{"id":569649,"date":"2026-02-06T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/569649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:11:11","slug":"konami-and-m2-announce-new-goemon-switch-collection-here-are-the-13-retro-titles-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/569649\/","title":{"rendered":"Konami And M2 Announce New Goemon Switch Collection, Here Are The 13 Retro Titles Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of the Goemon and Mystical Ninja series, there was a rather exciting 40th anniversary announcement shared during this week’s Japanese Partner Direct.<\/p>\n

Konami and the emulation experts at M2<\/a> are teaming up to release Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo!<\/strong> – a new retro collection coming to the Switch and multiple other platforms in Japan on 2nd July 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This package will include 13 titles from across the series. It includes releases from the Famicom, Super Famicom and Game Boy era. Here’s the full list (thanks, Time Extension<\/strong><\/a>):<\/p>\n

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– Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu<\/strong> (Famicom, 1986)
– Ganbare Goemon 2<\/strong> (Famicom, 1989)
– Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta \u014cgon Kiseru<\/strong> (Famicom, 1990)
– Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2: Tenka no Zaihou<\/strong> (Famicom, 1992)
– Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuushutsu Emaki<\/strong> (Super Famicom, 1991)
– Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Sh\u014dgun McGuiness<\/strong> (Super Famicom, 1993)
– Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishi J\u016brokub\u0113 no Karakuri Manjigatame<\/strong> (Super Famicom, 1994)
– Ganbare Goemon Kirakira D\u014dch\u016b: Boku ga Dancer ni Natta Wake<\/strong> (Super Famicom, 1995)
– Soreyuke Ebisumaru! Karakuri Meiro \u2013 Kieta Goemon no Nazo!!<\/strong> (Super Famicom, 1996)
– Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru!<\/strong> (Game Boy, 1991)
– Ganbare Goemon: Kurofune T\u014d no Nazo<\/strong> (Game Boy, 1997)
– Ganbare Goemon: Tengu-t\u014d no Gyakush\u016b!<\/strong> (Game Boy Color, 1999)
– Ganbare Goemon: Seik\u016bshi Dynamites Arawaru!!<\/strong> (Game Boy Color, 2000)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Once again, the catch is that this collection has only been announced for Japan. If there are any updates regarding a local release or online pre-orders, we’ll provide an update.<\/p>\n

In some related news, during the local Partner Direct, Konami announced a new Super Bomberman Collection<\/a> and it’s available now on the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n

Would you be interested in this Goemon collection? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re a fan of the Goemon and Mystical Ninja series, there was a rather exciting 40th anniversary…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":569650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[74762,247853,60991,247852,170,104142,2468,158,67,132,5803,68],"class_list":["post-569649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-anniversaries","tag-famicom","tag-game-boy","tag-goemon","tag-japan","tag-konami","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-upcoming-releases","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116021735309345826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}