Arcade Archives Sky Skipper
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"Sky Skipper" is a shooting action game released in 1981 by Nintendo. Dodge enemy attacks and counterattack with your bombs! Get even more points by saving the right combination of 4 animals! Don't forget to go and replenish your fuel when you run low.
The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.
© 1981 Nintendo Arcade Archives Series Produced by HAMSTER Co.
Reviews 1
Nintendo Life said:
There are already a number of Hi-Score chasers on Switch, but Arcade Archives Sky Skipper has gained attention because it's such a rare title. It's an early game too, and it shows in the visuals which feature some good (albeit small) character sprites, but stages that at times look not so much stylishly retro as hideously basic. Gameplay is simple but not massively varied. It doesn't get dull, however, and there's certainly fun to be found in striking a balance between completing the levels quickly and plotting a route to maximise your point-scoring; online leaderboards add to the replayability. It's not quite the lost classic some would have you believe, but Arcade Archives Sky Skipper can still entertain with its animal-rescuing, gorilla-bombing shenanigans.
6/10
User Reviews 1
JJtheTexan said:
Sky Skipper is not a good game. It's not much fun. It's weird, but not in a charming way. It's also pretty boring! But it's absolutely worth buying and playing a few times, strictly for its historic value and as a curiosity from Nintendo's past.
It's difficult to put Sky Skipper in any single genre. You control a small airplane, but it's not a shoot-'em-up. You are battling giant gorilla-dog creatures, but it's not a platformer. You are collecting playing cards, but it's not a card or gambling game. It's just an "action" game, but with awkward controls and unclear objectives. The closest comparison would probably be Namco's Sky Kid.
Given the game's history and extreme rarity, I applaud Nintendo for handing over the Sky Skipper ROM to Hamster for distribution and preservation. I just wish Nintendo would do this with more of its arcade titles.
Buy it, download it, play it! Maybe you'll like it. It's definitely worth the history lesson, and what might have been had Nintendo not pivoted from arcades to the Famicom.
5/10
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