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I'll be getting this one for sure.

@Sveakungen Ah I see. I was bringing it up in response to the comment above that the game was too expensive at £26.99 and the original comment said it should be half-price. E.g. It should be and IS on Japanese shop at that price.

Essentially, lower the price in the UK eShop was the gist.

Would've bought WILD GUNS: RELOADED but £26.99 digital only is too much for me.

According to @hybridseed its £13 on Japan eShop.

Some interesting titles and a few discounts catch the eye but this week is a welcome break for my wallet. Outside of the UNO demo. Nothing for me. Phew!

Really enjoyable article. Thanks. I'd love a candy cabinet at home.

@ogo79 Of course that's the game I'm taking about 😉

Where's the love for BAKU BAKU ANIMAL? Tremendous puzzle game. I'll take the arcade or Saturn port please SEGA and soon.

@Ooyah Ha! Ha! If it makes them remember that SILENT HILL is a gaming franchise of theirs, then I'll take the risk. As for BOMBERMAN, he can barely turn corners at speed, so we're all good, lol!

I'm happy to live in bullet hell 😎

More beat-em-ups, more beat-em-ups, more beat-em-ups... bring them ALL to the Switch. I need them ALL!

Capcom, I'm calling you out. Konami you pussy. SEGA don't take AGES 😉 to get GOLDEN AXE 1 and 2 arcade versions out.

Retro gaming is an incredible palette cleaner at times like this. It allows one to live in a world where Konami are still the developer cherished the world over for their astoundingly good arcade games and home console titles. The jingle on their logo still sending tingles of joy down my spine. You can keep this modern world with this imposter bearing a mighty gaming God's name.

@NickFalk I've also heard that MOON PATROL can lay claim to being the first for parallax scrolling 👍

7 out of 10? 😱

Joking aside. MOON PATROL is one of the most playable (still to this day) and authentically classic arcade games of all-time. Deserves the same kind of recognition from the arcade gaming community that PAC-MAN, DONKEY KONG, BURGER TIME and SPACE INVADERS gets albeit if it wasn't a cultural phenomenon like many of those titles were. The more you play MOON PATROL, the more you love it and it also has one of the single greatest main themes in arcade history. Thank you IREM.

Excited to hear M2 are bringing SEGA retro games to Switch! THUNDER FORCE IV is a Day 1 buy. That shoot-em-up series is very highly regarded with many citing IV as the perfection of the franchise.

Look forward to seeing what other arcade titles they bring to Switch.

@OorWullie Yep, the seamless and flexible gaming experience that the Switch offers - the same game, no compromises available both on the TV or as a game on handheld on the go has fully interwoven its way into my lifestyle. I'll never go back to a 'static' system anchored to a monitor or TV. Likewise, I will now expect a full experience of any handheld game. Then you have the library of brilliant modern Nintendo games, the Nindies, increasing 3rd Party support and best of all... Our arcade glory days reborn anew and arcade perfect on a home system which you can take anywhere. Now just imagine if we can get Capcom, Konami, SEGA et. al onboard and retro games from 8-bit / 16-bit eras and beyond too. The Switch is destined to become my favourite gaming device of all-time.

Championship Manager was like gaming crack to me as a kid back on the Amiga. Once the brand changed to Football Manager I had become a man and had to choose - life or Football Manager? Life won that day and here now, many years later, with wife and kids in-tow. I must choose again... This time, the Switch factor may swing it 😉

@meppi64 I hear you buddy. It was a different world growing up a gamer with a European lens. SEGA were our gods during the Master System and Mega Drive eras and the arcades even more so. Such a shame to see how far the once mighty SEGA has fallen. I always live in hope they can at least somehow rediscover how to honour their legacy albeit if that is all they can honestly hope to achieve now.

I'm hoping it is something to do with their arcade gaming legacy coming to Nintendo Switch. SEGA were nigh-untouchable in the 80s/90s creating some of the most iconic coin-up games ever made.

I'm happy to admit I was a SEGA kid growing up so any Switch release of their 8-bit and 16-bit games would be nostalgia nirvana for me.

Alas, I've barely explored the later consoles of the SEGA SATURN and DREAMCAST. So again, I'd be thrilled to see these games come to Switch.

Played through this with much delight on its Wii U launch. I'd be tempted to pick it up again for the portability but just so many other games to buy before double-dips. Plus in many respects this is a game that benefits from TV play.

Was not fully decided but this glowing recommendation is going to make it hard to pass up. Will see how long I can keep it on wishlist for now before buying, lol! Too many games I want each week. Let alone find the time to play.

@OorWullie Nice! I know I still have LAST RESORT and ZED BLADE left to pick up. Possibly another one or two I'm forgetting. Likely just use my Gold coins each time they stack to £6/£7. Or when they get picked for the weekly high-score challenge. Whichever comes first 😉

@SuperCharlie78 Thanks 👍

@OorWullie I added STAR FORCE to my collection last week. It's a classic. Plays great even today. Wonderful instantly recognisable theme music too. Was in heaven listening to MOON PATROL and then STAR FORCE last week 👍

At last! DRAGON BLAZE and BAD DUDES Vs. DRAGON NINJA. Both shall be mine plus the Switch demos.

Also quite a few to add to the wishlist such as Neo Geo puzzler GURURIN and BOMBSLINGER but my precious few gaming pennies can only stretch so far. GRACEFUL EXPLOSION MACHINE or whatever it's called and STREETS OF RED also look appealing at those discounted prices.

Saw the word 'online' for a split second in the trailer. Please tell me this game has online versus mode? That would be amazing.

@GrailUK Yippee!

Fingers crossed DRAGON BLAZE actually arrives on the European eShop this week!

@CW13 Awesome 👍

@Atariboy Ah thanks for that, @Meppi64 also clued me into the fact they were PSMinis. No wonder I missed them. I'm stuck with UK PSN and only ever bought about 3 minis before forgetting they were even a thing, lol! ☺️

@Stargazer Would love Compile's shooters to come to Switch. Incredible output and they are the folks that did PUYO PUYO! 😂

@CW13 Which SNK arcade games do you have on Vita?

@Atariboy Hey buddy, thanks for the informative post regarding the control schemes.

You mention several SNK pre-Neo Geo hardware arcade titles were previously released on PSP? I must've totally missed that. What games came out and are they still available via PSN?

Please, please let the limited edition retail release come to Europe. This is right up there with FIRE EMBLEM Switch as my most anticipated game release of the year. So happy, P.O.W was a huge part of my arcade gaming childhood 👍

@Dethmunk Concur on PULSTAR. Phenomenal game. And always like to hear STAR FORCE get a mention. XEVIOUS (1982), STAR FORCE and Capcom's 1942 (both 1984) = pretty much the origin and template for vertical shoot-em up. All classics.

@wazlon ZERO GUNNER 2 ?

@mauhlin12 😜

Another for the wishlist 👍

Where's Psikyo's DRAGON BLAZE? Thought that was coming this week? Hope it lands tomorrow if not today.

Also still hoping for BAD DUDES vs. DRAGON NINJA but that may be next week?

@Gerald Hell yes, all the Konami back catalogue as Arcade Archives please. Starting with SUNSET RIDERS and MYSTIC WARRIORS.

How much in U.K. pounds? If its under £20 I will likely pull the trigger. More than that and it'll have to wait for a sale.

@Atariboy Thank you for the info. I'll make a note to pick that up 👍

@Atariboy Is 'Sonic Wings Special' a different stand-alone game then? I noticed it a good while back on PSN but assumed it was a compilation of the AERO FIGHTERS games?

I'd love a ranked list of all the shmups and all the beat-em ups (fewer on the system at the moment, but still). Whilst I'd likely have my own ideas as to the ordering it would prove a handy shopping list in order for me to buy every last one 😉

Going by this list...
It's seems, WILD GUNS: RELOADED (depending on price) aside, I'm shaping up for a STREET FIGHTER ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION and MARIO TENNIS ACES sandwich. Stuffed full of eShop arcade releases and indies inbetween. Still undecided on LABO and trying to hold-off with the Wii U port double-dipping. That said, MARIO KART 8 DELUXE has proved good value so never say never to DKC: TROPICAL FREEZE and CAPTAIN TOAD: TREASURE TRACKER.

I'm very much looking forward to E3 or future directs as my most anticipated Switch retail game is FIRE EMBLEM. I'd like to see and hear of more as yet unannounced games to flesh out Switch year 2. There's loads of stuff coming out but always hopeful for that game that seems aligned with one's own tastes.

@youkoaoshi Yeah, hard to imagine now just what a game-changer XEVIOUS was in its day. All the work of one developer working for NAMCO. Really forward thinking stuff in terms of the enemy attack behaviour and how the game changes up what enemy types you see more of dependent on how the player performs. Hard to go back to and see with fresh eyes perhaps but XEVIOUS really deserves a place on Switch. Come on NAMCO!

@youkoaoshi I'd perhaps question the notion that STAR FORCE wasn't innovative in its day. I may well be misinformed but I was under the impression STAR FORCE alongside XEVIOUS were pretty much the key innovators of their time in that both came to define the vertical shooter genre? E.g. Much of what followed in the form for the years to come owe both these games a not insubstantial debt of influence.

@wiggleronacid @RetroGamerAndrew I say go for it. It's currently on sale in the European eShop and wasn't expensive at full price. I bought it last year on Switch and have only really now been getting heavily into it.

I recommend playing seasons against the A.I. on each of the three difficulty settings whilst also jumping online. I had no clue what to do but am learning fast because of it.

I'll happily play with you folks if you need a buddy.

@Krull Oh nice one. There's talk of MOON PATROL being next week's challenge game but I'd imagine all the ZeroDiv titles will have their day eventually.

XENORAID any good? Modern shmups have some pretty stiff competition on Switch, so it'll need to be decent to even bother with regardless of it being on sale.

I'll certainly buy SENGOKU 3 and SENGOKU ACES 2 or whatever name it is going under over here. TENGAI? Also PUNCH-OUT! If not Day 1. Sooner or later. And the demos.

So, is BAD DUDES... still coming?

Certainly be giving the Demo a try with a view to a purchase.