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07-31-2022, 12:12 PM
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Rock, Rock, Rockin' Rollergames...It's time to get your skates on, quite literally, (well, digitally), as the retro fun fans over at Hamster have added Nichibutsu (https://www.destructoid.com/this-weeks-arcade-archives-obscurity-is-cosmo-police-galivan/)'s whirling derby dervish Roller Jammer to PS4 and Nintendo Switch ? the latest addition to its record-breaking Arcade Archives range.
Release to arcades way back in 1984, Roller Jammer is a very loose take on the world's most complicated sport: Roller Derby. Instead of being packed out with screaming, tattoed gals sporting cool names like "Anna Geddon", this digital take on hard-hitting wheeled warfare features a bunch of boring 8-bit dudes. We were still a good six years away from the debut of the outrageous, WWE-like show Rollergames (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk6ffGStyY), and thus Roller Jammer boasts a less glamorous, simplistic take on the sport.
Check out the action in the video below, courtesy of YouTuber Old Classic Retro Gaming. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqW8NZ3bQ_8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqW8NZ3bQ_8
Perhaps understanding that it does not have tech available to recreate the ins and outs of roller derby proper, Nichibutsu chooses to play a little fast and loose with its adaptation of the sport, tasking playing with gunning through thin slaloms of flags before eventually engaging in an every-man-for-themselves race, complete with a hilarious "double lariat" maneuver. While Roller Jammer's relative obscurity makes this Arcade Archives release a little notable, ultimately it's pretty difficult to recommend this title.
Roller Jammer is available to download now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at around $8.
The post Whip it Good: Roller Jammer skates into the Arcade Archives (https://www.destructoid.com/roller-jammer-arcade-archives-hamster-retro-ps4-switch-nichibutsu/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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Rock, Rock, Rockin' Rollergames...It's time to get your skates on, quite literally, (well, digitally), as the retro fun fans over at Hamster have added Nichibutsu (https://www.destructoid.com/this-weeks-arcade-archives-obscurity-is-cosmo-police-galivan/)'s whirling derby dervish Roller Jammer to PS4 and Nintendo Switch ? the latest addition to its record-breaking Arcade Archives range.
Release to arcades way back in 1984, Roller Jammer is a very loose take on the world's most complicated sport: Roller Derby. Instead of being packed out with screaming, tattoed gals sporting cool names like "Anna Geddon", this digital take on hard-hitting wheeled warfare features a bunch of boring 8-bit dudes. We were still a good six years away from the debut of the outrageous, WWE-like show Rollergames (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk6ffGStyY), and thus Roller Jammer boasts a less glamorous, simplistic take on the sport.
Check out the action in the video below, courtesy of YouTuber Old Classic Retro Gaming. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqW8NZ3bQ_8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqW8NZ3bQ_8
Perhaps understanding that it does not have tech available to recreate the ins and outs of roller derby proper, Nichibutsu chooses to play a little fast and loose with its adaptation of the sport, tasking playing with gunning through thin slaloms of flags before eventually engaging in an every-man-for-themselves race, complete with a hilarious "double lariat" maneuver. While Roller Jammer's relative obscurity makes this Arcade Archives release a little notable, ultimately it's pretty difficult to recommend this title.
Roller Jammer is available to download now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at around $8.
The post Whip it Good: Roller Jammer skates into the Arcade Archives (https://www.destructoid.com/roller-jammer-arcade-archives-hamster-retro-ps4-switch-nichibutsu/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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