HAMSTER returns to double releases next week with a football sequel for Neo Geo and one of the most revered TATE shmups of yore from Nichibutsu.
With World Cup fever already rising on the horizon, this upcoming release of Super Sidekicks 2: The World Championship could not come at a better time. This sequel improves on the original in many ways and will provide Switch owners a more arcade-oriented World Cup experience to the impending FIFA 18 free update. True, EA's game will deliver a more realistic experience, but what other game lets you suplex your opponents to the ground (strangely making Super Sidekicks 2 the best wrestling game on Switch right now).
As if upcoming releases of Gunbird 2 and little-known indie niche shmup Ikaruga were not enough reasons to be a happy shmup loving Switch owner, HAMSTER decides to spoil us with another true classic from one of Japan's most revered software houses. Nichibutsu's 1985 TATE masterpiece Terra Cresta, a revolutionary sequel to the prior 1980 hit Moon Cresta will put you in control of the fragile but nimble Winger as you take down both air and ground targets.
Both games will be available on the Switch eShop on the 10th May for the regular $7.99/€6.99/£6.29 price point. Will you be kicking balls and/or shooting 1985 pixels next week on your Nintendo Switch? Tells us all in the comments below...
[source japanesenintendo.com, via japanesenintendo.com]
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Excited for both!
Terra Cresta, brings back memories of the 80s arcade for me. Day one.
Will they release Moon Cresta soon?
Hamster really killing it with these arcade classics. Little programming cost (since they have the main emulator built) and high returns...
Terra Cresta, I finally get to play the arcade version!
yup all the retro soccer games under the sun. Who needs Fifa?
If the good SNK games like this are on the 30th Anniversary Collection too, I’ll be pished.
I remember playing Terra Cresta in a local arcade. Very fun game
Delightful double helping of Arcade fun. Will gladly be buying both 🙌
Terra Cresta made me the shmup fan that stands humbly before you today. I can't believe we meet again so many decades later, on the best console ever made.
These classic arcade ports are better than virtual console. Not only better but also priced better. Love them all
From what I have seen Super Sidekicks 2 looks noticeably better than the original, there is also Super Sidekicks 3 remaining but it seems to look about the same.
@1UP_MARIO Yeah exactly. As someone who milked the virtual console on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS, the ACA games for Switch are exactly what I am looking for.
Another strong month in Switch Shmup history.
Still, M2STG needs to get on board. Maybe M2 will finally understand when their Sega Ages series sells truckloads, particularly Thunder Force IV.
I GOT A FEVER...AND THE ONLY CURE IS Super Sidekicks 2: The World Championship! Happy weekend ppl!!
Hmm... Terra Cresta.
I'd rather have Moon Cresta over Terra Cresta.
Super Sidekicks 2 is probably in my top 15-20 games of all time. I could not walk past the arcade cabinet without throwing in a coin. Must have spent HUNDREDS on it.
I’m yet to purchase one of these Hamster Neo Geo releases, but I don’t think I can resist this one.
2 things:
-Nintendo’s US website shows Terra Cresta as already released on 5/1
-I WANT MOON CRESTA!!!! 😊😃
I'll be buying Terra Cresta, now we need Xevious !
@techdude moon cresta... great shout out, my stepdad used to have that game in his livingroom in the form of a glass tabletop cabinet in the 90s. i would pick that up on switch in a heartbeat.
I could see me passing a lot of time with Super Sidekicks 2 on the go.
I mean, I probably already have on various MAME-compaitble handhelds, but I'd gladly do it again on a bigger screen.
2018.
people still play this old poo:
its kinda sad if you're over age 36, and still play 27 year old games( imo. no offence)
there are actualy not that good, its all about youth sentiment.
replay value starts at 3d gaming rather then 800kb arcade games.
they where great, but now they hurt my ears and eyes.
and then those ridiculious prices.......
but i don't interfere.
enjoy if you like
@techdude @gamermole
well im actualy that old. i was 17 around that period.
but then there was a time, i saw how short and simple these games are. similar sprites divided by different colors, always the same moves highly predictable.
when i realized this, i could not play them any more. i can play games from the xbox, gc, and ps2 period in HD. those games are way better, and have a better value dor your money.
come on are you willing to pay $10 for these old games? you should be playing them for free, since they are over-emulated and free to download. so why do you want to pay ridicilious fee to play this on the 2017's nintendo switch.
i heard somebody say "i want to play xevious" , what the hell man!?
are you sitting alone in your dusty house(curtains closed) no girlfriend, surrounded by old computers?
@PALversusNTSC
are you sitting alone playing xbox, ps2 games?
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