Tag: Console Archives
News Another Absurdly Obscure PS1 Game Will Make Its Worldwide Debut on PS5 This Week
A day in the life
This one has me stumped. In fact, I may need to give my friends at Time Extension a call, because I’ve never heard of this. UFO: A Day in the Life will launch on the PS5 via Hamster’s Console Archives this week, from 6th August. It’s a PS1 game by a Japanese dev composed primarily of ex-Squaresoft staff which first launched...
News A Best-Selling Famicom Game Is Making Its Global Debut on PS5 This Week
"Hey, there! My name is Doraemon"
Hudson Soft’s Famicom best-seller Doraemon will finally release worldwide this week, courtesy of Japanese retro studio Hamster. The 1986 game, based on the wildly popular manga by Fujiko Fujio, sold over one million copies in its native Japan, making it among the top-selling Famicom titles the year of its...
News Namco's Arcade Oddity Armadillo Racing Makes Its Console Debut on PS5, with Trackball Support
PS1 tycoon title The Conveni also coming
1997’s outlandish arcade oddity Armadillo Racing will make its console debut on PS5 and PS4 this week, on 23rd July, courtesy of industrious Japanese dev Hamster. Part of its Arcade Archives offering, the trackball-controlled System Super 22 racer sees you guide a rolled up armadillo through a series of...
News These Console Classics May Have the Laziest Trophy Lists in PS5 History
Great games, garbage gongs
Let’s get the rebuttal out of the way first and foremost, because we can already sniff the comments from here: Trophies are a nice added extra, but no, they’re absolutely not the be all and end all. A great game with bad Trophies is still a great game. However, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect PS5 games launching...
News The Arcade-Only Rave Racer Drifts onto PS5 This Month, Console Archives Also Coming Soon
Retro wave
If Bandai Namco won't make a new Ridge Racer, we might as well have as many of the old games on modern systems as possible. Hamster Corporation is making it happen thanks to its Arcade Archives series; last year saw the arrival of the Ridge Racer, the arcade original, on PS5 and PS4, and soon its sequel, Rave Racer, is to follow. This...
