Update [Thu 9th May, 2024 15:30 BST]: Hamster has revealed that the next Namco game coming to Arcade Archives will be the vertical shoot-em-up F/A (otherwise known as Fighter & Attacker).
The announcement was made during today's livestream on Hamster's YouTube channel (1:41:36), with the game being planned to start distribution across both PS4 and Nintendo Switch on May 15th.
Fighter & Attacker was originally released on Namco's NA-1 hardware in the arcades back in 1992 and is notable in that it has so far never been ported or reissued on consoles. As gosokkyu notes, it also features a fairly memorable techno-inspired score, which comes courtesy of the legendary Namco composers Takayuki Aihara (Ridge Racer 2, Street Fighter EX) and Shinji Hosoe (Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX).
Original Story [Fri 26th Apr, 2024 09:00 BST]: Usually, we have a pretty good idea of what upcoming titles are going to be in Hamster's record-breaking Arcade Archives series.
The publisher – which has worked with Nintendo, Tecmo, SNK, Konami and Namco on its series of retro classics – ordinarily tells us what forthcoming games are a few weeks in advance, so we have the opportunity to get sufficiently excited.
However, Hamster is breaking with tradition for its May 15th release – it's keeping it under wraps until the big day.
There's a reason that date is significant – it marks the 10th anniversary of the Arcade Archives range. It made its debut on the PS4 back on May 15, 2014, with Crazy Climber, Ninja-Kid, and Rygar all launching on the same day in Japan.
Rumours suggest it may be something that's never been previously ported to home hardware before. Fans are already speculating that it could be the Smash Bros.-like Outfoxies to 1998's Techno Drive.
Let us know what you'd like the game to be by posting a comment below.
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It's Gee Bee. Gee Bee was Namco's first ever video game, and it's not on the service yet. It makes perfect sense as a milestone release
Namco's first ever Arcade game was 1965's Periscope, but that was more of a "shoot the ducks at the fair" type deal than something that can be emulated on a Switch.
@Zeebor15 I didn't even think about that lol. That would make a lot of sense, but I do kinda hope that they make the 10th anniversary game something big for ACA for something like bigger 3D games. I think that would help to mark a big moment for ACA that they're going to go above and beyond now with even bigger arcade games, so that way it feels like every arcade game ever has a chance to get a release
What about Ms. Pac-Man?
@Boopero sigh If only... If only...
Tekken? Please let it be Tekken, or at least Winning Run. Either of those would be a massive deal, since Hamster doesn't typically do games from the 3D era.
My personal opinion if they are going to make the leap to 3D.. then it would have to be Ridge Racer
Oh god let it be Ridge Racer.
I want them to announce the greatest fighting game of all time, Tekken 3. Oh wait it’s not a want but a need.
Fighter and Attacker sure was a game to play for the reason stated by the Credit Inserted lady, "GET DOWN, EVERYONE!" (the tunes)
@Zeebor15 I wouldn’t like this but I’d respect it
Really disappointed that Hamster chose to play it safe instead of going for the 32-bit games like Outfoxies.
Hold on considering this is the big 10 year anniversary its only available in Japan nowhere else... that's a bit poo
Seems the game is unavailable outside of Japan due to its use of real world American digger planes.
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