Curler Jammer skates into the Arcade Archives – Destructoid

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Curler Jammer skates into the Arcade Archives – Destructoid

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Rock, Rock, Rockin’ Rollergames…
It’s time to get your skates on, fairly actually, (effectively, digitally), because the retro enjoyable followers over at Hamster have added Nichibutsu‘s whirling derby dervish Curler Jammer to PS4 and Nintendo Swap — the most recent addition to its record-breaking Arcade Archives vary.
Launch to arcades method again in 1984, Curler Jammer is a really free tackle the world’s most complex sport: Curler Derby. As a substitute of being packed out with screaming, tattoed gals sporting cool names like “Anna Geddon”, this digital tackle hard-hitting wheeled warfare encompasses a bunch of boring 8-bit dudes. We have been nonetheless a superb six years away from the debut of the outrageous, WWE-like present Rollergames, and thus Curler Jammer boasts a much less glamorous, simplistic tackle the game.
Try the motion within the video under, courtesy of YouTuber Outdated Basic Retro Gaming.

Maybe understanding that it doesn’t have tech accessible to recreate the ins and outs of curler derby correct, Nichibutsu chooses to play just a little quick and free with its adaptation of the game, tasking enjoying with gunning by skinny slaloms of flags earlier than finally partaking in an every-man-for-themselves race, full with a hilarious “double lariat” maneuver. Whereas Curler Jammer‘s relative obscurity makes this Arcade Archives launch just a little notable, finally it’s fairly troublesome to suggest this title.
Curler Jammer is offered to obtain now on PS4 and Nintendo Swap, priced at round $8.

Chris Moyse

Senior Editor – Chris has been enjoying video video games because the Nineteen Eighties. Former Saturday Evening Slam Grasp. Graduated from Galaxy Excessive with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse

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