Sky Skipper: Nintendo is bringing us this super rare arcade game with cusses ⊟
Out of nowhere, Nintendo announced that it’s worked with Hamster Co. to rip the arcade version of Sky Skipper and release it to the Switch eShop.
Arcade Blogger has a fantastic post providing some context:
“Sky Skipper itself was not a huge draw in Japan. Nintendo quickly discovered that the game was not being played as much as they would like for it to be a viable release. This lukewarm reception from Japanese players meant that the game was not considered for a release here in the West. It is believed that Nintendo wisely decided to convert and re-purpose its remaining Sky Skipperhardware inventory into Popeye PCBs. So as well as dedicated Popeye boards, there are a handful of ex-Sky Skipper PCBs that run the Popeye code.
Of course, what this meant was that Sky Skipper as a game, quietly disappeared and was forgotten about. Lost to history, the arcade game became the stuff of legend and nothing more than vague mentions can be found on Nintendo based forum sites over the years.”
But it’s releasing to Switch next month! Today’s Treehouse stream even revealed that the cabinet art shown above comes from Shigeru Miyamoto. Arcade Archives: Donkey Kong is also available now from the eShop!
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