We're moving away from Namco's backlog for a bit this week in the Arcade Archives line-up, as the next game coming to the series is 1981 arcade shooter Space Seeker. the game will be dropping on the eShop tomorrow — 16th June — for the usual price of $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29.
This game is known for having multiple different perspectives across its six areas. Much of the game is played as a side-scrolling shooter, but you have to navigate many areas — known as 'bases' — from a top-down view, and if you attack a fleet here, you swap to a first-person cockpit perspective.
Space Seeker is also part of the Taito Milestones collection which launched in the West back in April earlier this year, so it'll be good to have the game available digitally and separately, especially as we were a bit disappointed by the selection:
You can check out some gameplay of Space Seeker below, and make sure you let us know if you'll be downloading this in the comments!
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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That's nice, but this is the only arcade game from Taito I want on Switch!
Honestly wish they did more arcade games from the late late 80s to early 90s, or at the very least lowered the prices for these ones as 8 dollars is unreasonable for early pick up and play for a minute arcade games like these
Let's get Zoo Keeper on here.
@Funneefox Agreed! Hamster needs to make a profit, but $8 is too high for a digital title that probably won’t transfer to the next console.
I want phoenix 🤷♂️
@Clyde_Radcliffe You have excellent taste!!
@Funneefox I'd love to see them go further than that, even. Imagine waking up one day to see that the next game was Tekken, Ridge Racer, or one of the Cruis'n games, or, better yet, KOF 11 or F-Zero AX. At that point, all I'd really want would be for them to finally get Sega, Midway, and Atari in on AA (since Capcom is clearly doing their own thing), and I'd be perfectly happy with this going forward.
I have Space Seeker in the Taito Milestones collection, and it's not great. Definitely innovative and interesting, but I played it twice and I'm done with it. Good old-fashioned arcade brutal difficulty.
@kingbk
You beat me to it! I came here to stump for Zoo Keeper too.
I would gladly take Taito’s Gladiator though!
@alexybubble Yeah, it would be nice for AA to branch out and start putting some of the Atari, Williams/Bally/Midway, and Sega games on the platform. Some of the Sega games are available via Sega Ages, but we're missing games arcade classics like Zaxxon, Pengo, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, etc.
Space Seeker reminds me a bit of Space Battle for the Intellivision, which, oddly enough, predated this game. Though Space Battle doesn't have any side scrolling stages.
It looks good for a game from 1981. I’ve never heard of it though and definitely won’t be downloading it.
Hey Taito. Still waiting on a new Bust-A-Move for Switch with online play…
maybe even a FTP Bust-A-Move 99 competitive online concept could work well! It’s tyme!
… Wun can only hope.
There's a lot of interesting ideas in the game, but it's really not fun to play, unfortunately.
@JJtheTexan darn. I should have checked the collection first.
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