Retro specialist Hamster Company has introduced the third sport in its new Arcade Archives 2 sequence, and it’s one other early polygonal Namco sport.
Hamster, which has been releasing retro arcade video games below its Arcade Archives sequence for the previous decade, launched its new Arcade Archives 2 sequence in June, beginning with the primary ever residence re-release of the unique arcade model of Ridge Racer.
It adopted this up with the first ever residence launch of Air Fight 22, and now it’s introduced that the following sport within the sequence will likely be jet ski racing sport Aqua Jet, which was launched in arcades in 1996.
Like Ridge Racer and Air Fight 22 earlier than it, Aqua Jet made use of Namco’s System 22 arcade {hardware}, which supplied texture mapped polygonal graphics at a excessive body charge.
The unique arcade cupboard for Aqua Jet had gamers standing on a big jet ski and shifting it aspect to aspect, whereas cool air blowed of their face to simulate pace.
Whereas this clearly hasn’t been replicated for the house model, it does communicate volumes about how essential it’s to see the sport getting a house port for the primary time ever, since discovering a working Aqua Jet machine is getting progressively more durable.
In line with the Video Arcade Preservation Society, of which round 10,000 members take part in a census of arcade video games owned, Aqua Jet scores 1 out of 100 for possession, which means it’s one of many least generally owned cupboards amongst lovers.
Aqua Jet will likely be launched this Thursday, August 14, and will likely be coming to Change 2, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S as an Arcade Archives 2 sport, and to Change and PS4 as an Arcade Archives sport.
Every Arcade Archives sport options Unique Mode, Excessive Rating Mode (the place you retain taking part in till you die) and Caravan Mode (the place you need to get the best rating inside a sure time), with on-line leaderboards included.
Arcade Archives 2 variations additionally add Time Assault Mode (the place you attempt to beat the total sport as shortly as doable) and Community Mode (the place you’ll be able to play on-line) when the sport helps multiplayer.
Gamers who go for the Arcade Archives 2 model can even get a number of save slots, a rewind characteristic and VRR help enabling a “extra correct copy of the unique arcade sport’s expertise”.
Up to now there have been 371 video games launched within the Arcade Archives sequence, with an extra 108 launched in a separate sequence referred to as ACA Neo Geo.
Arcade Archives 2, nevertheless – of which Aqua Jet will likely be solely the third launch – marks Hamster Company’s transfer from re-releasing sprite-based arcade video games to polygonal ones.
