Irem Arcade Classics Kid Niki, Youjuu-Den And Moon Patrol Heading To Switch

You know I love my Irem.

More retro arcade games can't be a bad thing.

Of course!

Moon Patrol!

R-Type! we need our R-Type fix!!!

@Shiryu It can get to the back of the queue! Double Dragon was here first!

Sweetness!

I thought it was Dragonball. I swear they have that pose from Goku, i felt it in my subconsciousness😂😂.

Unrelated but, if Konami could just bring all the Gradius games to the Switch, that would be lovely!

@RazumikhinPG Gradius has been announced for ACA PS4, so fingers crossed on that one...

why does that look like Goku?

I need the regular ACA releases to be weekly like the Neo Geo ones!

@Shiryu I got Pulstar to hold me over during the wait for R-Type. I highly recommend it.

With all these classic coin ops and some quality pinball, my Switch is starting out to look like my own personal Arcade!

@audiobrainiac Oh trust me, I know.

@GrailUK Double Dragon is not made by Irem, tho.

@JoakimZ Ah fair point, but they are both Hamster Arcade Archives however. R-Type got announced and hasn't shown up yet. Double Dragon got announced, made it on to the coming soon eshop page and then disappeared. So yeah, I think Double Dragon arcade archive gets first dibs lol

@Xcape_DuCkMAN_X Which Pinball game do you have? I think Pinball video games are the genre I can happily admit I know nothing about.

Moon Patrol is classic

Moon Patrol? Holy hell!
I've been wanting a port of Moon Patrol for years now.
Been thinking about it this week actually since I just got my Hori arcade stick in and have been playing nothing but Neo Geo games and Psikyo STGs.
Now bring on Terra Cresta, Amidar, Crush Roller and Xevious!

@WaveBoy Bruh, What about thousands and thousands?

Nice additions. The IREM game I’d most like to see on Switch is “In the Hunt.” The action is unusually slow-paced for a 2D shooter of its era, but I always found it absorbing and challenging.

I used to love playing Kid Niki on arcade at the local laundry mat when I was a kid.

MOON PATROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guy on the picture above looks like a weird Goku rip off.

MOON PATROL!!!!! ANOTHER HOPE I HAD FOR THE ARCADE ARCHIVES COMES TRUE LOLWTF

Instabuy for me... loved the HELL out of that game back in the day, and I didn't even REALIZE it was from IREM. Mini Direct and this news combined, my life is blown right now... I can't even think.

Didn't play Kid Niki, but I've heard good things. It looks entertaining to say the least, so I'll likely scoop that up.

Never even heard of Youjuu-Den, but I see it's two player and likely simultaneously at that. Reminds me of a fantasy Ikari Warriors, and that's ok in my book.

I think I may actual go broke spending more money on the arcade classics than the new games on Switch, ayaiyai...

@GrailUK Have you not tried the free table on Pinball FX 3?Highly recommended! It's more fantasy pinball than real life but that makes it more fun

Hate to post twice, but... I now know that almost any arcade game within reason is fair game now. I have to now expand my "hope" list a bit:

Karnov
Rampage (Midway... someone... anyone... please)
Q*bert (please... whoever just, please...)
Donkey Kong arcade (my ultimate hope)

Kid Niki! An arcade port after all these years! Man, I used to play this after school back in Junior High. I loved fighting that (1st?) boss who's face plumps up and blows air out of his nostrils like Thunder did from Big Trouble in Little China.

We had Kid Nikki for apple IIe when we were kids, and it was a terrible port, but we played it all the same. Im a big arcade enthusiast and have only seen the arcade cab for it once a long time ago, so i cant wait to get it for Switch.

Pass, pass, pass.

@MeloMan Q*bert Rebooted is on Playstation 4 and contains the original but somehow the developers managed to mess it up with bad controls and really long load times. That game existing unfortunately might prevent Hamster from being able to port the original. Karnov probably has a good chance of appearing though as we've been getting other Data East games. Rampage would be superb.

Donkey Kong surely has to be an eventual release. I was surprised it wasn't included with the other confirmed Nintendo arcade titles.

Yes more classic arcade goodness, thank you HAMSTER. Hopefully they get some Namco, Taito, Sega, and Konami games in there too.

@OorWullie I genuinely did not know there was a demo! I'll check it out. Thanks mate

Moon Patrol... Pretty sure I used to play this on our C64! Wow.

Moon Patrol - a terrific runner-type game! I used to play the Atari 2600 version....

Moon Patrol will be a day-one download for me!

@GrailUK its Stern Pinball Arcade. Even though its free, it comes with one table, Frankenstein. They got two bundles for $20 each, or you can get individual tables at various prices. Had to get Ghostbusters!

Hmmm...idea for a forum game. Arcade Archive bingo?

now lets get ninja baseball batman, blade master and undercover cops mr irem...
you guys like moons you say?
ive got a moon for you all.

@GrailUK If you can think of a way to make that work I'll take part .

Would be interesting if irem brings Kid Nikki 3 (Also known from it's romhack, as super mario 14)

I really enjoyed that famicon platformer.

That's one radical ninja!

@Shiryu so cool

@GrailUK 😝

was the Japan only NES/Famicon games Kid Niki 2 and 3 also arcade games first?

Wow, who knew there was greenery on the moon?

@RazumikhinPG Not just announced-- Gradius, Salamander/Life Force, and Gradius 2 are actually out on PS4. Since they're finally opening the gates on non-Nintendo arcade stuff, I'm pretty sure Hamster will be bringing those, Thunder Cross, Contra, etc over from Konami. It may just be a year or two before we get them at the rate they're trickling out.

@meppi I'm honestly still a bit surprised and annoyed at how many Namco classics DIDN'T make it into Namco Museum for Switch. Xevious should have been a lock in.

@Firehawke That's awesome! The Salamander games are probably my favourite. Nice

Seriously, just give Hamster it's own tab in the eshop at this point.

Moon Patrol! I too played the Atari 2600 version all the time.

Moon Patrol for sure.

@Firehawke Yeah, that was very disappointing.
Xevious is one of my favourite STGs ever since playing it to death in the arcade back when it came out.
It was one of the games that they pretty much ported to every single system and yet it's not on their Namco Museum for Switch.
I'm hoping they will do another...

Also I really want Elevator Action on my Switch!
It came out on the PS4 under the arcade archives label, so it's hopefully just a matter of time.

Hamster really, really needs to get their priorities straight with the Irem games and release R-Type Leo.