This Just In: Week of July 9, 2026
This Just In: Week of July 9, 2026
The other white meat.
Video game history buffs: Can you identify the common thread that runs through this week’s This Just In update? Have a good look at the header image above and give it a good hard think.
Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return: Special Edition: Classic Edition
This middle-tier offering of Tomba! 2 brings the long-out-of-print PlayStation classic back into print and then cheekly bundles it into a box that looks like a PlayStation game case. But it isn’t a PlayStation game! At least the copy that we’ve reviewed and approved to hit the warehouse for shipping. No, this is a Nintendo Switch game. But you’ll be happy to know that it plays great on Switch despite being sandwiched by PlayStation legacies.
In addition to the standard Switch edition of Tomba! 2, with the case and cart and booklet, the Classic Edition also includes a Steelbook that you can pop the Switch cart into in order to spruce up the shelves where you display or games. Or, if you’re the incredibly disorganized type, it’ll help protect your game when you misplace it in a pile of clutter on the floor for a year or two.
The Classic Edition also includes a two-disc CD set containing the game’s soundtrack, as well as a double-sided poster that does a pretty good job of laying out the world of Tomba! 2 for convenient reference. It’s a big ol’ world full of mood-altering mushrooms! It helps to take a map.
Also in hand this week, we have four of the five cover variants produced for Capcom Arcade Stadium. That may seem like a lot of covers, but there are way more than four games in this collection, so honestly you have to admire our sense of restraint.
The Final Fight cover is not accounted for quite yet (or maybe it just didn’t make its way to the post-review bin quite yet?), but everything else is: Strider! Captain Commando! Ghouls ’N Ghosts! And, of course, Capcom Arcade Stadium’s Busytown-style collage art. Note that the interior contents of all four editions are identical—these are variant covers, not variant discs. We wouldn’t be that cruel to you completionists.
So, did you figure it out? That’s right: this week’s posts were dominated by the work of Tokuro Fujiwara, the former Capcom designer who created the art for (and often directed) games like Ghouls ’N Ghosts and Strider, both of which appear as feature covers for Capcom Arcade Stadium. Then he founded Whoopee Camp and designed the Tomba! games. How’s about that.