The HAMSTER Arcade Archives series keeps on rolling, delivering a broad range of classics with impressive emulation (and extra goodies) of iconic cabinets. This week's arrival, on 28th October, will be Sky Kid; as usual for this series it'll cost $7.99USD with regional equivalents.
The name may be familiar to eager retro fans that used to raid the 3DS and Wii U eShop, with the NES port having previously been released on those platform's Virtual Consoles. This is the debut of the arcade version, though, along with the usual HAMSTER bonuses of various settings and online leaderboards.
Players control BARON and MAX to fight enemies with bombs and machine guns, fly in loops to dodge enemy attacks, and make their way to the base. Use bombs to defeat massive fortresses and battleships from above! Supports two player simultaneous co op.
Are you tempted to pick it up in this week's download update?
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Already have this on the Namco Arcade Pak. Still, fingers crossed for the coin-op version of Pac Land
Holding hope for Ms. Pac Man 🤞🏽
Always hated this one
Hamster continuing to do God’s work by bringing these retro goodies! and I believe they’ve yet to miss a week of releasing these classic tittles on Switch
As mentioned, this one is available in the Switch iteration of Namco Museum. No real hurry to get this one for me, though I might bite later on when/if it's on sale.
This is one of those games I was curious to try out after seeing it on Game Center CX, though that was the Famicom version.
Seemingly no one else likes Sky Kid, but it's always been a favorite of mine. Will be grabbing this one later this week, albeit over on the PS4 (Switch as said already has a solid rendition of this game).
Love this game. Quite possibly my all time NAMCO favourite.
@Shiryu you have gameplay footage?
Of course!
But tomorrow I will be buying it again and make a proper Switch gameplay video.
It's fine... I have it on the Namco Museum Collection.
All I'm really hoping for now is Galaxian, Pole Position and some of the 90s games from Namco like Time Crisis and Tekkan.
I have super vague memories of playing this as a kid after karate (there was an arcade cabinet that rotated the game board every couple of weeks) but never saw it since!
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