Action Shooter Radical Radial Joins Hamster's Arcade Archives Series

So when are we going to get the better arcade offerings like Chase HQ, Turtles in Time or Marvel vs Capcom 2?

A lot of these Hamster game choices seem absolutely baffling to me. Forgive my ignorance if Hamster games, like today's, were big deals somewhere or at some time. I'm just like, ?????????????

Forgive me Doolan for sounding negative. I still appreciate the NL news updates

@GameOtaku I wonder where those games are too. I wonder if licensing for Turtles & Marvel are why they haven't been released.

I would like to see Radikal BIkers(1998). I remember it at Hatteras Island, NC back in 2007. It might not have aged well, but I want it. Maybe someone that likes today's Hamster game can tell me Radikal Bikers sucks
https://youtu.be/P3Ivg4RvMjM?t=116

...........And, Super Monaco GP(arcade), Crazy Taxi.

Kind of a whatever release that I probably won't bother with. Still waiting on Sunset Riders.

@WoomyNNYes Yeah I would love to see them focus on more 90's arcade classics. By now I have about all the 80's era arcade games that I could ever want and unless you're someone who grew up with 80's arcades chances are you won't be too big on these games anymore. They got most of the big classics out by now that they can get the license for so it's just been getting really obscure as time goes on. The 90's was my main era for arcade gaming so it's not like I have any nostalgia for most of these old 80's games anyways.

Hey, I played this at a classic gaming competition about 10 years ago...I'm not a fan. I'd rather play Moon Shuttle, and I don't like that one either.

@GameOtaku @WoomyNNYes The answer is always licensing. In this case Nickelodeon and Konami for Turtles. For Marvel, on top of licensing, I'm not even sure HAMSTER is up to emulating NAOMI hardware. It would need to be reworked from the ground up like last gen, or like Zero Gunner 2 from this gen (and even that had issues).

@masterLEON Did I read that right? Crazy Taxi record holder? That's cool as hell!

Edit: If I wanted Crazy Taxi for PS2 or Gamecube, do you recommend one over the other? ("neither" is an acceptable answer, too)

@WoomyNNYes Thanks! Um, I'll have to say neither on those. Dreamcast over any of those because it's the closest to the arcade (even moreso with the VGA adapter, though S-Video was still great otherwise), and it also had Crazy Taxi 2. For what it's worth, Xbox had Crazy Taxi 1 and Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller (but that was kind of a hot mess).

If people want only the 90’s arcade classics, that’s not what Hamster is strictly supplying. They appropriately called their brand ‘Arcade Archives’. Call on the publishers themselves to put out more ‘Namco Classics Collection’ style offerings.

I'm all for games preservation, but a lot of these Hamster offerings are tough for me to justify plunking down $8 US for. Now if somebody would offer up SNK's Viewpoint or pretty much any of Sega's arcade titles from across their history (Zaxxon, Congo Bongo, Star Wars Arcade, and pretty much any and all of their Model 2/3 coin-ops), I'd definitely be interested.

I'd buy it for a dollar...

@GameOtaku
Asking for games based on licenses is mostly fruitless, but looking at how we recently got In The Hunt (great game!), i think we can hope for more 90's games soon.

@WoomyNNYes
I don't know about Crazy Taxi in particular, but looking at other Dreamcast/Naomi games that got ported to both GameCube and PS2, the GameCube versions are usually better.

Boring. Not gonna sugarcoat it in the least. But the majority of these "masterpieces" are ones I would have never sank a single quarter into if I passed by them in an arcade. Where's Sunset Riders like we were told we were getting??? Why can't The Simpson's or TMNT arcade games get a second life on the Switch? Or Altered Beast, even.

Looking at the main screenshot, my first thought was to channel my inner Barry Burton with a "what is this?"

But the point of Arcade archives seems to be to release classics AND obscure titles most people had forgotten. I'm ok with that, as much as I would love to see more '90s games. I don't think we'll be seeing any licensed games like Star Wars Trilogy or TMNT, though. Too expensive.

I checked this game out on YouTube yesterday, and it looks to share some game mechanics with Bump 'n Jump. Looking forward to playing this later today:)

I’m interested. I may add it, at some point.

Honestly, I’m glad that Hamster is digging so deeply into arcade’s past, instead of releasing obvious classics. So many of these games have never seen the light of day, and it is sort of cool to find out just how big the arcade industry was back then. This also gives me hope that Kangaroo will one day see release.

1983 was the year of the great video game crash and we can see why some titles may be best forgotten. I grew up in the arcades in the early 80s and i don’t recognize half of these Hamster releases.

@Banjopickles : We can only hope. Radical Radial is pretty cool, just downloaded it. If you like Bump 'n Jump, you should check it out.

@KnightRider666

Have you ever youtubed obscure arcade games from the 1980's? It's mind-boggling! I'm really hoping that they continue to release a few games every month, because there is so much left in the tank.

What I would like to do, at some point, is just go on a buying spree and check out a bunch of games that I had never heard of.

@Banjopickles : I have every single arcade archives game on the switch. I have some ACA titles, but not all of them. I'm waiting for those to be on sale, but eventually I will have them all as well. I will YouTube it, thanks.