The retro video game purveyors at Hamster are feeling shmuppy this week and have chosen to re-release colourful '80s arcade Time Pilot, now available to download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Developed by Konami, Time Pilot hit the arcades in ...
A great man (Occams) once told me the best games are the ones you didn't know you wanted until someone made them... It was something like that. I think. Anyway, I experienced the embodiment of that theory this morning, when I learned that t...
Hamster have added another old-school arcade title to their expanding Arcade Archive catalogue. Nichibitsu's sci-fi schmup Armed F is now available to download on the Nintendo Switch.Originally hitting the arcade market in 1988, Armed F (al...
Farming sims are usually all realistic tractor physics and amber waves of grain. This one finds a weird intersection between shoot-em-ups and farming simulator. It's something of a farm-em-up. F 'em up, if you will. Atomicrops is a ne...
Another old-school title is out for download this week, courtesy of the fine folk at Hamster, who have re-released a genuine arcade favourite in the form of Ikari Warriors, available now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Originally released in arc...
Outed by Taiwan's Digital Game Rating Committee, it seems as if Raiden V is coming to Switch at some point. Unlike other ratings that may or may not come to fruition for years, this one seems like a sure thing given the sheer popu...
The arcade fans at Hamster have pulled another '80s classic out of their big bag of licences, slapping it onto Nintendo Switch for a whole new generation of players. This week sees the return of one of the grandfathers of the shmup genre, M...
City Connection has announced that hectic shmup Psyvariar Delta is headed to the PC platform, launching on Steam in just a couple of weeks.Psyvariar Delta is an amalgamation of two classic shmups, Psyvariar Medium Unit and Psyvariar Revisio...
Get cat-scratch fever with this contest for Neko Navy on Switch! I operate on very, very simple terms: I see a video game featuring a flying cat, I ensure that I put it up for a contest on Dtoid. This is how I live my life, and if you have ...
If you're looking to have a very hypnotic Christmas, you'll be pleased to know that Jeff Minter's "trippy tunnel shooter" Polybius has come to PC. There's optional Oculus Rift support to push the game to its most psychedelic and trance-indu...
Those delightful retro-enthusiasts at Hamster have brought something a little different to the table for this week's Arcade Archive re-releases. From the mid-90s, Twinkle Star Sprites is a very colourful and cute anime shmup that might appe...
After musing on a haul of old games the Treasure account was asked by yet another fan to bring Radiant Silvergun, one of its crown jewel shoot 'em ups (shmups) to the Switch. But instead of ignoring it or changing the subject it actually en...
Given that it's already out on pretty much every other platform, Ghost Blade HD coming to Switch makes sense. Developer Hucast Games has announced that it's going to be Switch-bound sometime in 2019, and teases the addition of Tate (ve...
Arc System Works has been busy. In addition to all the fighters they've been pumping out they're bringing the Psikyo Collections to Switch, propelling the shoot 'em up (shmup) genre back into the forefront. Just today they announced the thi...
Good news for shmup fans this weekend, as Japanese developer M2, under their new moniker of M2A, has announced that the old-school Aleste series is preparing to return to the skies with a new title in 2019.The Aleste series of vertically-sc...
For me, and many other older video game players, there are some enemies and bosses that are well-knit into the fabric of gaming memories. Creatures and characters that you saw persistently in magazine screenshots and print ads, repeatedly u...
As part of Hamster's never-ending pledge to bring classic retro titles to modern platforms, the publisher has re-released UPL's mini-mech - and fantastically-titled - shooter Atomic Robo-Kid on Nintendo Switch.Released in the arcades back i...
Astebreed is a fantastic bullet hell game that originally launched on PC and eventually made its way onto PlayStation 4 too. Last week, it was quietly released on the Switch eShop without much marketing or fanfare. After spending some time ...
Retro PS3 collection R-Type Dimensions will be returning later this month on PC and Nintendo Switch as R-Type Dimensions EX. The title includes Irem's classic coin-ops R-Type and R-Type II, complete with some new features.All of the fast-fi...
Do you like shmups and shooters, but really suck at them? You're in for a treat, then, as Nintendo has added an easy version of Gradius for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers today. Similar to the easy version of The Legend of Zelda added l...
According to Irish folklore, Samhain is the day on the calendar when doorways between the land of the living and the land of the dead and other regions of the supernatural open at their widest. Over time, the day morphed into what we now ca...
This week, your retro friend and mine, Hamster, has pulled up another classic '80s arcade and given it a new lease of life on a modern platform, as SNK shmup Alpha Mission takes to the skies once more on Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades ...
The second offering from retro enthusiasts Hamster is a twitchy arcade classic. Fans of shmups can take to the skies once more in a great arcade release from the late '90s, Strikers 1945 Plus, available now on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Sw...
A new console generation, a new Sega compilation. That seems to be the mantra Sega has adopted with its back catalog. Unlike Nintendo’s drip-feed approach to Virtual Console (RIP) or Sony’s refusal to even allow for backward com...
A lot of shoot 'em ups (shmups) come across my desk: like a lot. And I could be happier. There are a lot of genres out there that have been "dead" or "dying" for years, even decades. Folks don't see shmups in arcades anymore (hell they don'...
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