HAMSTER continues to serve up frequent classics on the Switch eShop, and this week it's releasing Arcade Archives VENDETTA. This was a Konami arcade from the early 1990s that was actually a sequel, known as Crime Fighters 2 in Japan. A couple of members of the Nintendo Life team are particularly pleased about this one.
A sidescrolling beat 'em up, you choose one of four characters for taking on a bunch of foes from the 'Dead End Gang'. The eShop conversion will support 1-4 players if you want to play it with some buddies.
It's out now in Japan - courtesy of time zones - and arrives elsewhere on 21st July priced at $7.99USD and its equivalents.
Let us know if you're planning to pick this up!
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Hulk Hogan AND Mr. T in a beat 'em up? Sold.
Holy Teenage Mutant Ninja Hulk Hogan, I want this!
I always love this game back in the arcade days as I was a big Hulk Hogan and Mr. T fan of WWF, WCW, and the Rocky movies. So glad they finally gave us this for the new generations to try.
I’m hoping Violent Storm and Metamorphic Force make it in the Archives as well
Release Revenge of Death Adder, you cowards!
Pretty please
I'll have to test this on a PC emulator first. I remember it being fun, but I also remembered Crime Fighters being good as well and when I started playing it last week, I found it absolutely terrible. Enemies were incredibly cheap and you could hardly ever pick a weapon up without it being immediately knocked out of your hand.
Well let me tell you something Mean Gene, you know man, this game used to cave my head in when I was just a little dude, but now that I got the power of ALL the little ACAmaniacs behind me man; there ain’t nothin in the world stopping me from credit spamming this one into oblivion in front of 500,000 screaming fans at the Pontiac Silverdome brother!
Simply one of the best beat em ups ever, period.
Not my favourite beat'em up, but it's a fine game.
That’s what we’ve been waiting for Konami! Hopefully the likes of mystic warriors, xexex, violent storm, metamorphic force, and gaiapolis make it on soon!
Will buy to encourage more 90s ports. And yes to mystic warriors.
day 1 game for me, !! in love with BeatThemups (BTU)
A beat 'em up classic that I wish had come to the likes of SNES and Genesis back in the day. Very happy to see it getting a proper re-release now though. Hopefully everything is in perfect order this time around.
Konami made a lot of good arcade games that never got released on home consoles. One by one, they're coming to the Switch!
I hope the also release Mystic Warriors and Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa!
Oh no this looks enjoyable
Will probably get this…..
I want Ninja Baseball Batman!
Cool! I'm stuck on level 4 of Raiden. It was awesome to finally download that onto my Switch, but dang is that a TOUGH game!
Definitely gonna get it, but I'd like to know, just out of curiosity, if there really is a connection between this one and Crime Fighters. People say Violent Storm is the third part, but I also heard that's a misconceptions. Any true connoisseur in the room who can shed light on this?
Day one - looks amazing.
@BloodNinja
You’re barking up the wrong tree. Hamster has never released a SEGA game to my knowledge. SEGA has released a bunch of arcade ports to Switch, but unfortunately their SEGA AGES line is over.
@RushDawg Sega is a weird company to understand. You think for a company that is bleeding money that they would want the money and just let M2 give us more games. There's easy money to be made and it seem Sega wants none of it but when their fiscal period ends they complain about not meeting revenue cause of lack of support. Like c'mon Sega you got tons of craps on your game catalog, just give them to us one by one so we could throw money at you.
@RushDawg Oh! I will find the correct tree and bark at it, then!
@Moroboshi876 This game is Crime Fighters 2 (that's its name in Japan). The third one is not explicitly connected.
I did enjoy this one in the 80s, makes me wish you could browse the eShop by developer/publisher, I know hamster realeses games left right and center but somehow I miss 'em while surfing the shop
I could have sworn some of those dying scream sound bites were used in Legend of Dragoon.
@Ghost_of_Hasashi
SEGA management: “Not enough people bought Sonic 1 and Space Harrier for the millionth time, guess there’s no point in releasing Revenge of Death Adder or those Saturn & Dreamcast games we teased our fans about”
I’m all for arcade brawlers, but the testosterone oozing from this one is just too much. It’s gone somewhere I can’t follow.
Have fun with it though, boys! 👍🏼
@BloodNinja
ive been asking for revenge of death adder for years
@nesrocks I know about the title... What I'm asking is whether the plot has something to do with the first one. Everywhere I look it doesn't seem to be the case.
After Streets of Rage 4, there is no turning back.
@Ghost_of_Hasashi
I get the feeling that stuff like Switch era Ages is more of Sega throwing money at M2 than legions of fans across the globe throwing money at Sega. They see their sales numbers. They know what sells: Yakuza and Sonic merch.
@ogo79 If they make it, that’s TWO guaranteed sales! C’mon Sega!
@BloodNinja
sega is stupid. i love em, but come on!
they know everyone wants revenge of death adder on switch, and not an arcade reproduction cabinet for 500 dollars.
they would make more off downloads for that game
@ogo79 Yeah, those expensive arcade cabinets are awful from a price to value ratio. $500 for a screen, an arcade controller and a few games? Uhhhh, would be nice if they loaded 50-100 arcade games on there, for that price.
Another Arcade gem, buy it now if you love side scrolling beat em ups:)
@BloodNinja
ha!
Excellent!
More arcade beat 'em ups for Switch, the better. Undercover Cops, Ninja Baseball Bat Man, Violent Storm, Metamorphic Force, Growl/Runark.
If only we had Capcom's Alien vs. Predator.
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