Surprise! Eight Classic PolyGame Master Arcade Titles Are Out Now On Switch

Brilliant games, have em all on my arcade cab.

The Switch's retro game library is just so damn impressive.

They are all 2d fighting games or beat em ups. Certainly a treat for the fans of the genre, but they could probably offer something else to attract a wider audience. I'm not familiar with their game portfolio, though, maybe they only produced this kind of games

Well I’m guessing they didn’t really find much success competing against SNK. Always look forward to discovering new games, even if these titles aren’t necessarily my thing.

It's also out in Australia! Just bought it for $42 and it runs pretty good so far. Martial Masters and The Gladiator are classics, and Knights of Valour is a great beat em up series too.

Never heard of these games but I could be tempted if they come to the West. Since they are fully playable in English already, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

@ComfyAko They were quite well known for the Knights of Valour beat em up games, which were huge in the late 90s/early 2000s arcade scene in East Asian countries. Think Capcom's Warriors of Fate up to 11, and the first game alone had multiple versions including a port to the PS4.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing the word, Alana. I'd like to pick this collection up.

If it's out in Australia, can we expect a full PAL release? Desperately hoping so. Guess we find out at 2pm when the eshop updates?

On that picture that 1 character looks like Tien from Dragonball Z.

Oh awesome! I don't really know the company's line up well, but I do know Martial Masters and that game is just beautiful to look at. Hopefully it's priced well and has online support

Cool, hope it makes its way to North America. Always down for more 90s arcade games.

Wow! Martial Masters! Finally!

Neat. Never played these. Will give them a go. I love finding new old games to play.

This is truly excellent.

Oh wow, and what a surprise this is! Always wanted to try out their beat em ups. Will wait just for a little bit to see if a physical gets released.

If and when it comes to the United States I can't say.

@Fighting_Game_Loser All of the games except The Gladiator and Demon Front has online support. Last time I checked quite a few people were playing Knights of Valour. However the current servers seem to be hosted in China so if you're playing in the USA you'd get severe lag unfortunately.

Does anyone know which ones are beat 'em ups? The Switch is already the best machine I've ever owned for that genre.

@MetalKingShield Knights of Valour 1 & 2, Oriental Legend, and The Gladiator are beat em ups, and there seems to be multiple versions. Oriental Legend is based on Journey to the West but it's the developer's first game and the graphics are rather amateurish. The Knights of Valour series are considered to be their best, is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and is inspired by Capcom's beat em ups like Warriors of Fate along with some fighting game moves. The Gladiator is like a spiritual sequel to Knights of Valor but has an original wuxia inspired story.

@PKDuckman - thanks very much. I really like Warriors of Fate and Knights of Valour does look very similar. Looking forward to these.

Unexpected, but very cool news. IGS's PGM is a cool platform. Obviously, their games were targeted to various Asian countries which is why many do now know these. Martial Masters is an impressive fighter to see in action, though I have only played it a little bit. My favorite two games here are Demon Front and The Gladiator. Demon Front appears to be a shameless Metal Slug rip off at first, but it's different enough to be its own thing and has some interesting ideas and a good number of secrets that can be found. It's slower and more defensive than Metal Slug. The Gladiator is quite a good beat-em-up with an interesting control scheme and great looks. It has some crazy secrets and alternate paths and bosses that are super tough to find even when you know what you're doing.

This is phenomenal news!!! I love The Gladiator and was wishing that some day it would get a proper and legal release to a wider audience.

I believe I was playing an Oriental Legend game when I had my bag full of newly bought DVDs stolen from under my feet at an arcade in China.

It was a Journey to the West beat 'em up, of that I'm sure. I couldn't read the hanzi so I didn't know the names of any of the games I played.

@ComfyAko One is a run n gun. They don't make anything else other than mahjong.

Why does it say it's out worldwide when it's not? I see other sources claiming this too but it's definitely not in my eShop yet.

@JJtheTexan Yeah, the lack of 4:3 is not a deal breaker for me, but it would be nice to have, along with various screen filter options. That stuff comes standard in most of these collections today. Seems like something they could easily patch in if they were so inclined.

Sadly, it's a lazy port with bad emulation.
Thank God for Mame.

STRETCHED to 16:9?! How could they screw this up so badly?
All we need for arcade emulation collections are 1. the original aspect ratio. 2. low latency. 3. black background option. 4. sharp pixels. filter options are ok, but don't make them default. and 5. some faked scanline options.

@JJtheTexan The devs just dropped an update which added 4:3. Still no options to disable the soft filter though