Retro City Rampage DX, the definitive version of VBlank's love letter to both 8-bit gaming and Grand Theft Auto, is now on Switch.

Retro City Rampage™ DX is provided via Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux and is also provided DRM-Free for Windows, Mac, and Linux. A free Steam. Get ready to go back in time and face the challenges that are waiting for you 1989! Find yourself into an open world of generalized crime! Play over 60 story mode missions, with more than 40 arcade challenges and over 25 weapons and power-ups to upgrade. Play Retro City Rampage DX on PC and Mac with.

This DX edition goes for £12.99 / €14.99 / $14.99 and contains all the goods the developer added to the game over the years, like an additional 60-plus story missions.

Retro City Rampage first launched in 2012 on PC, PS3 and Vita, but has since gone onto such platforms as Xbox 360, Wii, 3DS, PS4, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

This Switch release sounds like the ideal way to play it though, as it keeps all the nifty 'DX' features of the 3DS version, but presents them on a bigger, better screen.

When asked about the improvements between the Switch and 3DS releases, developer VBlank said on Twitter that the 'biggest differences are the wider camera and visual options, [and] added buttons/sticks.'

What this means is that the Switch edition has support for dual analogue sticks, something featured on the New 3DS version, but not on earlier versions of Nintendo's handheld. Super robot wars v.

Our Chris Donlan recommended the original release of Retro City Rampage and it's only gotten better in the time since launch. 'If you love old games - and old movies and all that other old jazz - there's a good chance you're going to love this, too,' Donlan wrote in his Retro City Rampage review.

VBlank is currently hard at work developing Retro City Rampage's spiritual successor, Shakedown Hawaii, which will likewise come to Switch, along with 3DS, PS4, Vita, and PC. It's shaping up to be a vastly more ambitious adventure.

. Summary: A parody of the open-world action genre, Retro City Rampage takes modern game mechanics and mashes them into an authentic 8-bit experience. It's one half fast paced arcade game, the other half a hilarious story mode! It's all the driving and shooting you'd expect and a whole lot more! With A parody of the open-world action genre, Retro City Rampage takes modern game mechanics and mashes them into an authentic 8-bit experience. It's one half fast paced arcade game, the other half a hilarious story mode! It's all the driving and shooting you'd expect and a whole lot more!

With missions that twist pages straight from classic game experiences, you get to re-live and rewrite history in a way only a modern anti-hero could! When it comes to enemies, weapons are only the beginning! Put on your boots and jump on their heads! Toss 'em around to knock the rest down! Become truly unstoppable with awesome power-ups! Through its world, characters and missions, Retro City Rampage lampoons the entire 8-bit era from its games to the TV, movies and pop culture!