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Mighty Guy – more Arcade Archives news

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Hamster Co has announced that Mighty Guy will be released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on January 4th 2024, available digitally for the Arcade Archives series. Mighty Guy is an action game released by Nichibutsu in 1986. Use your PSYCHO GUN in addition to superhuman actions like punches, kicks, and beams to take down enemies and stop the massive supercomputer "ZELDA" in its schemes to genetically modify humanity and
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Solitary Fighter – more punching from Arcade Archives

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We always like to report on the latest releases from Hamster and its Arcade Archive range. On the 28th of December 2023, Solitary Fighter joined the ever-growing roster of quality arcade titles to purchase. It's out on PlayStation 4 and Switch. Released in 1991, Solitary Fighter takes place in America in the early 1950s. With an eye on becoming the no. 1 quarreler, the player participates in 'Violence Fight', a
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Rainbow Islands Set to Bound out of the Arcade Archives Next Month

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Hamster Corp are getting 2024’s Arcade Archives releases for PS4 and Nintendo Switch off to a cracking start with the 1987 Taito platformer Rainbow Islands, which, of course, is the sequel to the equally brilliant Bubble Bobble, this time starring Bub and Bob in their human form, and introducing a vertical playing field as opposed to their previous game’s single-screen playing area.You may recall that the Amiga conversion was named
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Pole Position II Zooms out of the Arcade Archives

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https://youtu.be/wTvoHWk000M Earlier this year, we reported that Hamster had added the arcade racing classic Pole Position to its Arcade Archives range of emulated arcade titles for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, and last week, the original Pole Position was joined by its imaginatively titled sequel, Pole Position II. So if you enjoyed Pole Position on Arcade Archives, now you can enjoy another one of it.Namco’s Pole Position II originally zoomed
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350 Titles Now Unearthed from the Arcade Archives

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We've previously covered Hamster Corp’s impressive weekly Arcade Archives series of releases of classic arcade titles here on Fusion R Gamer, and now, the series has been running for an unbroken run of 350 weeks (nearly 7 years!), with 350 arcade classics now made available for Nintendo Switch, and many also available on PlayStation 4 (not the ones featuring Mario, obv!) The very first release in the series was on
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Hamster Corp Veer off the Rails Deep into Konami’s Arcade Archives for their Latest Release

Paul Twist0
One thing we love about Hamster Corp’s Arcade Archives line of emulated arcade titles is that they dig deep into the Arcade Archives for forgotten gems, as well as releasing well-known beloved classics, and the latest release is definitely an example of the former.“Guttang! Gottong!” might sound like a catchphrase that one of Mr Biffo’s surreal creations would shout, but Guttang Gottong is actually the latest Arcade Archives release and
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Hamster Corp’s Arcade Archives Continue to Dig Deep into Gaming’s Past, Embarking upon a Dark Adventure

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We recently reported that shooter Mad Shark been released in the Arcade Archives series.Well, Hamster Corp just keep digging into those Arcade Archives, and their next title, Dark Adventure, is already available on the Japanese PS Store for PS4 and Japanese eshop for Nintendo Switch.The next Arcade Archives title to be dusted off is a 1987 Konami title known as 'Dark Adventure' in the West, or 'Maju no Oukoku' in
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Mad Shark Resurfaces via Arcade Archives

Paul Twist0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAK9_VclWyw&pp=ygUZbWFkIHNoYXJrIGFyY2FkZSBhcmNoaXZlcw%3D%3D Hamster Corp just keep digging deeper and deeper into those Arcade Archives, as ‘Mad Shark’, the latest Arcade Archives title hits the surfaces of the PS Store and the Nintendo Switch eshop.Despite its name, Mad Shark isn’t a game in which you lay an angry Jaws-like sea-dweller intent on gobbling up beachgoers, as fun as that would be.‘Mad Shark’ is actually a decent-looking vertically scrolling shoot ‘em up that
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Arcade Archives Growl Confirmed as Next Release in Series

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https://youtu.be/BOrVyMWiUqA Hamster Corp just can’t stop them classic arcade titles from bursting out of their Arcade Archives!Recent weeks have seen the line of emulated arcade titles for Switch and PS4 bolstered by Pole Position and King & Balloon.The next release has been confirmed as Arcade Archives Growl, a game originally released under the title ‘Runak’ in Japan. Taito originally released the beat ‘em up to arcades back in 1990, with
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Nintendo Switch & PlayStation 4 Reach Pole Position Tomorrow

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The long-running Japanese games magazine Famitsu have reported that Namco’s 1982 arcade racer Pole Position is speeding its way onto Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 tomorrow (Thursday 6th July).Pole Position is the latest release in Hamster Corp’s Arcade Archives series, which brings official releases of emulated arcade classics of yesteryear to modern formats. The new Arcade Archives release of Pole Position for PS4 and Switch will offer a mode with
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