{"id":105789,"date":"2019-12-19T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/hamster_is_bringing_vs_balloon_fight_to_the_switch_eshop_next_week"},"modified":"2019-12-19T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T03:30:00","slug":"hamster-is-bringing-vs-balloon-fight-to-the-switch-eshop-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/hamster-is-bringing-vs-balloon-fight-to-the-switch-eshop-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamster Is Bringing VS. Balloon Fight To The Switch eShop Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c12c721dce65e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c12c721dce65e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Likely to be the last Arcade Archives release of 2019<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>51 mins ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Balloon Fight\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c12c721dce65e\/balloon-fight.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c12c721dce65e\/balloon-fight.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Balloon Fight\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Like many other companies, Hamster looks like it&#8217;ll be working right up until the end of 2019. Its next classic game (arriving in all regions next week on 27th December) is likely to be the final Arcade Archives release of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Nintendo&#8217;s 1984 arcade release <strong>VS. Balloon Fight<\/strong>. This game was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/hamster_is_bringing_balloon_fight_vs_castlevania_and_more_to_switch_eshop\">previously<\/a> named for Hamster&#8217;s collection back in September and will be available for $7.99 \/ \u20ac6.99 \/ \u00a36.29 when it lands on the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n<p>The arcade version is similar to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/balloon_fight\">Balloon Fight<\/a><\/strong> on the Famicom\/NES (which is currently available on the Switch Online service), and the Arcade Archives version will also allow you to adjust various settings as well as compete against high scores set by players from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is this the classic release you&#8217;ve been waiting for? Comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/arcade-archives-vs-balloon-fight-coming-to-switch-next-week\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/arcade-archives-vs-balloon-fight-coming-to-switch-next-week\/\">nintendoeverything.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/switch-eshop\/related-info\/662023df406712dbcb4bc9750ad5eca0 @ 2019-12-19T04:01:33+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likely to be the last Arcade Archives release of 2019 by Liam Doolan 51 mins ago Like many other companies, Hamster looks like it&#8217;ll be working right up until the end of 2019. Its next classic game (arriving in all regions next week on 27th December) is likely to be the final Arcade Archives release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}