Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 19th, 2018. Tomorrow will see a whole bunch of new releases, but today we’ve just got a little bit of news and a handful of new sales for you. To help top off the mug of cocoa, I’ve also put together a mini-review of Horizon Chase Turbo. Let’s race to the finish!
Mini-Review: ‘Horizon Chase Turbo’ ($19.99)

SwitchArcade Recommended!
Horizon Chase is a name that ought to be familiar with most regular readers. It’s a fantastic homage to racers of the 1980s and 1990s that worked amazingly well with touch controls. Horizon Chase Turbo is an expanded version of that game, adding in new features, extra content, better visuals, and the more traditional controls that come with being on hardware with standard sticks and buttons. While much of the game is similar to the mobile version, there are enough new things here that even veterans of that initial release might want to bite on it. If you haven’t played Horizon Chase before, the basic idea here is to roll back to the days of when racing games were all about bright colors, made-up cars, nitro-fueled victories, and pumping original tunes. At first glance, it’s easy to compare it to SEGA’s Out Run, but it’s really more like Gremlin’s Top Gear series of 16-bit racers in practice. You’ll travel from location to location, trying to finish each race with the highest possible rank position. ...