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#Whip it Good: Curler Jammer skates into the Arcade Archives

“Whip it Good: Curler Jammer skates into the Arcade Archives”

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Rock, Rock, Rockin’ Rollergames…

It’s time to get your skates on, fairly actually, (nicely, digitally), because the retro enjoyable followers over at Hamster have added Nichibutsu‘s whirling derby dervish Curler Jammer to PS4 and Nintendo Change — the newest addition to its record-breaking Arcade Archives vary.

Launch to arcades means again in 1984, Curler Jammer is a very free tackle the world’s most complex sport: Curler Derby. As an alternative of being packed out with screaming, tattoed gals sporting cool names like “Anna Geddon”, this digital tackle hard-hitting wheeled warfare incorporates a bunch of boring 8-bit dudes. We have been nonetheless a great 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.

Take a look at the motion within the video beneath, courtesy of YouTuber Outdated Traditional Retro Gaming.

Maybe understanding that it doesn’t have tech obtainable to recreate the ins and outs of curler derby correct, Nichibutsu chooses to play a little bit quick and free with its adaptation of the game, tasking enjoying with gunning by skinny slaloms of flags earlier than ultimately 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 a little bit notable, finally it’s fairly tough to advocate this title.

Curler Jammer is out there to obtain now on PS4 and Nintendo Change, priced at round $8.

Chris Moyse

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

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