Ah. The year is 2006, and I\u2019m foraying into videogames for the first time via peering over my sister\u2019s shoulder while she plays. I watch as she loads up a website with a bunch of cute animal cartoons on it, and beg my parents to let me play, too. I am, of course, five years old, so I\u2019m too young for now, but soon I will know the trials and tribulations of Neopia, and so will all of you. Really, it was the big three back in the day: Club Penguin, Webkinz, and of course, Neopets. While many of us played two or three of them, some were among the few to die on the Neopets hill, and, well, it turns out they may have been onto something: only one has stood the test of time. Only one has a real game coming out in the year of our lord 2026. Only one will ever see the Nintendo Switch. Neopets: Mega Mini Games Collection has won the battle.<\/p>\n
While Club Penguin came to a sad and crashing halt, and Webkinz has mostly fallen off into the realms of irrelevance, Neopets stays culturally relevant with the March 26, 2026, release of Neopets: Mega Mini Games Collection on a number of different platforms and in both digital and physical versions. The game will feature 25 (or 26 in the digital version) classic minigames – you can check out which minigames made the cut here.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not all, though, as the game will have a full map of Neopia to explore with your pets, a local co-op mode, and seasonal events – plus, there\u2019ll be a ton of lore to uncover in story mode. Though it\u2019s called \u2018mini games collection\u2019, there\u2019s more to be found, so for long-time fans of the game, or even those just looking to revisit the era of choosing between the Internet and the landline phone, it\u2019ll be a treat.<\/p>\n