{"id":26507,"date":"2026-02-11T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26507"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:39:59","slug":"tomba-special-edition-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/tomba-special-edition-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomba Special Edition (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The two Tomba games are some of my favorites on the PSOne.\u00a0 They\u2019re 2.5D platformers that are kind of like a cross between Klonoa and the Wonder Boy games.\u00a0 You play as a caveboy wild kid with pink hair named Tomba, and you fight these evil pig guys.\u00a0 I remember when I first saw this game at the very first E3 I ever went to and someone dressed as Tomba gave me a demo disc. I got to review both games in the series when I worked at The Dallas Morning News, too!\u00a0 Did you know that one of the guys who helped make the Tomba games also used to work for Capcom and helped make some of the early Ghosts N Goblins and Mega Man games there?\u00a0 A year or so ago they re-released this game on Switch and even made a special edition of it.\u00a0 I normally don\u2019t spend that kind of money on these things, but sometimes I splurge and I got it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had it for a while and decided I would show it off when I didn\u2019t have many games to review.\u00a0 Well we\u2019ve gotten to that point so here it is!<\/p>\n

Here is a bigger picture of the big box everything comes in.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back of that big box.<\/p>\n

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I think my favorite thing in the box are these Tomba and Pig action figures!<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also these little postcards with artwork on them.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also a little hardcover book that doubles as a strategy guide and artbook.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a page from the inside strategy guide.\u00a0 I only wish the book were a bit bigger.<\/p>\n

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Inside the big box is a smaller box with the game and other goodies.\u00a0 I like how they recreated the original cover art from the PlayStation.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back of that box.<\/p>\n

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Inside you get a CD soundtrack.\u00a0 You don\u2019t see CDs much anymore.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the game of course.<\/p>\n

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You also get a steel box you can put the game in if you like.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the front of that.<\/p>\n

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And the inside.<\/p>\n

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Last is a poster.\u00a0 One side has some Japanese artwork.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure which way is up!<\/p>\n

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The other side has a map.\u00a0 Since this is a 2.5D platformer, that map isn\u2019t very useful.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Let me know what you think in the comments section.\u00a0 Did you ever play the Tomba games?\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two Tomba games are some of my favorites on the PSOne.\u00a0 They\u2019re 2.5D platformers that are kind of like a cross between Klonoa and the Wonder Boy games.\u00a0 You play as a caveboy wild kid with pink hair named Tomba, and you fight these evil pig guys.\u00a0 I remember when I first saw this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26509,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions\/26509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}