Hamster's Arcade Archives release on the Nintendo Switch eShop this week is P.O.W. Prisoners of War.
It's a side-scrolling action beat 'em up by SNK that was originally released in arcades in 1988. It followed with a home console release on the NES a year later. This standalone Switch version will be available on the eShop for $7.99 / £6.29 and supports two players.
Below are some screenshots and a description of the game:
Break free from the POW camp and try to escape from the enemy base by reaching the rescue helicopter waiting in the final area.In addition to the various melee attacks carried out depending on the button combination, you can also pick up weapons dropped by enemies and use them as your own! Experience an intense jailbreak!
Will you be adding this latest Hamster release to your Switch digital library? Tell us below.
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Nice beat em up, but it’s already on the SNK Collection game that’s on Switch and PS4. Gotta pass on this.
This one I have on SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, and I gotta say it's a fun beat'em up, with weapons and military theme. One of my favorites among the 24 title collection. Won't be double dipping of course.
Way better than the NES version.
Tired of this 16 bit garbage. Can we please get some more quality n64/gamecube games to the e-shop?
Oh wow another game that is already in a collection that is available for the Switch. I would like to see some more original games that haven't seen other releases, and it would be nice if they would move on to the 90's.
@Mr_Blonde "Tired of this 16 bit garbage."
You sir are hereby banished from these parts! Be gone!
I don't think all these SNK releases are bad per se, after all people might be interested in just some of them and not the entire 24 collection. But I personally I'm waiting for Wrecking Crew and all these releases are putting it off, so it kind of bothers me. Especially when that game was announced ages ago and then disappeared from the upcoming games list and when I saw it reappear I thought it would be a one day before announcement case (it happened with other games), but it wasn't.
This is a great SNK game, but i own the 40th Anniversary Collection. Hamster is killing it with all these releases!!! I’m still hoping to see Super Punch-Out!!, Double Dragon (Neo Geo) and SVC Chaos: SNK Vs. Capcom. My dream game would be Nintendo’s Popeye, but that seems like an impossible task. I hope Hamster is able to make it happen.
I loved playing this in the Arcades as a kid, along with street fighter 2 and final fight this gives me proper old school feels 😎
I used to LOVE this game at the arcades back in the late 80s/early 90. Might have to pick this up for nostalgia sake.
@Moroboshi876 Yeah that's my feelings about it as well. It wouldn't be so annoying if it wasn't putting off games that I am actually looking forward to.
@Mr_Blonde
That depends on Nintendo and the other publishers...anyway, it's true that this game didn't Age too well, but it's not too bad...
@MotionMan
Snk vs Capcom would be great...
@vio lol, well said!
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