Our Nostalgic Games: Double Dragon

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Publish Date: 11/08/2018

Our Nostalgic Games ~Retro Gamer Round-table~ #204

Editors passionately discussing games playable on modern hardware that are just as good as they've ever been!

Arcade Archives Neo Geo (PS4) - Double Dragon

A beat-em-up released from Technos Japan in 1987. You can use boulders and boxes to attack in these side scrolling stages that have depth. You can also play with two players simultaneously. Original Release Year: 1987 Hardware: Arcade Date of Digital Release: 11/22/2014 Maker: Hamster Continue Reading

Shatter Your Goals – How to Get to the Other Side of Your Dreams by Hironobu Kageyama

ゴールをぶっ壊せ - 夢の向こう側までたどり着く技術
Written by Hironobu Kageyama
Released 01/10/2018
Published by Chuokoron-Shinsha

Over 40 years after his debut as a singer, anime and tokusatsu song legend Hironobu Kageyama released a book detailing the ups and downs of his career from the very beginning, as well as thoughts on how other aspiring artists (or anyone aspiring to be anything, really) could learn from his own downs to help achieve their goals. Continue Reading

Our Nostalgic Games: Karate Champ

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Publish Date: 10/11/2018

Our Nostalgic Games ~Retro Gamer Round-table~ #200

Editors passionately discussing games playable on modern hardware that are just as good as they've ever been!

Arcade Archives (PS4) - Karate Champ

An action-game from Data East. With controls that combined the use of two separate joysticks, you can perform all sorts of different karate techniques. Undergo training and fight to win. Original Release Year: 1984 Hardware: Arcade Date of Digital Release: 10/09/2014 Maker: Hamster Continue Reading

Our Nostalgic Games: #200 Special

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Publish Date: 10/11/2018

Our Nostalgic Games ~Retro Gamer Round-table~ #200 Special

For the 200th edition of Our Nostalgic Games, we have some very special guests here to talk about their memories as classic gamers! With us today are unparalleled game-lover MCU, and Fujita, a man well known for his gaming abilities. We've invited these two friends here for nostalgic game talk, in this very special edition. In addition, they also took to competing with one another more than the usual contributors. Continue Reading

How Does Hamster Determine Their Release Dates?

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Publish Date: 09/06/2018

Having begun releasing ACA Neo Geo titles simultaneously on the Nintendo Switch, Hamster hasn't missed a week since. Even though they're ports, how is Hamster's release schedule determined for them to get these titles out in such short periods of time?

Hamster Arcade Archives Series Producer Satoshi Hamada

A big fan of arcade games himself, he carries out his life's work by heading up the Arcade Archives and ACA Neo Geo projects, and also serves as the president of Hamster.

You need to obtain the original boards to re-issue arcade games!?

Hamster has been working hard to re-issue all of these games so far, but I was surprised when you started releasing Nintendo titles for Arcade Archives. What happened in order to make that possible? Continue Reading