Banjo Kazooie, Tooie on their way to Xbox Live

Destructoid has the scoop on the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) versions of beloved Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie and it’s sequel, Banjo-Tooie. Banjo-Kazooie, which comes free with a pre-order of the upcoming Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, will be available to download on November 26, 2008, shortly after the 360 game launches.

Tooie will be coming at some point in 2009 – though it would behoove MS to get it out fairly soon, in order to catch the presumptive BK tidal wave. Both games will go for 1200 MS points.

Confession time – Banjo-Kazooie is one of my favorite platformers ever. Really, ever. In my humble little opinion, it’s right up there with some of Mario‘s finest adventures. It just had so much atmosphere and real variety to the gameplay, and I really liked the progression of abilities and Mumbo “transformations”. I loved the sequel too, but like D-toid writer Chad Concelmo, I think it was perhaps a little too ambitious for its own good. Still loved it though.

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