![]() With that in mind, yer man Scullion has put together this hefty guide to every single Nintendo-developed arcade game, from Computer Othello in 1978 to VS Dr Mario in 1990. One of the reasons so few people are interested in this is because Nintendo stopped developing its own arcade games in 1990 (and stopped making unique arcade-only titles in 1985).Ģ7 years have passed since then, so there’s a couple of generations of gamers who not only have no interest in Nintendo’s arcade past, but may not even be fully aware of it bar the obvious examples like Donkey Kong. Would you rather buy Punch-Out!! for the fourth time, or try its noticeably different arcade predecessor for a change? More importantly, some of the games already confirmed will be a refreshing change to the NES games we’ve already had on Wii, Wii U and 3DS. Hamster’s games to date – be it its ACA Neo Geo collection or the Arcade Archives games it’s already released on the PS4 and Xbox One – are well-handled emulations of the original arcade ROMs, and generally come with a lot more options than Virtual Console releases have: online high score tables, screen filtering, that sort of thing. But this could be better than the Virtual Console, at least from a novelty point of view. ![]() ![]() Most may have taken this news with a “meh, that’s cool I suppose”, while others inevitably went down the “never mind that, where’s my Virtual Console” route. A couple of days ago Nintendo streamed its latest Nintendo Direct presentation.įor many the most notable announcement was that Doom and Wolfenstein II are coming to the Switch, while the five minutes of new Super Mario Odyssey footage was a great way to wrap things up and get people talking after the Direct had ended.įor massively nerdy Nintendo historians (like me), though, the biggest news of the Direct was that Hamster Corporation – the studio currently responsible for the regular Neo-Geo games appearing on Switch and other consoles – will be bringing some of Nintendo’s old arcade games to the Switch as part of its Arcade Archives series.
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