{"id":17496,"date":"2018-04-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/venture_kid_is_coming_to_nintendo_switch_and_its_a_console_exclusive"},"modified":"2018-04-16T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:00:00","slug":"venture-kid-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-and-its-a-console-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/venture-kid-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-and-its-a-console-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Kid Is Coming To Nintendo Switch, And It&#8217;s A Console Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news8.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/venture_kid_is_coming_to_nintendo_switch_and_its_a_console_exclusive\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/venture_kid_is_coming_to_nintendo_switch_and_its_a_console_exclusive\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Indie studio FDG Entertainment has confirmed its retro platformer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/venture_kid\">Venture Kid<\/a><\/strong> is headed to consoles. Well, to one console, that is &#8211; and it&#8217;s only Nintendo Switch! The 8-bit throwback &#8211; which is currently in Early Access on Steam &#8211; will place you in the shoes of the titular &#8216;Kid&#8217; as you battle the evil Dr. Teklov and fight your way to his giant space fortress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The game comes with nine levels and plenty of bosses to tackle, eight unique power-ups to&#8230; well&#8230; power you up, many secrets areas to uncover and a lovely chiptune soundtrack (for those authentic retro feels) courtesy of composer Matt Creamer (who has previously worked on Retro City Rampage, Cartoon Network Match Land and more).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VentureKid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VentureKid<\/a> coming up next! Please stay tuned for more info about this fantastic action game heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steam_games?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Steam_games<\/a> and console-exclusive to the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lVkQDChq4z\">pic.twitter.com\/lVkQDChq4z<\/a><\/span>\u2014 FDG Entertainment (@FDG_Games) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDG_Games\/status\/985891707458859013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>The two-man studio didn&#8217;t reveal when the game will be hitting Nintendo Switch, but from what we&#8217;ve seen, it&#8217;s shaping up to be an addictive throwback and a perfect fit for Ninty&#8217;s handheld. But what do you think of it? Share your thoughts below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie studio FDG Entertainment has confirmed its retro platformer Venture Kid is headed to consoles. Well, to one console, that is &#8211; and it&#8217;s only Nintendo Switch! The 8-bit throwback &#8211; which is currently in Early Access on Steam &#8211; will place you in the shoes of the titular &#8216;Kid&#8217; as you battle the evil [&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-17496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496","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=17496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}