{"id":966423,"date":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","slug":"hamster-wants-to-release-hundreds-of-games-for-its-console-archives-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966423\/","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 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

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\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<\/blockquote>\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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\"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":966424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[220711,200559,269813,270,8425,53,16,15,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-966423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-console-archives","9":"tag-hamster","10":"tag-nintendo-eshop","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-retro","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-upcoming-releases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116589445016809004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}