During the same livestream which announced Super Punch-Out!! and VS. Baseball, it was also revealed that three Seibu Kaihatsu titles are also joining Hamster's Arcade Archives range.
The first titles to come to the series – which recently reached 100 games on the eShop – will be platformer Wiz (1985), belt-scrolling fighter Zero Team (1993), and the legendary Raiden (1990).
The first two games are rather obscure, but vertically-scrolling shooter Raiden is perhaps the most famous of all of the company's games, and has survived the collapse of Seibu Kaihatsu to see sequels right the way up to the present day.
Hamster hasn't revealed any solid release dates for these titles. Here's some footage of all three in action:
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Give me Super Dodgeball Neogeo please. Arc System Works, Hamster. DOOO IT!
Thank God for Raiden. This is honestly the biggest announcement of the year for me.
Zero team is absolutely brilliant, another arcade gem.
Thank you HAMSTER for Raiden! That's one less game I have to drag out my Jaguar to play.
I hope this is the start to seeing the Raiden Fighter Aces Collection being released. The cancelled EU release on X360 still annoys me and the iPhone release was initially terrible and subsequently patched to “barely tolerable”.
Ohhh yes! Day one buy for me.
HAMSTER ABSOLUTELY ROCK!!!
Before arcades were required to have a Time Crisis, they were required to have a Raiden machine.
Feels like it was ported to every 16-bit console as well.
@FX102A I hate the touch-drag controls on iOS / Android. Totally ruins the game.
Wow Hamster is kicking ass this week!!! Raiden is an absolute classic and stands right next to Sunset Riders as an important title in the hamster lineup!!! Day 1 whenever it hits! Maybe soon I can disconnect my Genesis?? Nahhhh! ☺️
I have actually scanned through Zero Team, and it does support up to 4 players simultaneous. Also be aware that there are several revisions of "Zero Team". There is a configuration that you can set 2 or 4 players.
Nice I welcome more game supports for HAMSTER, glad we got Raiden and Zero Team coming. Now if only NetherRealm Studio and Warner Bros. supports and give us the Mortal Kombat arcade games too that would be excellent.
I have often found myself using the term 'Day 1' on here for games that I subsequently buy a while later when on sale, but Raiden is a legitimate day 1 purchase. I will never tire of that game.
@sixrings agreed. Maybe we will see more raiden...
Zero Team! Wow! I’ll take them all!
Growing up a huge Atari arcade shooting games fan in the 70’s and 80’s (with a little Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man & Dig Dug to relax), Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden/Raiden II/Raiden DX are the STGs that I played the most in the 1990s. Tight controls and great but relatively simple play mechanics and scoring (vs Eighting/Raizing and CAVE STGs), original arcade Raiden is still a favorite for it’s graphic style and overall consistent gameplay/challenge. High quality arcade STG music/sfx brings so much atmosphere to games from Toaplan and Seibu Kaihatsu: the in stage, end stage and game over music from Seibu K’s Raiden are all little gems of melodies. I eagerly await Raiden from ACA Arcade Archives! Hopefully Raiden II or DX or both will follow!
yes, raiden, yes, finally, yes
And almost a year later.....
Zero team what an amazing belt scroller, a hidden gem from the arcade!!
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