Another Sunsoft Game Joins The Arcade Archives On Nintendo Switch

I love games that are set "in places"

"Will you try it out?"
No.

@Yanina
You mean palaces? Your comment is the only mention of "places" on this page.

@Toy_Link Ah! My fault. Makes a lit more sense now.

Hamster are doing amazing work. Never played Arabian (never ever seen it in an arcade lol) so I'll grab this at some point.

When this was announced, I thought it was referring to Arabian Fight and was like, "HELL YES, that was a wicked beat-'em-up!" https://youtu.be/TDMCcbn1CKg

Called "Tales of the Arabian Nights" on CPC

I confess that I blurt-sang 🎶Araaabiaaaan Niiiiiiight!🎶 the instant I saw the title screen. Out loud. Well, I’ve never played this, not that I can recall, so I might check it out!

Still haven't seen anything about the games they announced a while back that I actually wanted to play.

I had this on Commodore 64 had cool Gorf like digitised speech. I’ve played this in the arcade remember it being easy up until level 3 where you ascend moving platforms.

Would love Sega Ages Arabian Fight as Mame can’t emulate it properly. It’s almost unplayable on Mame

@JayJ That's what they always do: they announce a batch of games, before they all are released they announce another batch and start releasing games of this second batch, and sometimes they even sneak an unannounced one in the middle, so they will come at some point, but it's certainly confusing.

I played this in a bowling ally when I was a kid, and I had no idea what I was supposed to do.

Aaaand I've just finished the CPC version. Seems like it's a bit different to the arcade version

Arabian is actually a decent game, but in the grand scheme of things is just another lame asset grab and 'arcade release' so they can reach their magic number.

@Shadow_Dancer it's part of Sega Astro City Mini so i'm glad about that, and it was playable for me on MAME, i played on PC, maybe thats why?

Yes! I enjoyed this one as a kid!

@Sabrewing same here. We may still get that one too at some point

While not every game is a classic, I very much appreciate that Hamster are bringing back all these old games. I have lots of them on my wishlist and only a few of them ever seem to be on sale. I'd love to splurge out but ideally I want 50% off if I'm going to buy 30 or 40 titles.

@Juga
Me too. I'd forgotten about it. Be fun to play it again.

Geez, I played this a lot at Chuck E. Cheese in 1983-1984 when the lines for Mario Bros. were too long. I'm definitely getting this.

@GrailUK if I’m not mistaken I believe Atari published the arcade game in the USA. They had a deal with Sunsoft back then which included games like Kangaroo and I could swear I saw it once but didn’t try it.

This game is awesome. I like the way it gives you the option to collect the vases in order for more points, or just grab them and blow through the level. Never had the pleasure of playing this back in the day. Sun Electronics has some more gems in their backlog to be released.