"THE NEWZEALAND STORY" is an action game released by TAITO in 1988.
Take control of the hero TIKI on an adventure to rescue your darling Phee-phee from the leopard seal.
Each stage is a sprawling maze. Fight your way to the goal, using balloons for floating action gameplay!

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

Ginnung is a tight platformer with simple and versatile movement for you to master. Perfect your escape in 50  levels, and slay the monsters in your way! Set in a mysterious world of Norse spirits and Gods.

Ginnung is a movement focused platformer with speed and tight controls. Run, wall jump and dash your way with speed, whilst fighting the monsters that await you. This world is not where you belong. Master the levels and movement to ultimatly escape your Ginnung with style!

You can dash in any direction and will reset upon touching a wall or the ground. Gain extra dashes by bouncing off any projectiles. You can also dash towards the ground to gain a small speed boost, which will grant higher jump. Use this to find secret routes and collectibles hidden in the levels.

You are hunted by the spirits of this world. Use your trusty weapon to slay all that is in your way. Including a refletion of yourself, which you will battle in intense boss fights.

The evil Croquetto Empire is trying to conquer Onionia and it's up to one brave onion farmer, and his mom, to stop the tyrannical invading fascist army!

Classic old school platforming action from the creator of Gunman Clive and Mechstermination Force. Defeat the evil army by throwing onions, or lifting and throwing enemies. Old school gameplay inspired by 8-bit classics. Full 3D graphics with a unique artstyle and custom engine. 16 levels with a huge variety of different environments, obstacles, enemies and giant bosses.

EXTREME! multitasking RUN and GUN with a colorful twist! Team up with pixelBOT, shoot up everything in your way and master an unique color-based destruction! Show what you've got and help the BOT breaking out of the Forbidden Factory!

Featuring 21 versions of six of the most iconic Wonder Boy games ever released, this incredible compilation brings the influential platformer series to today’s hardware.

Through the 1980s and 1990s the Wonder Boy series gained a vast cult following thanks to its distinct blend of energetic platforming, action-RPG elements, and even shoot ‘em up gameplay. And now you can enjoy a diverse spread of the Wonder Boy games that have left a powerful legacy throughout gaming, from the 1986 arcade original to 1994’s Monster World IV.

Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection brings the series up-to-date with precise ports for today’s hardware, and new features such as the ability to rewind your game at any moment.

Whether you’re a retro devotee wanting to catch up on this important piece of gaming history, a Wonder Boy fan looking to play your favourites on cutting edge hardware or are simply looking to experience the very best in nostalgic gameplay, Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection is about as essential as it gets.

Lost deep below the earth, trapped in ancient ruins, the two of you must work together to overcome the trials of these forgotten depths and escape. But it’s not all cooperation and teamwork - you each must try to escape with The Jade Statue, a mysterious and ancient relic of untold value. Only one of you can have the relic, and down here? Anything goes.

Puzzle your way through three distinct areas of the ruins, with each offering a distinct set of curious challenges to overcome. Not only that, each area adds new traps, tools, and devious devices to help you get an edge on your “friend” and secure The Jade Statue. But be careful as you dig deeper through the remnants of this lost civilization - the distant rumbling sounds like you’re not the only ones trapped down here…

Frido is a simple game for kids and adults inspired by the popular arcade games of the 2000s. The player will have to take control of a robot that has fallen into the past and do everything to help him return home. As the game progresses, you will need to collect parts and solve simple puzzles.

• Charming protagonist!
• Simplicity!
• Nostalgia!

Midnight Runner is a fast-paced 3D platformer where you'll use your parkour skills and your reactions to climb walls and move along them, overcoming difficult areas and traps.
Midnight Runner is a fast-paced 3D platformer where your path is only forward to vibrant locations to test your parkour abilities, but be careful, because one missed jump could mean death.
Earn your spot at the top of the leaderboard and watch others play the game,
to determine the best strategies for completing levels.
Functions:
Fast paced 3D parkour gameplay that immerses you in intense platforming challenges.
Ride the walls, but watch out for the traps or you'll fall to your death.
Use the grappling hook to fly through the levels by clinging to blocks.
In the game, you can make your own path by breaking the physics and breaking the level design.
Levels galore are provided immediately upon launch to test your parkour skills.

A tight action side-scroller with challenging robotic bosses. Dodge metallic dangers, acquire powerful weapons and blast your way through a destroyed world full of deadly machines where running out of energy means defeat.

Until now, the planets of our solar system float peacefully through space. Take on the role of a ruler and fight for control over the planets of our solar system with up to three other friends in this local couch multiplayer.


Pentacore is a metroidvania with a focus on platforming and exploration. Use your skills and abilities to aid you through a large, cavernous, world filled with menacing creatures. Uncover a horrible mystery find a way to escape the planet.

STORY:
You don't know why you're awake now, but it's too late for everyone else. Now you must
explore a huge world with monstrous creatures lurking everywhere and uncover the mystery behind your imprisonment and hopefully get out with your skin intact.

FEATURES:
- Explore a large world filled with terrifying enemies!
- Find and collect many upgrades to expand your arsenal.
- In-Game timer for those who want to attempt a speedrun.
- Many ways to play through and explore the world.
- Unlockable secret ending!

The "Pixel Game Maker Series" is a series of games created using the action game creation software "Pixel Game Maker MV" that can be enjoyed on the Nintendo Switch™.

A new side-scrolling platformer where you go flying out of control at the slightest touch! In this virus-infected world, it is your job to collect the scattered pieces of vaccine code and exterminate the virus!

Mrs.Cat Between Worlds is set in cute and deadly fantasy versions of the planets Mars and Neptune.

In this 2D precision platformer series, you have to master the skill of jumping with different amounts of gravity, as well as other special space cat movement techniques.

You’ll need to avoid dangers, collect shiny energy gems, and ultimately make it to the exit to warp to the next level.

Features
* 2 Mrs.Cat series games bundled together
* Different mechanics and dangers in each game
* 50 levels in each game
* Stylized pixel art
* Cool soundtrack

■Game Overview
There is no difficult storyline or complicated equipment in this game.
All you have to do is dash or jump to the right while blasting and smashing enemies.

If you destroy enemies quickly, you will get a combo and get a bonus to your score.
This bonus will help you to earn points. Wads of money are flying in the sky.
Aim for 1,000,000,000 points!

Even if you happen to be destroyed by the enemy, you will just go back to the beginning of the stage.
Your score will also be restored to what it was before the stage started, without penalty.
It is a kind design that allows you to try again and again.

2-player cooperative play is also supported.
You can also enjoy it with your friends and family!

This is a fun game.

Challenge
Find and collect hidden panels!
Secret messages! Can you get to the truth?
The higher the score, the shorter the clear time... Challenge the developer's record!

Mecha Operation
Ganzog's basic weapon is a shot that can be fired in any direction.
The shot becomes a powerful grenade by the energy that accumulates over time.
Energy is also used for dashing and boosting in the air.
The use of energy is an important point.
Ganzog is equipped with a super mode that allows the energy to be unlimited.
This means that Ganzog in Super Mode is the most powerful!

And its fighting attack, which blasts away enemies and containers, is exhilarating!
However, if you run out of life, your Ganzog will break.
Don't forget to protect yourself with a shield.

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. REVENGE OF THE MOONRIDER In the oppressed world of Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, humanity finds an unlikely hero. After building an army of super soldiers as weapons of war, the authoritarians unwittingly seal their own fates by bringing online the ninja warrior known as Moonrider. Conceived as a tool to preserve the totalitarian state, the Moonrider instead rejects its intended purpose and wages a relentless battle for vengeance against its creators and fellow super soldiers. GEAR UP AND PREPARE TO BATTLE YOUR CREATORS The design of Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider puts the best classic action-game elements in the laser-precise sights of its starring ninja, ensuring snappy, responsive combat that’s supremely challenging. Powerful modifier chips are hidden and guarded throughout the adventure, allowing you to customize the Moonrider’s fighting style while gaining killer advantages and abilities.

Discover the incredible world of Rafa, a boy who loves to venture into his fantasy world, in which he will need your help to face a world full of obstacles and strange creatures. It's a great family game, without any violent appeal, it's just fun like the famous classic games from the 90's.

Neon Souls is a fast-paced platformer where you paint invisible platforms with neon ink.

Use your parkour skills including jumping, double jumping, wall jumping, and sliding to paint everything around you.
The game offers 50 levels of challenge, including 4 enormous bosses to defeat.

The challenge gradually builds over time, and your puzzle solving and precision will be put to the test.

Play this engaging arcade game alone or with a friend as you complete over 40 exciting levels in three biomes, one after another. In your way there will be mines, moving platforms, cannons, magnets, winds, ice and many more.
You’ll just love the original graphics and visual effects pulsating in sync with some cool music to match!

• Play together with a friend on a split screen
• Over 40 different levels in three biomes
• Night levels
• More than 20 different types of traps and obstacles
• Fantastic soundtrack

Fight hordes of enemies for the freedom of the whole world!
Defeat waves of dangerous opponents, and collect consumables during combat to create upgrades for your hero. Develop your character to unlock different spells you can use in the battle. You must prepare yourself properly because dangerous bosses who want to destroy the entire universe will appear at the end of each stage. Only you can resist their strength. Use your skills to defeat any rival standing in your way to freedom!

Game Features:
-Spells of varying use and power
-Crafting system for the main character
-Hero upgrade in the magic skill tree
-Exciting boss fights
- 100 stages
-Arena mode with waves of enemies

Explore an enemy planet and eliminate threats to the safety and well-being of your home world. A puzzle-platformer starring three characters with different skill sets, who will have to assist each other during their adventures in order to fulfill a variety of level objectives.

Story
Pearl and Gray find a treasure map.
The two rivals compete with each other...
Take control of Gray and clear 100 stages to reach the treasure first!

Game System
An easy-to-learn puzzle action game with lots of variety!
Collect key items and open the door in puzzle stages.
Face off against Pearl in battle stages!

Controls
Left/Right: Move
Up/Down: Move up/down ladders
B: Jump
X: Hook shot (when held in inventory)
 : Pause
R

Why do tumbleweeds tumble?
Where are the best tumbling fields?
What lies beyond the tumbled...?

"Hey, do you want to tumble with me?"

Game overview:
The game system is similar to a clicker game. The difference from clickers is that you do not earn points by clicking, but by tumbling weed and breaking cacti.
Operate tumbleweeds and explore the wilderness. Through their adventures, they grow, learn new truths, meet new friends, and experience a variety of things.
Tumbleweeds earn TP (Tumble points) by moving. Use the TP you earn to gain abilities and increase your TP even more efficiently.

Feature:
Online multiplayer: Up to 16 players can play together. There are quick matches and friend matches, both of which you are free to enter and exit at any time. In Quick Match, soaps from all over the world are trying to reach the soap holder at their own pace. In Friend Match, you can easily play with specific friends only by using one keyword. Of course, you can also play alone.

Growth: You can use the TP (tumble points) you get from rolling to grow.

Living proof there: Tumbleweeds are alive. What is alive will eventually die. But when the plant dies, a new life will sprout in it.

Switch. Solve. Survive. Backpack Twins is a hard but fair single player puzzle platformer... with a twist! Control both twins and make them work together in order to solve environmental puzzles, move forward and stay alive!

Pixel Boy: Lost in the Castle is a classic 2D pixel art game similar to games from the 80's. The mission is simple: Move the red box to the target and find a way out!

Creative thinking and problem solving is more than necessary to solve all levels. But do not worry! If you get stuck, you can alweys use the golden crown to skip a level.

Features
- 96 game levels to solve
- Pixel art graphics
- 3 gold crowns to skip levels
- No time limit
- No enemies

Set off on an adventure to find the way back to the birds' home. Face different animals during the journey through different labyrinths, dodge traps and collect all the feathers. Transit between the map and levels in this platform game.

Best Nintendo Switch Platformer Games - Page 36

Arcade Archives THE NEWZEALAND STORY

Ginnung

Onion Assault

pixelBOT EXTREME!

Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection

Dyadic

Frido

Midnight Runner - Blade Galaxy Beat Puzzle Legacy 3D Games Ultimate Edition

OmegaBot

Critical Zone

Pixel Game Maker Series Pentacore

Smilemo

Mrs.Cat Between Worlds

Pixel Game Maker Series BombMachine Gunzohg

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

Rafa's World

Neon Souls

Collab Ball

Hollow World: Dark Knight

Lost Snowmen

Pixel Game Maker Series Pearl Vs Grey

Tumbleweed Destiny

Backpack Twins

Pixel Boy - Lost in the Castle

Journey To The Blue Mountain