Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Announced For Switch, Will Include 32 Classic Games

Confused as to why this isn’t just another DLC? Why break it up into two games?

The only capcom arcade games I can think of that were missing from the first release were the Mega Man games, and the capcom x marvel games, and I don't think we'll be seeing them any time soon.

I'm hoping we get Sidearms in this one.

I’d love to see Alien vs Predator, but I feel like that’s a long shot

More crapola for us to skip

@cyrus_zuo how funny! I was about to post the same thing…I love Side-Arms!! especially the soundtrack!

I wouldn't mind a way to get Mars Matrix on the Switch...

So 3-4 slots to more Street Fighter II then.

Hopefully:

Gun.Smoke
Trojan
Black Tiger
Magic Sword
Saturday Night Slam Masters / Muscle Bomber Duo

hoping for Gun Smoke and many more!

@pipes Yeah I really don't understand this decision. The original was already designed to be a multi- game collection. Just add onto it. Seems like a far more elegant option.

I'm confused as to why this is a whole new release?
It's not like these are advanced games like Rival Schools or Power Stone.
Just more pre-2000 arcade games. Which is fine! But these could have fit onto the original Capcom Arcade Stadium 🤷🏽‍♀️

@zbinks Trojan is already in Stadium 1 (JPN-only rom so different name).

Anyway, surely and hopefully (most wanted, excluding super unlikely licensed stuff like Punisher, AvP, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs etc.):

Led Storm
Last Duel
Mars Matrix
Gun.Smoke
Speed Rumbler
Black Tiger
Dimahoo
Pang!

@CharlieGirl n1 reason is that it’s obviously easier to market, to generate more interest in both releases, to get new reviews, and maybe there is also a technical reason with RE engine.

Wait, so we need to preorder or early purchase Capcom Fighting Collection to get Three Wonders?

There aren't that many non-licensed games left to release. SonSon, Black Tiger, Magic Sword, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Capcom Bowling... after that, it's a lot of licensed stuff that I doubt we'll get.

@Zach It's not clear if it's a timed exclusive that will only be available by preordering the other collection, but I hope not.

The wording is a bit ambiguous. So I'm hoping that a preorder for Capcom Fighting Collection simply unlocks Three Wonders in the base game alongside the standard freebie, SonSon (With Three Wonders otherwise available in one of the other paid packs).

@kingbk Tons of non-licensed based Capcom arcade classics left to release. 20 games alone just from Capcom Arcade Cabinet and Capcom Classics Collection 1 & 2. Then, there's scores of others that could be drawn from to fill out the lineup like the Mega Man arcade titles.

Then there's some like Slipstream and U.N. Squadron that only need some minor editing to make them free and clear for Capcom to release, which may or may not be something they're finally doing here.

Slipstream for instance has some real life sponsors plastered on billboards (It was always an unofficial Formula One game, so no infringing F1 references are present that would be excising). And U.N. Squadron already eliminated most of the Area 88 stuff back in the day for the western arcade release, with just a few more small edits needed to completely finish the job.

And if they got real desperate, toss in some SNES roms for their console exclusive sequels to their arcade Final Fight and Ghost 'n' Goblins franchises. Nobody ever complained that I saw about the presence of Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts in their otherwise arcade only compilations on the Saturn/PS1, PS2/Xbox, and PSP.

Saturday Night Slam Masters, Capcom definitely needs to include this.

Slam Master is on those Arcade1up machines
i kind of wish they tossed in the SNES/Genesis versions of some of these titles

Wonder 3/3 Wonders is a great Capcom game(s). It’s also a £200 import only title so the chance to play on Switch would be amazing.

should be interesting. I will get it

I doubt people will be mad about this existing since your paying money to get more games and not premium currency.

Honestly I do like how they do these collections. Buy the games you want, but keep them all in one app. Splitting it into a 2nd game doesn't make much sense to me, though.

sonson is the game of all time so wa-hey

Count me in! (Extra typed nonsense to get past the minimum sentence length requirement)

My Switch is already a one-stop hub for dozens upon dozens of retro games across the Arcade Classics and various compilations.
I have Capcom Arcade Stadium 1 and am looking forward to seeing what this one might offer.

60-plus Arcade coin-ops (not counting their fighting game-centric compilations) by Capcom makes them easily one of Switch's most prolific publishers in this arena, and such efforts have me wishing and hoping others will do more going forward. I really wish Midway would release one as they did for previous console generations, and that Namco would put together a better and more thorough collection than their current one on Switch. But hands down the company with the most still-unreleased Arcade coin-ops is Sega; I would pre-order a thorough compilation of their classics from the early 1980s through the 2000s the instant it went up for sale.

I still think it's an absolutely ridiculous to turn this into another application instead of offering it as another game pack for the existing stadium.
This makes things needlessly complicated.

AVP, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Ring of Destruction, the two Dungeons and Dragons games, and the 3D fighting games better be on this 2nd version of Capcom Arcade Stadia.

I know Hamster needs to get paid, but Capcom’s arcade games are much more reasonably priced.

What is the benefit of announcing the number of games but not the titles? Decades old games for crying out loud, just put out the information

@Atariboy
I think there is a higher chance we get all the licensed games than Slipstream.
Slipstream is rather unique as it's the only Capcom arcade game which uses "rival" hardware. In this case Sega's System 32.

speaking of licensed games. I don't think they are "impossible". People tend to overestimate the 'license hazzle'. especially if there is only one license involved.
You can see countless cases of revived movie+TV licensed (arcade)games in the last couple of years.
i.e. The Arcade One Up machines which include Simpsons, Turtles, Tron, Terminator 2, Marvel, etc etc

Hell, even Capcom (via KochMedia) revived the rather complicated AvP license for their arcade beat'em up to put it on their stupid-ass arcade stick.

@Tandy255 True but with Capcom you had to get the collection, at least with HAMSTER you pick the one you want so if there's a crappy version of an arcade game you don't like then you could easily avoid it. With Capcom collection, you will get both the good and the bad all in one package for example the Mega Man X Legacy Collection not only gives you all the good Mega Man X games like the first five and eight but also the crappier ones like X6 and X7 as well.

Same thing with the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Capcom gave us good versions of SFII, Champion Edition, Hyper Fighting, New Challengers, Super Turbo, SF Alpha 1 & 2 and SFIII but they also gave us inferior versions of SFA3 while ignoring better upgraded titles like Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, Alpha 3 Upper, Alpha 3 Max, and Hyper Street Fighter Alpha as well as the garbage Street Fighter 1.

@Specter_of-the_OLED after a recent update you can buy the individual games now too in the capcom arcade stadium 1.. 2 euros/ game

@Specter_of-the_OLED
Yeah, you can buy the games separately.

Hopefully you can do that with this one from the off.

@Specter_of-the_OLED i'd prefer a complete package to anything else, can't take the good without the bad in a history collection

that said, there was 0 chance of them including max (it's a PSP game), 3 upper (naomi ports are notoriously rare), or hyper (this isn't even really a game) and to assume they would is just silly; even alpha 2 gold has only really been rereleased on the ps2 collection and most people usually think about it as the console version, which again wouldn't make sense in an arcade compilation

It will be interesting to see if any licensed games appear.
Aliens Vs Predator
Punisher
X-men
Marvel Super Heroes
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Area 88
Dungeons and Dragons
but I can think of 32 games that don't include these
Still, you never know

ok really good, but why split the collection in 2 ???? new dlc for the first game is better!

@Austrian I didn't know that, but I believe they're using an open source MAME license for Capcom Arcade Stadium. So maybe that's not as much of a roadblock as it appears at first (Unsure of the status of Sega System 32 emulation in MAME)?

I agree though, it doesn't appear to bode well for Slipstream if it's using hardware utilized only by a single Capcom game. That almost always pushes such a game to the bottom of the list for these compilations.

I will probably buy Capcom Fighting Collection at full price to get the free 3-game collection Three Wonders. Then pick up all 3 of the Capcom Arcade Stadium 2 game packs on sale.

The fact it's split up does give me hope we might see physical volumes at some point. (Not much hope, mind, but hope nonetheless.)

So is this still the same structure as the first where you get a few games to start with and you buy the rest? That doesn't sound sustainable...

@Oh_Well ya and they will put some street fighter games in it, which no one ask for it.

@GrailUK
I’ve been holding out for a physical release of Collection 1 and Ghouls & Ghost Resurrected for months and resisted several sales now, and have all but lost hope. It would be nice if they were delaying a physical release until Collection 2 rolled out, but what are those odds?

Still, it’s nice they’re bringing out decent collections. I’d love to see Side.Arms and Magic Sword in this one, and the licensed titles you and others have mentioned would be awesome!

@Teksetter Me too. Was also hoping for a Shinsekai Into the Depths release as that looks beautiful.

To be honest, this harkens back to the PS2 days, when they made the compilations. Certain ones would contain so many games, so they give us another compilation for more games. We might get titles like the dual-stick shooter about saving the environment, ECO FIGHTERS, or we could get titles of franchises owned by Disney, like Alien vs. Predator, Willow, and the Vs. Series titles:

X-Men vs. Street Fighter
Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes

Although, when you think of it, Capcom and Disney could just put the Vs. Titles into a collection of its own.

People spent years complaining about paid DLC in so many games, but in this case, making this a DLC for the first game made so much more sense.

DLC is a tool, there's a right time to use it and the right time to not use it, and there's a good way to use it, a bad way to use it, during the PS3/360/Wii era, paid DLC was constantly misused, and people only stopped complaining because we got stuff that is even worse like microtransactions and Loot Boxes.

@pipes Mega Man Fans:

@GrailUK
Oh yeah, Shinsekai! I forgot about that one. It did look nice and another I wouldn’t mind owning on a cartridge. 😏

I’ll be curious to see the lineup for this 2nd collection. But would buying it mean another title for the backlog, or 32 more titles?? ☹️

@Zach I'll guess it is sold separately as Ghosts 'n Goblins was in the first collection.

You can only go so long without Pulling!

So what seems likely on this upcoming set? Obviously 3 Wonders and Son-Son will be on there, but also likely:
-1943 Kai
-Avengers
-Black Tiger
-Block Block
-Eco Fighters
-Exed Exes
-Gun.Smoke
-King of Dragons, The
-Knights of the Round
-Last Duel
-Magic Sword
-Mega Man: The Power Battles
-Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
-Quiz & Dragons
-Side Arms
-Speed Rumbler, The
-Tiger Road

@AtlanteanMan Totally agree. My Switch pretty much has turned into a hybrid arcade. Why in the world would I need an expensive Arcade 1up machine when I've got pretty much all the arcade hits I love on a device that can be played on my TV or on the go?

Also, totally agree about Midway! WB needs to release a Williams/Midway/Atari Games collection, or allow Arcade Archives to start putting the games on their service for download.

@dustinprewitt D&D, Aliens vs Predator, Black Dragon, The Punisher, Slipstream just to name a few

Stupid idea to break it into another collection. I wonder if they'll integrate into the same frontend space. Either way I'm in. lets hope for some D&D AVP, Punisher, Black Dragon.

@speedyb Why would they enter knights of the round and King of Dragons again?

@Teksetter really high. My dad owns Capcom and he said over breakfast that they were releasing these soon.

So my question is what are the 32 games that are on this collection ¿‽¿

Two collections with DLC add-ons doesn't really make sense. Maybe if one was 80's and the other was 90's...but just arbitrarily splitting up really old games just looks like a cash grab.

@YANDMAN
Well, thank you for the insider tip and I hope your father isn’t joking.
Was he eating breakfast with your uncle who works at Nintendo? 😉

@pipes and then there is darkstalkers collection, street fighter collection, mega man collection. They should just release two collection, which is arcade collection and consoles collection, and keep releasing DLC.

@speedyb I like your thinking. Those would round out the missing games from the previous Capcom Classics Collections nicely. There'd still be a fair few slots left so do you think there might be some surprises in store? I'd hope the Mega Man games as you say, perhaps the Slam Masters games and may be some Pang? That still wouldn't be 32 though and we'd start to move into licenced territory or else 3D/Naomi games unless they are going to rehash Street Fighter, etc.

I'm glad Son Son is included. It is one of the few arcade games I beat on 1 credit. Super addictive

@KnightsTemplar This is high price crapola!! I'd expect a physical cartridge for the price.

Glad they are releasing more classics!

I am going to stick to my MiSTer however until compannies start making universal liscences for games that carry over every console generation like on PC. Platform should not matter and the cost should not be placed on the consumer when something re-releases on future platforms.

My predicted line up...
Already confirmed:
SonSon (1984)
Three Wonders (1991)

1985-1988 pack:
Exed Exes (1985)
Gun.Smoke (1985)
The Speed Rumbler (1986)
Hyper Dyne Side Arms (1986)
Avengers (1987)
Black Tiger (1987)
Street Fighter (1987)
Tiger Road (1987)
1943 Kai (1988)
Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012 (1988)

1989-1992 pack:
Led Storm (1989)
Willow (1989)
U.N. Squadron (1989)
Buster Bros. (1989)
Magic Sword (1990)
Super Buster Bros. (1990)
Nemo (1990)
The King of Dragons (1991)
Knights of the Round (1991)
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (1992)

1993-2001 pack:
Saturday Night Slam Masters (1993)
Super Street Fighter II (1993)
Eco Fighters (1994)
Pang! 3 (1995)
Mega Man: The Power Battle (1995)
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (1996)
Capcom Sports Club (1997)
Strider 2 (1999)
Mars Matrix (2000)
Giga Wing 2 (2001)

@Teksetter My uncle owns Nintendo.

I just realized Willow is a licensed game based on the movie of the same name. That'd be a good game to have on Disney+ if they ever start streaming video games.

My revised predicted line up...
Already confirmed:
SonSon (1984)
Three Wonders (1991)

1985-1988 pack:
Exed Exes (1985)
Gun.Smoke (1985)
The Speed Rumbler (1986)
Hyper Dyne Side Arms (1986)
Avengers (1987)
Black Tiger (1987)
Street Fighter (1987)
Tiger Road (1987)
1943 Kai (1988)
Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012 (1988)

1989-1993 pack:
Led Storm (1989)
Buster Bros. (1989)
Magic Sword (1990)
Super Buster Bros. (1990)
Block Block (1991)
The King of Dragons (1991)
Knights of the Round (1991)
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (1992)
Saturday Night Slam Masters (1993)
Muscle Bomber Duo: Ultimate Team Battle (1993)

1993-2001 pack:
Super Street Fighter II (1993)
Eco Fighters (1994)
Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II (1994)
Pang! 3 (1995)
Mega Man: The Power Battle (1995)
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (1996)
Capcom Sports Club (1997)
Strider 2 (1999)
Mars Matrix (2000)
Giga Wing 2 (2001)