Turok is coming to Nintendo Switch in March

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, a cult classic N64 shooter, is coming to the Nintendo Switch soon.

Here's a surprise. It seems that Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this month.

Developer Nightdive Studios (the studio behind the upcoming System Shock remake) had previously suggested that they would be interested in bringing Turok to the Nintendo Switch. At the time, nobody put much stock into the statements. Actually, most people just guessed that they were casually wishing for their game to come to the Switch the way that so many of us wish for games to come to the Nintendo Switch.

That all changed today, though, when Nightdive's remastered version ofTurok appeared on Nintendo's website. According to that site, this port of the game is set to be released on March 18. There's no word regarding whether or not the remastered version of Turok 2 will also be ported to the Nintendo Switch, but it seems logical that one might follow the other.

It's only right that Turok return to a Nintendo console. The original version of the game was released for the N64 not long after the console's debut. While most N64 gamers would spend most of that year playing Goldeneye 007, Turok did beat that revolutionary first-person shooter to the punch and showed gamers everywhere that the N64's technology was capable of supporting a first-person shooter that was at least comporable to the revolutionary PC titles of the time.

As for how Turok has aged over the years...well, that's up for debate. The game's unique setting and stranger elements make it easy to love, but this is a 1997 console first-person shooter we're talking about. Even the mightyGoldeneye hasn't aged that well. The first-person shooter genre has moved on from the era of bad puzzles, questionable action, and ill-informed platforming elements that Turok embodies.

Still, it's one of the few games where you fight a dinosaur that shoots lasers out of its eyes, so it's not like we can't completely write-off this beloved title or fault anyone who looks forward to having it on Switch.