Motion cabinet not included: Namco’s Metal Hawk joins the Arcade Archives

Dec 24 2022 by destructoid

 

Get to the chopper

It may be the holidays, but that isn't going to stop the retro purveyors over at Hamster from keeping the ball rolling on its Arcade Archives ranger — Joining the huge range of shumps rereleased by the publisher on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, it's Namco's unique chopper blaster, Metal Hawk.

Hitting the arcade market in 1988, Metal Hawk initially looks like standard, vertically-scrolling blaster, which were a dime a dozen in the genre's late-'80s boom period. However, Metal...

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