Looks Like We Can Expect More Classic Arcade Titles On Switch From Zerodiv

Zero Gunner 2! That game was awesome on the Dreamcast even though only released in Japan. I loved it rotating game mechanic for 360 degree aiming.

Basically release both Zero Gunners and all 3 Strikers games including Strikers 1999 that never was released outside of arcades.

Please!

Any. Just get em on the Switch!
If Zero Gunner 2 arrives I will be ecstatic!

Gimme them all! All!

Strikers 1999!

Superb.I'm really enjoying both Gunbarich and Strikers 1945.I wasn't really familiar with this dev until yesterday but now I am and I want more.I wonder if they'll bring their erotic Mahjong games that they're also famous for

No idea what most of those games are, but if they're on the Switch, I'll probably give them a chance.

Oh this is great news! Sengoku Blade is my favorite!

Bring them all on! I do want to see Gunbird 2, Sengoku Blade, and Zero Gunner 2 arrive sooner.

While we're at it, I hope CAVE is considering porting their titles to the Switch. Let's turn the Switch into another shmup machine like the XBox 360!

Well up for more arcade titles , strikers was awesome

I WANT IT ALL! AND I WANT IT NOW!!! R.I.P. Freddie lol

Battle K-Road. We need more fighting games on Switch to justify those arcade sticks.

Gunbird 1 and 2 would be great.

Its the only thing we can EXPECT at this point.

I dont see any important third party support by now or "AAA" game... only a series of "MAYBE" "WE MAKE CONSIDERATIONS" "LETS SEE" "IN THE FUTURE" ....rubbish.

Zero gunner 2 is a classic still play it on the Dreamcast . I would buy it for the switch especially if they did a physical release but I don't think there is much chance . Cannon spike is developed by psikyo but published by Capcom would love to see it on the switch

Nice, I was delightfully impressed with Strikers 1945.

@CorvoRevo

It is all I ever expected and the reason I also own a PS4. But I honestly find it refreshing as for me the current batch of "AAA" games from the big publishers are totally uninspired, loot crate infested cash grabs!

Edit: I only use my PS4 for the Sony console exlcusives like Uncharted, Last of Us, Bloodborne and Street Fighter V by the way. As I said I am tired of the vast majority of "AAA" third party games.

@GrailUK border down?

@kobashi100 No, that was a great game tho The one I am thinking of was literally a versus game, arena as opposed to scrolling.

Sweetness! I was rooting around their website yesterday trying to find out this exact news.

It's so funny, earlier on I thought to myself: man, someone needs to bring psykio arcade games to switch ( I was playing a lot of strikers 1945 on name)

Strikers 1945 III is my favorite of the bunch. I think it was the best one. In fact, I registered my interest in buying the arcade cabinet from a business that just pulled one out of a shut down restaurant.

I'm just loving all the coin op software switch has been seeing. Capcom needs to come with their beatemups and shmups!

I would love to see the Switch become a virtual arcade, covering the entire spectrum of the history! Games like Pac Man/Ms. (Namco Museum), Outrun, Q-Bert, Atari's arcade lineage, Defender, Tapper, Gauntlet, and even licensed arcades like The Simpsons, TMNT, X-Men, etc. (why not? they were released on PSN and XBLA)! Also, it would be nice to finally see Nintendo recognize their own arcade roots with pitch perfect ports of Donkey Kong/Jr., Punch Out/Super, Arm Wrestling, Sheriff, Radarscope, Popeye (licensing issues be damned), Sky Skipper, Space Firebird (a Galaga clone which I would love to play), etc. Also, let's bring some of the last of the arcade classics home with Soul Caliber, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Cybersled, Crazy Taxi, etc.

@BanjoPickles amen to that. I'd love to have every great arcade game on one system that can be portable or thrown up on my big screen TV.

Ready to support anything they release!

@kobashi100 My bad it was an Xbox 360 game called Senko No Ronde Phew.

I want space giraffe and polybius by Jeff minter- please please please.

Psikyo had some great stuff, so I'm looking forward to most anything they got, really.

There's a lesson to be learnt here Sega. Start releasing your Old School Arcades

All! I will buy them all!

@Gerald They are, through the SEGA Forever app that didnt have the best of launches on phones.

That would be neat if they got a regular schedule like the Neo Geo line up. Maybe not every week as I dunno if they have the resources to do that, but with that, Neo Geo and indie games every week, we could have some very packed weeks ahead of us.

Virtual Console who? XD

All the classic games from companies and not a Nintendo one in sight to make money on their own console.

I don't really know any arcade game companies (well, besides Namco, lol), I just know the games. I dunno who makes the Raiden games, but maybe some of those will show up.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Would prefer it if they released the games on Switch, and from what I've heard, the Sega Forever emulations are awful. Plus they haven't released any Arcade games, i think mostly Megadrive games, not that there's anything wrong with that, but I am hoping for games like Outrun, Turbo Outrun, Power Drift, Afterburner, Space-harrier, all of AM2's back catalogue etc.
Wouldn't mind if Taito and Atari started also, for games like Chase HQ, Rainbow Islands, Original Star Wars, Operation Wolf etc.

Switch: the place of ports and old games..

@koekiemonster It's a good thing to have a portable version of these games. It's because people like you obsessed with high budget AAA that the Vita was an undeserved failure.

@koekiemonster and GotY. Don't forget GotY

@CptProtonX You are officially my spirit animal or something cause that was a great comment. xD

Can we get some love from Treasure over here? I want Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga.

Tate mode and pro controller. Switch is an arcade machine you can take anywhere!

@Gerald From what I hear, they updated the emulation issues from launch. I can't speak for myself since I have an old phone.

They said Saturn and Dreamcast would eventually come, so I'd imagine arcade would be an option too. They're also planning to bring Japan Only games and translating them, for example Girl's Garden will be released on it. They said they'd be open for console versions as well.

Its early days, but hopefully they can stick with it and let it grow into a SEGA Heaven.

Never heard of any of them...

@CptProtonX Amen.

@Mando44646 Me neither.

hoping someone brings the Arcade Archieves catalog over

@SBandy Ehi dude, you living the dream, Nintendo + Sony exclusives...its an amazing gaming way.

Zero gunner 2 for sure

@bitleman I love my Vita. So don’t judge ok?

Just pointing the facts.

@FX102A Yes! Glad this is the first comment - I'd pay good money for Zero Gunner 2, such a great game...

Shame Dragon Blaze never seems to get any recognition.

Well the sequel to Strikers would be fine and also Gunbird. But this developer aside I'm very interested in 19xx War Against the Destiny by Capcom. It was an excellent Shmup. Generally I hope we get Capcom arcade titles.

@meppi
Yea awesome shmup. totally forgot about that.

@Axlroselm
Would love to finally see Space Bomber get a home port after all those years. It's such a fun little game.
Never held any realistic hope out for that one though, but now, after seeing Gunbarich suddenly appear, I'd love to finally be able to play Space Bomber again as well.

Everyone please Psikyo.... I would practically request EVERY shoot em up to re-release.....including via the PSN, on the Sony PlayStation Vita.

Wow, Zero Gunner 2 would be awesome, but I HIGHLY doubt that it will be appearing on the Switch. That would require emulating Naomi/Dreamcast hardware and I don't think the Switch is powerful enough to do that.

I can see the Sengoku Ace games making it though. There was also a third game in the series that was only released on the PSP in Japan. Maybe we can get the whole trilogy.

@koekiemonster Coooookiiiieeeeee!! Lol 😝

@CorvoRevo well if Nintendo would think a bit more ahead they would use at least 6gb ram system memory and not 4gb. Not every company will spent time to optimize a game just for the switch console. They can get away on PS4 and Xbox One/X. So anyone to blame here is Nintendo. Or Nintedo need to pay them to make a full optimized game for their system only

@Alucard83 Lol adding 2GB of ram won't make this thing able to run big budget AAA. You don't know what you're talking about. It's all about money and target audience. There's a trend going in big budget AAA and Nintendo is outside this trend. And this is a good thing for variety. No one complain the PS4 library lack of variety because it doesn't have kart racers or smash bros like games. To each their own.

@Alucard83 6GB system ? then people start to complain why the Switch cost 350$. The system is more than ok with 4gb, many games dont need more of that (its a console not a PC)(and look Zelda BotW, on the Wii-U all the game run with only 1gb of ram). The problem is they still DONT TRUST NINTENDO, after the Wii-U. IF will be a third party support it will come 2-3 years by now, when the system sold 50+ million units or so.

Never heard of them really, were these Arcade-only titles back in the day? As they're from the same age as the Neo Geo titles, can we expect the same kind of quality?

It doesn't seem they're 1:1 emulation, but ports.

"STRIKERS 1945" looks like a sequel to Capcom's "1942" and "1943" and I enjoyed playing the series with my friends in co-op back in the day. I know "STRIKERS 1945" is a game made in 1995 inspired by "1942" from 1984, so it should be better, right? Might check it out.

As we never had PSiKYO's games on any Virtual Console I'm quite curious about their future offerings. So far it seems, they're similar to the Neo Geo, in offering mostly arcade action games from the mid-90ies.

I want all Psikyo shooters, love most of them.

The logical next step would be Gunbird.

I hope people realize that these are important releases for the future of the shmup genre on the Switch.
Companies like Treasure, GRev, Cave, HUcast and M2 are likely looking closely at how these releases are received on the Switch.

On a sidenote, i'm positively surprised by the NintendoLife staff's great knowledge of Psikyo, my respect for NL rose a lot when i read this article.