Hamster Corporation has revealed this week's addition to the Arcade Archives, and it's none other than Success' first broom-based shoot 'em up, Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams.
The Switch has seen its fair share of Cotton titles since Reboot! landed on the hybrid back in 2021. In the years since, we have snatched up Cotton 100%, Panorama, Guardian Force Saturn Tribute, Fantasy, Rainbow Cotton and a host of others. In short, this Arcade Archives release will be adding to one heck of a collection.
Fantastic Night Dreams is where it all started. Released by Success in Japanese arcades in 1991, this one will see you flying into the first 'cute 'em up', as you don your hat, jet off on your broom and use a healthy arsenal of weapons to take down whichever fantasy creature stands in your path.
This one arrives on the Switch eShop today for £6.29 / €6.99 / $7.99.
Will you be adding another Cotton game to your collection today? Fly down to the comments and let us know.
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I’ve never played a cotton game. Which one should I start with on switch?
@Woodyshoe Reboot
It has a remake of this game that has new machanics and is a bit more beginner friendly, plus it has a Sharp X68000 port of the original
Maybe I can play this and determine if I can get some enjoyment out of it before plunging myself into the series.
Nice, looking forward to eventually playing this along with the other Cotton games on Switch!
Awesome to see the original arcade Cotton here! I feel like its been a while since we had any cool new inclusions of developers to the ACA lineup and Success is a good one to get. Also awesome to see that they're releasing Sega-based arcade titles now! Hopefully in the future we can at least get more 3rd party games that used Sega's arcade hardware as well
I have Reboot and Fantasy. Great games. But my enjoyment of Reboot is hampered because there's no auto fire option for the X68000 version. The developers actually talked about adding auto fire before the game was released... but they somehow forgot. Well actually it does let you use the 'Arrange' mode controls on the original, which has auto fire... But then you can't throw your fairies, which is one of your special moves. So it's not really an option to play this way.
@Sylamp ta — came here to ask the very same question.
Fantastic always wanted to try the original arcade game.
@Woodyshoe Cotton Rock'n'Roll - Superlative Night Dreams.
Beautiful game
I actually have this on that Sega Astro Mini. But I am tempted to get this on Switch as well to add it with the other Cotton games.
Wow, that one's actually a big deal. As far as I know, the only rerelease of the original was on the Astro City Mini.
I also used to have this on the Neo Geo Pocket Color, but that version sells for $1,000+ now.
@Serpenterror That looks like the New Zealand interface to me...
Ooh, that's really cool! I love the Super Famicom one 🥰
A great release of a great but haaaard game. Time to "insert coin"(s) till your finger bleeds and have a blast of a time
@World cotton 100% is one of the nicer looking Snes shooters for sure
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