On the Switch 2’s launch day, there will only be a handful of fully original games that aren’t ports. Mario Kart World will be available, but among the other few original titles is a game called Survival Kids. You’d be forgiven for not knowing it is actually part of a larger series. The first game in the series released in 1999 for the Game Boy Color and shared the name of the upcoming Swtich 2 sequel, Survival Kids. It received a Game Boy sequel and then the series continued on DS and Wii where it had a different name, Lost in Blue.
A few days ago, Survival Kids was added to the Nintendo Online Game Boy library alongside Gradius The Interstellar Assault, Kirby’s Star Stacker, and The Sword of Hope.
Survival Kids, the original game, is a well-liked, innovative title that borrowed ideas from titles like Zelda and Pokémon to create a survival game on a small scale years before the genre became a popular standard. Game Informer scored it a 7.5/10 when it released.
Physical copies of the game are also quite rare. According to pricecharting.com, boxed copies of game typically sell for about $430. It’s nice to see Nintendo and publisher Konami recognizing potential upcoming interest in the series and making the original game available on Switch.