Banjo-Tooie Gets Dated

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James Parkin

Goods news to all you Banjo fans out there. We now have an official release date for Banjo-Tooie! Thanks to a post on the Banjo Blog, we have the following information:

"4J Studios’ stellar port will be yours to own from Wednesday 29th April – exactly two weeks from now. Set a reminder in your reminding appliance of choice, as it’s full to the brim with updates and tweaks from the original release, not least being a super-charged frame rate and some fully-featured Stop ‘N’ Swoppery"

Hallelujah!

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  • At last, definitely getting this on launch day.
  • ************ AT LAST *************
  • 1200 points do we reko?
  • Something like that.
  • who cares if its 1200, it'll be worth it
  • Man, I've been hoping I could buy and finish Banjo 1 before this came out, but alas. I've got my work cut out for me.
  • yes!! owned the first 1 for my n64 but never got round to getting banjo tooie on it. after the awesome job they did of porting the original over to xbla this will be a must buy for me would happily pay 1200msp for it although i did get banjo 1 free with my pre order of nuts and bolts
  • played Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie back then on N64 both 3-4 times and loved it. Don't know, if I will be getting any of those on XBA... guess I would have them completed both completely in a matter of some hours...
  • Never played Tooie on the N64, I'm looking forward to getting this regardless of the price.
  • Sweet! Got the full 200 on Kazooie and 1250 on Nuts & Bolts, I'll DEFINATELy be getting them all on this too, BIG Banjo fan. Never got round to playing this fully in the N64 days, so I can't wait.
  • definitely should only be 800 pts top, BK was. then again, GameStop will probably find a way to bastardize so if you don't get it from them, you pay 2x.
  • Yea if they make this one 800 then even more people will buy it rather than just the crazed fans, look at Duke Nukem?
  • I wonder if they'll make the multiplayer games playable over Xbox Live. It'd be pretty sweet. It'd be one step away from actually playing Goldeneye 007 since those FPS maps with Kazooie as the gun are pretty much maps from Goldeneye 007 with the textures redone.
  • I called it
  • I'm pretty sure that the first Banjo was 1200MSP not 800MSP so this game will surely be the same. It's worth all of it though as this game is alot quite alot bigger than the 1st game. These 2 arcade games really make up for Nuts and Bolts for me as I thought that game was awful.
  • Finally! I've been waiting for this game for so long, and it's almost here. Silentbob is right, first Banjo Kazooie was 1200 ($15). So this prob will too. Just wish they would make the multiplayer too, that was fun as a kid
  • Ahhh yes! Finally! Now I can calm down and just wait...
  • I anticipate this being 800 MSP. I have to get around to finishing up BK, not to mention advancing in N&B. Far too many good video games in my collection and GameFly queue lately. Not that that's something to really complain about...
  • "GameStop will probably find a way to bastardize so if you don't get it from them, you pay 2x." I dunno. As far as I know, there isn't any free codes for this one like with Banjo Kazooie, so hopefully GameStop can't screw over Microsoft and Rare by giving out codes to any jackass who sends them an e-mail lying about how they pre-ordered and didn't get a code (even though they didn't pre-order). GameStop has absolutely no shame. Anyway, consider my calendar marked.
  • beary-good, get it? yeh ill go now
  • omg banjo--kazooie man this game is giving me so much grief as a perfectionist!
  • yea cant wait....more nintendo games man...let me see zelda or sumthing pop up...dats da day xbox is liveĀ”
  • Yeah I read this somewhere else earlier. Good to see. Banjo kazooie is definitely best XBLA by far..Shame those SSX Tricky HD XBLA rumours were false, that would of been immense. And Goldeneye WONT happen, its been said enough times. If were possible to pick any game to come to XBLA though it should be Zelda:Ocarina Of Time, best game ever!!
  • Suck on that Nintendo. ^___^
  • bango kazooie was an amazing game...tho i never could beat it on the 64...
  • FINALLY! I never got a chance to beat Tooie on N64, so this will be a good chance to do so. I'll be buying this right away, no questions asked.
  • sweet
  • no it not 1200. its only 800 says wikipedia's xbox live arcade section.
  • @28 They never announced a final price yet so how do you know if thats true?
  • YEAH!!!
  • 1200 or 800, i'm getting it either way. owned kazooie but only rented tooie once back on the N64 so looking forward to playing it fully. then to try and stomach n&b, which i dont much care for so far.
  • Wiki could say 200,000mp, that's not official.
  • just came.
  • Very nice i like!
  • I think I just JIZZED IN MAH PANTS!
  • im hoping for the price to be 800points. mostly because i have 880 points left. cant wait, this was the first game i ever beat.
  • Awesome! Can't wait!
  • Ohh god. My nuts and bolt are so excited right now.
  • I C WUT U DID THAR!!!!!
  • ^^ lol @ 38 and 39 and #24 got me thinking... its good to see some N64
  • The Feed (G4) has reported this as being 80 MSP.. I don't believe it..
  • HELL YA!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry . . . . .I grew up on this ****
  • hmm not sure what happened there but heres the rest.... #40 ctd.... its good to see some N64 but they are all non-nintendo propertiess - contra/konami, banjo/rare, etc. if the first party nintendo/xbox barrier is ever cracked (and it will take a freaking mega-deal), it will be a ridiculous coup for microsoft. BUT it will never happen. sure, i'd gladly pay 1600 ms pts for ocarina of time, mario 64, etc. but it just won't happen. nintendo is not a licenser, and MS is relatively frugal. it is fantastic that MS bought rare tho - everyone's hyped about banjo but rare also owns donkey kong, and thus donkey kong country. bring it on, dudes.
  • @ #42, the gamerpics that are being released on the same day are 80MSP, the game itself has not been given a price yet
  • @ #41: Rare does not own Donkey Kong; a part of me wishes they did considering how Nintendo treats that franchise, but alas, Nintendo owns Donkey Kong. That's why the DKC series is on the Virtual Console and not XBLA. Rare only made the games, they do not own them.
  • @ #28 As #32 said; unfortunately Wikipedia is a public site that anyone can update, so you can't really trust what gets said there. However, I would love for it to be right as the DLC/Arcade has bashed my wallet enough recently haha.
  • 800MSP? LMFAO you better hope its not a full 1600, forget 800. I'll gladly buy this game for 1200 though. Never played it on the N64 so it'll be a fresh experience with more playtime than some 360 retail games.
  • YESS
  • I see Microsoft is really brainwashing us good with the incremental price increases . Although Banjo Tooie is a great game I'm amazed at how so many aren't even flinching and embrace a $15 price point. Maybe that would be a good deal though considering used copies are going for $19. I dont understand how some crazy person is trying to sell a new copy for $175 and has the audacity to charge for shipping as well though.
  • damn touche #45, i wish (and thought) they did too. there is precedent for the pricing, i think there's no way its over 800 - why would the subpar sequel cost more than the orig? now that i am informed, i will go mourn the fact that i would have to buy a wii to play DKC again. and im not buyin no damn wii.
  • Nevermind the $175 seller thinks just because a game is old and still in the original wrapping she can charge 2-3 times what it sold for. Pretty much any N64 title made by Rare is sold for $90 and up. Are people really paying these prices?
  • will try out
  • speaking of Rare 64 games... where the CRAP is Killer Instinct Gold??? please Microsuck. make a good decision. i would pay 3200 for a rerelease of KI
  • eww Banjo ka-eww-ie..... Why not add something like Conker, or that game with that gecko....hell why not Spyro....
  • I've never played this game, but I've played the first banjo kazooie on n64. I'll probably just stick to playing a demo before i buy.
  • If I had some money, I would totally buy this first day. Sadly, I don't.
  • yes
  • Cannot wait. I hope it's 800 points. Otherwise I may not be able to budget for it. I actually won't be paying too much attention to the achievements, since I've done all of them as a kid on my 2 or more N64 playthroughs. I'm just gonna sit back, play, and cry as the memories flood through me. God, I sound old. And I'm only 19.
  • Day one purchase for me, as long as my console is back from McAllen TX lol.
  • ^^ lol @ both of the above i got my 36box back in 9 days (do it online), right on time for ninja blade. which is a terrible game but that's beside the point. #58 if you think you feel old now just wait 10 years - still have trouble believing i got my first playstation + FFVII over a decade ago. anyways tho not confirmed yet tooie is supposedly 1200 pts :(
  • mine. at ANY price.
  • @#53 i defiantly agree with you haha i would love to see killer instinct again and blahhh two weeks is too long, i want to play banjo now
  • 15 dollars for the best game in history sounds like a sweet deal ib bought this game new for twice that much when i decided to dust off my n64 but realised my BT was broken
  • A whole 2 week :( i want it now
  • @58 I hear you Pal, I'm 19 and I'll probably cry at the Memories too
  • Must come sooner... Oh well, gives me time to finish Nuts and Bolts I suppose. Thanks for the heads up.
  • I want Jet Force Gemini. Where is Jet Force Gemini?
  • Sure hope this will be more fun than Nuts & Bolts... cause that was one crappy game! 0_o
  • I never was much of a fan of the originals, but I'm glad they are coming out with something a large majority of people actually like. Its a step in the right direction. Then again, with so much love on here for this, if I ever find myself with some extra pts, I might give it another shot.
  • YES!!!!!!!!! Cant wait for klungo battles and increasingly hard quiz show!
  • awesome, no work for two weeks, and in the first couple of days, this comes out, cant wait!!!
  • I probs get it for my daughter. We want Fable 2 DLC!!!
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