Review: Snow Bros. Nick & Tom Special

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For whatever reasons, Snow Bros. rented space in my brain as a youth. I think a cabinet was only briefly available in my hometown’s hockey arena, but a brief sight of it was enough to get me itching for more time with it. Why were the longest-running cabinets in that arena Altered Beast and Pang? I wanted to find a home version of it, but the only one I would have had access to was for the NES, and my family traded ours away when I was very young.

That doesn’t mean much, though. Like many kids, I was stupid. However, it still resulted in a lasting soft spot for Snow Bros. Not enough to play the mobile titles that have come along since, but enough that when Snow Bros. Nick & Tom Special was announced, it caught my attention. However, years of less-than-fantastic arcade revivals have left me rather cynical, and, okay, maybe I was expecting the worst. Whether or not it’s actually successful is probably going to come down to what you expect from such a return.

Snow Bros. Nick & Tom Special (Switch)Developer: TOAPLANPublisher: Daewon MediaReleased: May 19, 2022MSRP: $19.99

It’s a pretty simple formula. Snow Bros. is often compared to Bubble Bobble. You’re playing as normal humans who have been turned into freaks. In this case, snowmen. Instead of bubbles, you have to cover your enemies in snow, then roll them into the other enemies. It’s single screen and extremely basic, which makes it a strong little quarter-muncher.

So, why not just do an Arcade Archive release? Good question. For Snow Bros. Nick & Tom Special, the graphics have been reworked and the number of levels has been upped from 50 to 80. That may seem significant, but even though the levels are laid out differently, they’re all functionally the same. There are