{"id":588868,"date":"2026-05-17T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:20:27","slug":"hamster-wants-to-release-hundreds-of-games-for-its-console-archives-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588868\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamster Wants To Release Hundreds Of Games For Its Console Archives Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Hamster Corporation launched its new retro series Console Archives for the Switch 2<\/a> earlier this year, and it apparently wants this library to be even bigger than its Arcade Archives<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n

During a chat with Famitsu recently<\/a>, Hamster’s CEO and founder, Satoshi Hamada, noted how Arcade Archive’s “target of 800” retro releases should just be a “point” passed by Console Archives at some stage.<\/p>\n

While this amount of releases might be hard to believe, if any company can actually achieve this goal, it’s probably Hamster, as it has already released more than 500 titles<\/a> for its Arcade Archives series and adds new retro games on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Hamster’s CEO had to say, according to a translation by Nintendo Everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cArcade Archives had a target of 800, and we\u2019ve already done over 500. For Console Archives we want to beat that. Actually, now we feel like 800 titles should just be a point we pass along the way. Just in terms of the number of titles, there are a lot more home console games than arcade games, so we want to make a series where we can go further.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamster’s Console Archives library was launched in February 2026 with the release of Cool Boarders<\/a> and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos<\/a>. Just earlier this week, it added the “simulation war game” Master of Monsters: Disciples of Gaia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can see the other games for this expanding retro series in our guide here on Nintendo Life.<\/p>\n

Have you purchased any Console Archives games yet? What else would you like to see Hamster add to this library and Arcade Archives? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source famitsu.com<\/a>, via nintendoeverything.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamster Corporation launched its new retro series Console Archives for the Switch 2 earlier this year, and it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[152795,59,130773,1475,376,1914,86,56,54,55,377],"class_list":["post-588868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-console-archives","tag-gb","tag-hamster","tag-nintendo-eshop","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-retro","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}