Shmup fans, strap yourselves in, because Taito's Fighting Hawk is the latest game to enter the Arcade Archives collection on Switch.
Originally released back in March 1989, Fighting Hawk is very much your typical shmup, with tanks, airplanes, gunships, and other heavy machinery just waiting to be blown to smithereens by your A-10 'Tankbuster' aircraft. It will launch for the standard Arcade Archives price of $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29.
Last week's Arcade Archives release was the Japan-only Youkai Douchuki, a platformer boasting five levels and five different endings.
Let us know in the comments if you plan on picking up the latest release in the Arcade Archives collection!
[source twitter.com]
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Street Hawk bike was chuffing awesome! Xx
I’ve been playing Twin Hawk lately, is this similar?
every week, I keep hoping Hamster will release Namco's Pole Position ☹
The switch is basically handheld shmup heaven at this point lol
Nice, there's so many great shoot 'em ups on Switch. Keep 'em coming!
The Switch is the new Saturn, full of awesome shmups. My favourite genre!! Still love the Saturn a little bit more though;)
@NotArmani Yeap, the fact that you could play them in the proper TATE mode portably for some games is a big bonus to the shmup lineup as well.
So to me it looks a lot like Twin Hawk, so I think I’ll pick it up as I like that style of shooter. The soundtrack doesn’t sound typical of Toaplan or the war setting, so someone got creative at Taito. It’s strange but I like it
@CharlieGirl now THAT would be cool! We got both Rally X games so hopefully! 😊
Why does everyone love this type of shootemup but not a linear star fox. I’ll forever be confused. Btw raiden is my top five game all time.
@sixrings I like Galaxy Force which is basically linear star fox
This could have been soooo good if there wasn't the sound.
both, SFX and music, are mindblowingly terrible.
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