this preordered as a physical GBC cart and I can’t wait. The soundtrack alone on this one is killer.
Sunsoft back in the day was right up there with Konami in terms of quality. Might cave and buy this digitally on Switch too because the wait for the physical cart is going to be a long one 😩

$20 is better than the Game Boy price and in color too.

This would be the first time available in North America.
Like the original game, the Virtual Console version was also restricted to the Japanese and European region eShops.

@ChromaticDracula As soon as I played Trip World, I knew the soundtrack has a familiar sound. Same composer as "Looney Tunes" on Game Boy (which got an official GBC update), explaining why that game's OST is much better than it needed to be, and why I still remember it so well from my childhood.

Whether it's digital or Limited Run physical, it's nice to have a way of buying this game other than giving a reseller $200+ USD!

I adore the GB's sound.

@KingMike that’s a fun fact! I have Looney Toons’ cart also because I saw it was made by Sunsoft and I had to get it. I will pay more attention to that soundtrack now — I do remember it being pretty good too. Game is fun too of course.

@NeonPizza I shill it here all the time, but try Gravity Circuit. It's Mega Man except Mischief Makers. Amazing game.

@NeonPizza I totally missed the Prison City announcement for Switch. I just looked it up and it looks amazing… rest assured, I will be getting that. I totally see what games have inspired it but I’m also getting NES Batman vibes with the color palette. Another Sunsoft game!

Many Sunsoft games were top-notch. Blaster Master, Batman and Journey to Silius were some of my favorites from the NES era. Awesome soundtracks as well!

Shame it was so cheap on virtual console in comparison... I hope we get a way to play some licensed sunsoft games at some point. With the TMNT collection and the upcoming Jurassic Park collection among others. It's no longer completely unlikely. Batman on the NES and Gremlins 2 also were fantastic

Overpriced for a very short Gameboy game with added colour and appears to just be taking advantage of the high price of original copies.

I haven't played this game before, but I was so enamoured by the idea of an old GB game getting a new GBC "DX" release that I just had to order the cart from LRG back in April when it was made available for preorder.

@JohnnyMind not everything has to be an argument you know... never stated whether I'd purchase it at this price or not. Really not sure why you're defending the high price. It is highly priced for what it is, regardless of the additions.

It is a VERY short game. Can be completed in 15 minutes. Most people would have just wanted it added to NSO without the bells and whistles

Could this be preceding a new game announcement?

We're gonna be trippin'

@JohnnyMind don't call people out for suggesting $20 is too much for a game that has a total of 15 minutes of gameplay and came out 30 years ago. Call people out for suggesting $50 is too much for a game that has 20 HOURS of gameplay and came out less than 15 years ago (Red Dead Redemption). You're in the wrong comment section

I’d rather have it on NSO.

@JohnnyMind Right about Red Dead, I have amended. I was thinking of the British £40 price. Still though, have you played this game? Because it's starting to sound like you haven't. I have, it's a great little game. But it's not $20. It's like $5 or less. I never felt compelled to replay it.

So people just need to keep in mind that you're spending $20 for a 15 minute experience. Not an argument, just a fact

I played this when it came out on the 3DS virtual console and...meh.

Worth a try if it came to NSO, but I wouldn't pay more than £3 or so for this in 2023. I appreciate the addition of colour, but at the core of it its just a decent Gameboy game lasting less than an hour. Not worth the $20 asking price IMO.

@JohnnyMind you care way too much about this.

I'll add it to the wishlist and wait for a sale. $20 can buy the Castlevania Anniversary Collection.

@JohnnyMind people have been creating Gameboy emulators and colourising Gameboy ROMs in their bedrooms for decades. Sega Genesis Classics has 50 games on it for $30, Atari 50 has 103 games for $40, Castlevania Collection gives you 8 Konami games, including 2 Gameboy games for the same price as this. We are being presented one very short Gameboy game for $20. Yes I could wait for a sale, but it doesn't make this anything like decent value at MSRP, and it probably won't make it decent value at sale prices either.

@NeonPizza it's definitely more X. The fighting is mostly done up close. Love the soundtrack.

@JohnnyMind Developing a colour palette doesn't justify having a 31 year old very short Gameboy game cost more than a lot of modern games. Charging this for a single Gameboy port devalues the work of people developing modern games from scratch.

@magoo don't buy the game. Others will not and others will. No point in doing this whole interpretive dance and pretzeling your logic just to feel right. About a gameboy game. With a stranger.

@LikelySatan it's not just to feel right, I'm a big fan of retro games, and feel it's important that people have access to play them, but charging this for a single Gameboy game just seems unfair and will exclude people from playing it. Yes, I don't need to buy it, and won't be, but that doesn't make it ok and doesn't mean I shouldn't voice my opinion. This is the comment section, it's where people are supposed to voice their opinions.

@Scapetti NA has never gotten the game officially, physical or VC.

@magoo "From scratch", you say? Epic can probably claim credit for half of all games made today, feels like everything is made with Unreal Engine. Middleware wasn't something that existed in those days.

I’ve played through this game. It’s a good game, and $20 is much less than a copy of the original off eBay but… that’s still way too much. This should be like $12 at launch. $15 at the most… unless there’s really is so much extra content packed in.

@magoo sure. You just aren't going to convince anyone that thinks this is a fair price though. You aren't going to litigate this here. It's just not possible. I was happy to buy RDR for $50 and felt like I got away with stealing Hollow Knight at $20. Im just saying the argument seems fruitless..

@LikelySatan Well I'll definitely not convince anyone if I don't try. The concern is, if people just accept it, this becomes the norm, and then any Gameboy game ported to the Switch costs $20.

I'm always down for beautiful 2D games so I'll be playing this. Heck maybe I'll buy the gameboy colour cartridge version since it seems my analogue pocket will delivered to me in another 2 or 3 days, finally after 1 year of waiting 😃

Edit: The gameboy colour version is sold out 😕

The North American eShop is saying the game comes out September 28. ($19.99)

There must have been a mistake in the press release or something. There aren't even pre-orders for the digital version open.

EDIT: It is now September 28, and the release date has changed once again — to October 26.